I had a 280zxt with the motor pulled but the tranny still intact. Inside there was an ArizonaZcar AL Radiator, Triple Weber Carbs w/Cannon manifold, Stock 280zxt Radiator, a cheap stereo, a speedo cable I was going to sell, an oil temp gauge I was going to use, and it was sitting on an good set of swastika wheels...
Im gunna goto the tow yard today and get all my stuff out from inside the car, but I lose everything else like the wheels, tranny, gauge, and speedo cable unless I pay for them towing it away from the house, then storage for a day, then towing it back....
Sorry just had to vent...
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so why was it towed?
Currently own:
1990 2+2(For sale soon)
1991 TT(parts for sale)
1993 NA(parts for sale)
1993 Convertible(Converted TT)
1996 TT(with 9,124 miles on it)
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Becuase my property manager is a jerk. It was parked out of the way, and all cleaned up. Its not like it was sitting on flat tires and looked abandon or anything, but he doesnt even like the idea of people changing their oil here, so I think he was already mad at me for working on my car a bit.
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bastard... well why not change of the wheels and pull the speedo cable
( get some cheap junkyard tires orso ? )
You can sleep in your car, but cant drive in your house
if you are fully in control, you are not driving fast enough!
79 ZXR 46K!
81 ZXT EURO 2+2
83 ZXT
All fine Fastback winnabego's

I'd check your lease. If it doesnt say anything about not working on cars, or not having extra vehicles, you might have a leg to stand on.
'83 280ZX. 270k original miles. almost broken in.
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Surely they had to give you a warning of some kind...
1990 2+2 N/A
SHIFT_style

And you fault the manager for this? Thats why he is the manager and you are the renter. Next thing you know there would be 10 cars sitting out of the way just like yours. He is just keeping it clean looking most likely, but he could have at least given you some warning it would be towed unless...

If you live in an apartment building, very likely the condition of "parking spaces/carport shall be for passenger automobiles in running condition only, and used for parking purposes exclusively, not for washing or repair of such vehicles" is in your lease.
I agree that the manager could have at least give you a three day warning to get rid of the part car before having it towed. You must have annoyed/angered him in some way.
Where I live, towing is about $45 bucks, it's the storage fee that the towing company make their money on (range from $125-$250 per day). Yikes!
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1975 280Z (Stock)
303 Emerald Green

I had a land lady that was like that. She hated that I worked on my Z in my front yard, and threatened to have it towed if it ever stayed in the same place for more than a week. Find a loop hole in the contract, contact a lawyer and talk to him about it, then give the manager the lawyers card and ask him to return the car at no cost to you. If he refuses, tell him call your lawyer to discuss deducting the cost of towing it back out of your rent.
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77 280Z - TEC3 Engine Management, Coil Packs, 3.1 Stroker, 550CC injectors, tripple throttle body FI intake, MSA Stage II Cam, etc...etc...
79 Fairlady - Rusty
81 280ZX - DD

You can go get the car if you have ownership, a way to go get it & a place to keep it. The land lord has the authority to have non-running, unlicensed cars towed from his property but that doesn't affect ownership. You'll have to cover the tow bill & storage charge. The tow place doesn't likely want an old Z.
Anyone can drive a new car.

what bastard that property manager, someone should kick his asssssss
73' 240z: F54 4.2L, OS Giken LY DOHC Crossflow head, 17:3comp.ratio, N33, Tripple SU's, T10 Hybrid Draw-Through TT @ 47pds, Roots&Centrifugal Type supercharger, 3-2-1 headers, Centerforce 4 clutch, 6oz flywheel, R300 differential, Super-Hicas

Loaded up your Anti-Lion Rock into the Trebuchet, and launched it at the maurauding hoard that stole your parts car!
People Are Idiots, Just look around here and you will see!
Tony D: "Knowledgeable but Caustic"... rationull
My brother from another mother calls himself "Willie D"

The tow drivers in Chicago kept a shot gun with them. When in the office, they were behind a thick glass & had a shot gun. Friend of mine owned a body shop & had his car booted. Went to the shop, got his torch, cut the boot off & drove away leaving the boot. Go get your car. Got title?
Anyone can drive a new car.

