The police took a report and told us to file for insurance. Police usually don't do a lot of investigation into what they consider low value thefts. The GTO and early T/A fenders were pretty valuable to hobbyists, but a couple of fenders are not that important to the police.
I live 150 miles away, so my brother is handling it. I really don't know when they hit or how many times. Since mom passed away, my brother only goes by to check on the place every few days. When he arrived, he found the door to the house had been forced open, and then checked the garage and found tools and my sheet metal missing. Had they only hit the garage, I'm not sure how long before he would have discovered it.
I think my brother probably discovered the break-in the day after it happened, since the lawn mower disappeared the next day.
I'm sure the fenders were taken to the scrap yard. Since they didn't take the fenders with inner fenders, I'm guessing they were trying to get as much on there as they could. Somebody stated they probably tried to flatten the fenders out to make more room, so even if I found them they would be ruined.
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