Bob Russell was reunited with his beloved Austin Healey after 42 years.
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美國一位男子與他被盜的跑車重新團聚。Bob Russell 最后一次見到他的車是近42年前，盜賊趁他外出時從他位于費城的家里偷走了這輛跑車。他是怎樣找回心愛的車？請聽BBC記者 Janet Barrie 發回的報道：
Bob Russell says he never gave up the search for his beloved 1967 Austin-Healey. One day in 1970, when he was a student in Philadelphia, he came home after a night out with the woman who's now his wife, and realised his car had vanished. Nearly 42 years later Mr Russell was browsing the online marketplace eBay when he spotted something familiar.
All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey.
Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimental value it held for him and his wife.
Glossary 詞匯表 （點擊單詞收聽發音）
- gave up the search放棄搜尋
- beloved心愛的
- vanished 消失了
- browsing瀏覽
- online marketplace網上購物市場
- registration number車牌號
- long-lost遺失多年的
- dealership經銷商
- sentimental 有感情的