Yeah, I have the title and yes it had a current regestration. That is that part that made me mad. Im sure I was in some sort of violation, but I was checking it every day and they never even put a warning on it. They also towed my 510 out of my driveway! I am not going to get a lawyer involved, I would surely lose becuase I cant prove that they didnt put a warning on it. Also My landlord would get hell from the property manager, and that just wouldnt be right, he has been really good to me. I went to the tow yard today and got everything I could, which means I lost the tranny, speedo cable, oil gauge, wheels, and cheap stereo. They wouldnt let me take anything that was attatched to the car.
Also, I had to pay the tow charges and 1 day of storage fee and a tow charge to a wrecking yard. They said that if I just left it there they would just send me a bill after 45 days for storage and towing, then send me to collections. It all came out to about $240.. what a pain in the ass.
I would have used my anit lion rock, but they towed that too! JK
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"You should've Loaded up your Anti-Lion Rock into the Trebuchet, and launched it at the maurauding hoard that stole your parts car!"
Oh, come on, next thing you're going to tell us it's not a good idea to block off the coolant bypass hose! lol

You went and paid $ and still didn't get the stuff off of your car? There would be a big ass sticky zone on your windshield or something from the warning sticker. When my DSM fell on my foot and put me in the hospital, it was sitting on it's side sorta cuz the front driver wheel was off and it was resting on the suspension on the ground. After a few weeks they put a big bright orange sticker on it saying if it wasnt fixed it'd be towed. They make really sticky stickers for that situation so you can't easily just snatch it off.

did you get everuthing else? carbs? rad.?
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1981 n/a 280zx
1952 m38a1 jeep willy's
1971 fairlady 240z
95 300zx N/A
72 240z

This wasnt the local PD that towed it, it was the propertly manager. The notices are little slips of paper that the put under your windsheild wiper that someone can easily take. Also we have had alot of storms lately and they could say it got blown off and its not their fault.
They let me take everything that was not attatched to the car. So I got my Nissan Comp Headers, Triple carbs, Canon intake, AL Radiator, Stock Radiator, Some steel braided lines, and some other stuff that was being stored inside the car. I lost the tranny, speedo cable, power antenna, gauges, windsheild washer pump, swastika rims, and a couple of CD's I forgot to get.
Its not the worst that could have happened, but its still a big annoyance. By the way, does anyone have a stock '83 oil temp/pressure gauge they want to sell me? That was one thing that I actually needed.
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you paid them, you own the car, and they wouldn't let you take whatever you wanted from it? that's pretty ****ed up. if you paid for towing and storage you should have been able to take the entire car if you wanted to.
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'05 350Z Chrome Silver Touring
'73 240Z

Where is the car at? I need a good set of swastica wheels for my '82.
'82 280ZX N/A Coupe
K&N Filter
Flowmaster Muffler
15" Turbo Wheels
260Z Leather Seats
"23years, and 322k miles and still going, and going, and going,..."
'83 280ZX N/A Coupe (parts car)

Sounds like its time to:
1) raise hell, who cares how "nice" they've been
2) move out
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1982 280zx

Get a friend & go get the car. I'll let you store it at my place in the country. No zoning & it's mine so no land lord. Where is it?
Anyone can drive a new car.

get your car back. Cut out all tracable numbers pull your parts drop it on his driveway and let him deal with it. That'll cost him around 70 bux to get rid of it to most places. Technically he can't remove it. He'll have to pay someone to have it legally removed. Just make sure it doesn't look like the car you had at you place. Spray cans, sledge hammer, saw, etc... You get the idea. I knew someone that was forced to deal with getting rid of 3 abandoned vans on their property. Tow yards don't want to remove junk unless you are willing to pay them for it to be moved.
Ray

Well, they would have towed it anywhere I wanted, but I didnt want to take it home just to have it towed again. Its gone now though. Im just gunna cut my loses and deal with it. I got the most important stuff out of there. Although I do like the idea of cutting off the VIN # and droping it on the managers lawn. LOL
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Um...is it just me or does this sound like a load of crap what he did. He had a car towed from a resident he rents. Check your residential rights as a renter and then call the police. Pay to get your car back and charge the hell out of him. Hence your private property despite being on his land. Would this not consitute being fraud to act as owner to have it towed, trespassing on private property ( he does have to give you notice of what he intends to do on the property you own/lease/rent ) when you are not present or not? Last of all your car was not towed by anyone. That is simply called theft. Legally I can put my car in your driveway and if you tow it I can land you in court for touching it. You would need a court order if I am not correct to remove someone elses property. If he didn't like it he should have kicked you off the property rather than be a freak and remove your car and break the law. Even then you would have to abandon the car and go through the proper channels.
...whatta moron...my thoughts anyhow
RHD 1990 TT 2+2 5spd Black...

