A movie prop maker who turned her Kia Soul into a “Ghostbusters” themed car during the pandemic found her version of the Ecto-1 to be stolen on Monday afternoon.
Erica Nese told KTLA that someone attempted to break into her car last week by putting a screwdriver in the keyhole.
She was going to the mechanic to get the car fixed on Monday when she went down to the parking garage underneath her Silver Lake apartment building, however, her lime green “Ecto Kia” was nowhere to be found.
“It’s really beautiful…it’s a work of art [that] took me about four or five years,” she said. “But it’s looking very pretty, and it’s not done yet, so I just want the car back so I can keep working on it.”
“It’s like my child,” she added.
Other cars in the parking structure were also broken into, Nese said. Her apartment complex’s parking garage does have a locked gate and requires a code to get in, but the thief somehow managed to enter anyway.
No description of a suspect has been released.
Nancy Fontan and Patrick Kightlinger contributed to this report.