That's my stolen NSX that was recovered after the Insurance paid out
Sorry I didn't see this posting earlier - but that's my stolen '95 NSX-T that was recovered after the Insurance paid out. The car was stolen out of my driveway overnight about 8 weeks ago and recovered the day after the insurance paid out and they took over ownership. I was told that it was recovered in a chop shop sting operation just before it was going to be chopped.
The car should have around 75K miles on it. I was told that my car was recovered intact with minor damage: The antenna was broken off and the rear reflector by the trunk latch with the NSX logo was knocked off.
Despite having a CA salvage title hung on it as a theft recovery, the car was never wrecked, and never raced, and had two legitimate owners (myself and the original owner who was a famous Apollo 8 astronaut named William Anders). He had the car from '95 to 2003, and I had it from 2003 until it was stolen in early March of this year. The car is due for a timing belt and water pump replacement.
So despite the salvage title, if one could get the car for under $20K at auction, that is probably quite a bit below it's actual intrinsic value, given that it's a fairly low mileage 2 owner car that has never been wrecked nor raced. I suspect that the damage the car incurred during the theft was less than $1000, as it was strictly cosmetic stuff.
FYI, The insurance valued it at $27,953 when they paid it off, and my research told me that was probably a reasonably accurate number.