The genuine bright pink Torana GTR XU1 – a car now worth over $150,000 – was discovered as part of an investigation into a vehicle re-birthing syndicate which would restore and modify stolen performance cars, including altering the VIN, before passing them off as genuine to unsuspecting buyers.
After years of painstaking work into uncovering and busting the syndicate, Detective Senior Constable Brett Florence – a noted car enthusiast himself who headed the investigation into the syndicate when he was attached to the Vehicle Crime Squad in 2014 – was able to get in touch with one of these unsuspecting buyers who had bought a number of the unknowingly stolen cars the syndicate had sold between 2008 and 2011, and one of those he'd purchased was Carol's XU1.
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