Most car enthusiasts see their performance vehicles as evolving projects they just never quite finish — but as the IKEA effect suggests, that unfinished business only makes them more attached to the end result. An Instagram car influencer from Los Angeles woke up on April 2 at 3 a.m. to find her modified Nissan 370Z stolen, and after realizing the police weren’t quite up to the task, she took the investigation into her own hands — and what she discovered was, unfortunately, not the kind of “build progress” anyone wants.
The influencer goes by the username Keiko on Instagram. In her explanation online, she said her car was stolen in Pasadena, and even when she made a public plea for information about her red 370Z, she admitted she wouldn’t be surprised if she eventually found it “parted out” by the side of the road somewhere in downtown LA.
