Gread auto theft
When Andy Sanders and his girlfriend Kate – now his wife – went to live in Canada for a year back in 2006 they quickly realised they would need transportation. “We went out from the UK on a year-long working visa,” remembers Andy, “and soon needed a car to drive about in. I saw this 1969 Dodge Monaco Brougham hardtop on eBay. It had belonged to two old ladies from new, then to a guy named Tommy who lived near us in Vancouver. My friend Nick had a 1969 Chrysler Newport and I’d always admired that car, so I became the Monaco’s third owner for $2000. My first car was a two-litre Austin Montego, but my second was a black 1978 Trans Am. When the engine blew in the Pontiac I sold it for parts and put that money into the Monaco.
“We’d moved into a rented basement suite in North Vancouver. On the way back after collecting the Dodge, smoke started pouring out