All right - so much for opinions: now get an opinion that counts.
Legal Aid - get a Lawyers Advice from your area:
1. Find out what your rentsers rights are.
2. What is your recourse to the Owner of the property - the manager is his agent and the owner is ultimately at fault if there is fault?
3. What is your recourse to the towing company and storage lot?
4. Don't assume anything get facts.
5. Small Claims Court - in Texas $35 to filre; no lawyers; takes cases up to $5000 - the rule of law is Preponderance of Evidence - the more paperwork you have to show the other guy is wrong , you should be able to win.
6. Don't complain on this forum - get to work and get your car back.
7. Send me your address and I'll bill you for consultations fee. (Add that to your leagal damage claim).
Ed and Jeanne's
ZXelda 1981 280 ZXT: ZXena 1990 300 ZX
1941 Buick Special Sedanette (Betty)
1956 Dodge Royal (Dorothy)
1971 Buick Riviera (Rita)
1975 Ford F-150 Stepside (Fiona)
1992 Firebird (Frieda)

You own the car. When it towed to the salvage yard go there and get the parts you want. Tell the guys at the yard they can have the rest of the car for scrap or whatever they want to do with it once you get your parts out of it. I can't see them being dicks enough to tell you no especially since you hold the title.
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77 280Z - TEC3 Engine Management, Coil Packs, 3.1 Stroker, 550CC injectors, tripple throttle body FI intake, MSA Stage II Cam, etc...etc...
79 Fairlady - Rusty
81 280ZX - DD

"The jokes are appreciated by those who read!"
LOL
Glad to see more than one person captured the reference!
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Tony D: "Knowledgeable but Caustic"... rationull
My brother from another mother calls himself "Willie D"

You should have taken your parts, dude! They snowed you.
What you do is pay your fines and fees, push it to the curb, remove what you want from it, then sign the pink slip over to the twoing company.
They will sell it---which is what they will do anyway. Did you transfer title to them when you left it on their property?
If not, you can STILL be "put to collection" which is a B.S. threat. The NEVER do that!
What they do is send you lein notices, and 30 days later they auction the vehicle for fees owed. That's how they make their money.
You fell for their lie. Too bad. You could have recovered many parts.
But now, all you have is what you got, and the reassuring knowledge that the vehicle is still yours, but you have no idea where it is or how it's being used.
Whenever you leave a car, leave the signed title with whoever has it, and get a signed release of liability from them!
Search here, and see what happens two years down the road when you sell your car to a "passing black gentleman" and then he up and gets it impounded...after never registering or transferring title to his name!
People Are Idiots, Just look around here and you will see!
Tony D: "Knowledgeable but Caustic"... rationull
My brother from another mother calls himself "Willie D"

"You would need a court order if I am not correct to remove someone elses property."
You are incorrect. There are clauses about parking on private property which allow it to be towed. No court order necessary. If it's there 72 hours, it's subject to tow. And if it's there for longer than that wihout your permission, it's subject to lein and impound for fees.
People Are Idiots, Just look around here and you will see!
Tony D: "Knowledgeable but Caustic"... rationull
My brother from another mother calls himself "Willie D"

Well, like I said before, Im sure that I was in some sort of a violation that would allow a legal tow. Im not so much looking for advice, just venting frustration.
Yeah, in retrospect, I should have had them tow the car back to my house, or just push it to the curb and striped it then gotten rid of it, but I was just to frustrated with the whole thing at the time, the option never occured to me.
As far as my landlord goes, Ive said it before and Ill say it again, he is a great guy. I told him about what the property manager did and told him that I probably was in violation, but I was upset that they never even gave a warning notice. He apoligised for the whole thing, gave me $100 out of his own pocket, and said he would take it up with the property manager and try to get the rest of my money back.
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When I was renter scum, I had an a$$hole property manager named bud. Alcoholic old dude named "Bud" had uric acid deposits that needed to be drained all the time---"Popeye's Elbows"...
Anyway, I had a parts car there, and it drove him NUTS that I would go out in the middle of the night, and move it a few parking spaces this way or that, or park it on the street.
Under a locked car cover.
It was LaHabra, and we needed a "parking permit" for street parking, which I paid for on another vehicle, and simply spraypainted the license number and parking permit on the car cover to keep the city from towing it when it was on the street.
He NEVER actually saw the car running, occasionally he saw me pushing it from here to there, but when he came up and "demanded" to prove to him it ran I basically told him to "FOAD"--I was "busy" and wasn't going down and firing it up just to make him happy, it was licensed, registered (it wasn't) and besides, it's a PITA to get the lock back on the cover!
But under the car cover, nobody knows what's inside. If it's a roller, it becomes very difficult to tow or prove non-operational status if you are even moderately careful.
Jut something to keep in mind while living as a "renter"...
People Are Idiots, Just look around here and you will see!
Tony D: "Knowledgeable but Caustic"... rationull
My brother from another mother calls himself "Willie D"

Thats a good idea, thanks.
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There are ordinances in this area about junk cars. If I wanted to have a parts car, I would need to have plates on it or have a car cover. They will send you a letter asking you to remove it, and if you don't they can take legal action against you.
Theres are a couple around here I'd like to have but this series of ordinances
is stopping me.
76', 4 Speed, CAI, 6 into 2 Headers
Of all the things I've lost in life I miss my mind the most.