Back when I was working with auto insurance a customer put in a claim for their stolen car and was promptly paid.  About a year later they got notice from a police department that they had recovered the engine to that car wanting to know if they wanted it.  So he contacted us, he didn’t want just the engine, so the insurance company claimed it since they actually now owned it.  It recouped some of what they paid out for the car.  I guess the car wasn’t shipped overseas.  I thought of this after a friend of mine went to a chop shop and got a new muffler worth $600 for $140, no VIN# on mufflers.