So, my 1988 765tic was parked for 7 years in the parking-lot of our church while I was off doing the voodoo that I do in OIF/OEF/OND for Uncle Sam.

Fast foreword to last Saturday, the second day I was back on the road and blew my water pump, and was getting a tow from AAA.

I tell the driver to hook on the tow hooks behind the covers in the front facia, he pops the panels off and tells me "there are no hooks back there."

I crawl under and sure enough my TWO tow hooks are gone! Only clean spots where they were.
I know they were there because I distinctly remember removing them, sand blasting them and painting them with a little bit of POR-15 I had left over from another project. And there is a rather distinct spot where the were...

Now today, I crawl under to do an oil change and go to remove my belly pan (splash guard) is also gone, and recollect that it was not there when I was doing the water pump replacement.

So whoever took them had to be a fellow Volvo owner, as these things are just too specific to be a random theft.

Very odd, and disheartening to think a fellow owner would do such a thing!

Woke up this morning, three screws neatly removed and the turn signal lens from the passeger side gone. I guess someone is having a hard time finding the lens that I now have to replace. This really sucks.

Seven years in a public parking lot? A 740/760 owner probably thought it was a donor car that wouldn't sell and taking a couple of 'non-critical' parts wouldn't make any difference in the bid price.

Had you done the same around a large city, I doubt that you would have more than a shell left, if that much.

You could look locally at every 740/760 and check the tow hooks and leave a message on the windshield if you find some nicely painted ones :>)

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Klausc, a Volvoholic