I had a 64 Wood Wheel stolen from my parts collection back in the 1978 time frame.
I had engraved a special logo on the inside of the wheel horn ring.
I saw the wheel some years later at a swap meet in the city and asked a cop who was working the event to help me get my wheel back. I showed him the special mark inside the wheel and he said you might have looked at the wheel 20 minutes earlier and then
claimed the wheels was yours based on the mark.
Your Word vs the Seller's word. And then he said if you engraved your SS Number inside the wheel that does not mean that you did not sell the wheel at some point and had a chance to get the wheel back by claiming it was stolen.
Without a Police Report and Pictures of the part, your word against the guy currently possessing the wheel. And Possession is 9/10s of the law.
Really sad, sorry to hear about OMT's loss.
Tom V.
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