Hot Rods Help!! A fellow hamber and good friend is down and needs our help.HE GOT ROBBED!

This really sucks. I hope you find them. Are there any self storage places within that short radius of your shop that they could get to in the time frame they did? I ask because if it was residential, the noise would piss off most neighbors. Those storage lots are accessible 24 hours in some places.
Guys rent a storage (free or just $99) for the first month..pull a job or 2, work out of there for a month, empty it and forget about it..
They need to use a keypad with code to get in, I would think possibly the place may have a record of that. If not, they have cameras too.
Also Pomona swap is this next weekend 24th and 25th. I'll keep an eye out for the stuff.

I agree the guys knew you, and have been in the shop before. they knew you were gone. Think of all the people that would possibly be mad at you. These guys were not just stealing, they were hoping to clean you out and put you out of business.
The part of assembling the car to move it makes me think that. Most thieves grab the easy shit they can sell off, who puts a car together to take it? I mean a 63 Rivi is cool and all, but not easy to hide, or flip...
They had a plan, they were organized.
They thought they were smart, but you have the stuff to hopefully ID them.

 

Man do i know how it feels to get shit stolen.Good luck

 

I keep checkin this everyday hoping that you recovered your stuff.
I know the feeling as i had my house robbed 2 times, only this must be worst because of all the effort you put into your work.
Unfortunateley as of today i dont even have change for sigarettes (really ), but if i get back to my feet soon i'll send whatever i can to you.
Best of luck mate!
^^^Mark dude, same for you!^^^

 

bumb for the afternoon! Sticky! sticky! sticky!

Been scouring craigslist and other local ads incase it has made its way south at all. Keep us on the up and up!

 

Ok, I created a 1 page flyer. See attached. Help spread the word!

 

I'll be at the April Run in Laughlin next week, I sent you an email, email me one back and I'll put one on my hot rod while I'm there.

 

Rachelle, thank you for making the flier and posting it!!

 

Printed out the Flier and Posting at our shop for you. We are only a few hours south of you so we will get the word out.

 

So far the only news I have is that I talked to the cops yesterday and they say they have a partial license plate number and they are going to see what they can do with it (from the surveillance).

I want to thank every body who is helping, sending money to my paypal, buying T-shirts, one of you guys sent me a set of brand new snap-on wrenches in the mail, a lot of you guys are offering to let me borrow tools until I get my self in to a situation where I can buy some of my own again, hell some of you guys are offering to just right out give me tools! Every body is willing to help keep their eyes and ears open for stuff that was taken. Phone calls from complete strangers asking if there is anything they can do.
I never thought that there would be such a huge response and so much help, we live in a pretty messed up world but there are a lot more good people out there than I thought. I talked to my Dad today, who lives in Kentucky, and told him about this. He was speechless, he said things like this don't happen any more. Well they do, amazingly. My wife was never real happy with me sitting on the computer looking on the HAMB, well after I showed her this thread a few days ago and let her read this and showed he the contributions to my paypal and orders for T-shirts (sofar almost $1400) she sat staring at the monitor and started crying. She said that she did not understand this, but that she was wrong about the HAMB. Well all I can say is that the HAMB and the car community is more of a family than I ever expected it to be. All the guys I meet at shows, shake hands, say "what's up?", have a short conversation with, all people that I don't even know, I owe you all a big thank you.

The HAMB family is just that, a family!

Thanks guys.

 

Johnny,
Just sent some scratch to help out. CrossMembers and other HAMBers nationwide are praying for you and your family.

Brent

 

I think that someone needs to call the FBI. rod shops all over the country are getting hit with the same MO.

Shop three blocks from me got hit a couple years ago. he has three buildings less than 150 feet from his bedroom. they cleaned out all his tools (left the boxes) took equipment, then pulled dashes, carbs, then went from building to building, then cut the locks on an enclosed trailer. pulled the hood on an early vette stole the blower, injection, and the brain under the seat. must have been in there for hours. his two dogs never heard a thing.

local cops said he was the 3rd shop in a 40 mile radius that got totally cleaned out.
you know if you take that stuff cross the country to swap meets and Craigs list. the chance of finding it is nil. I think there is some out of work NASCAR or NHRA mechanics that are fast and good that travel around the country.

20 years ago I did all the glass repair on a jewelery store that got hit in daylight, came in shooting the armed security officer and one of the jewelers that went for a alarm. FBI was there and said that group was hitting major cities around the country. they knew that one person was casing these spots but sometimes took 6 months to a year before hitting. so stakeouts were useless.

sorry about your friend. my friend's homeowners policy took care of much of his personal and most of the customer cars were owner covered. He's out of business now but has a good alarm service and insurance. a tough lesson for anyone

 

sorry to hear about your misfortune,i've made a phone call to a very good friend well connected in San jose to keep ears /eyes open. we'll see

 

sucks to read amything like this. I'm going to talk ask my gf which style shirt she wants when she gets home from work today, that way i can help out at least a little bit. good luck catching the scumbags, hopefully they get what they deserve

 

the hamb rules
thanxs

 

ok san jose , here's an idea ! tommorrow ( sunday ) a few of us strangers are getting together to do sum trophy making and such , anyways we are gathering up sum extra tools and what not for johnny ... so if any of you want to do the same , call me and i get you the address....thanks , scotty 408-316-2953 .......

 

bump 4 sunday

 

Man that sucks. I wish that I could do something. BUMP

 

Bringing this back up. I heard this http://cbs5.com/local/san.francisco.police.2.1640504.html on the radio and thought of your shop. maybe worth a look....

 

Yeah, I'll see what I can find out through the SJPD office tomorrow, thanks.

 

Johnny, only now got to this thread. Can't believe everything that's going down. Hang in there bruthah and drop me a line!

Much Aloha, Jason.

 

Johnny, any news ??? did you get them ? date me up, please...... ;-))

 

Nothing at all, the cops said that they have a partial license-plate number off of one of the cars from the surveillance video but they can't guarantee any thing, they have a detective investigating. It's been almost three weeks, if you ask me, I think it's been to long and the car/bikes/tools/equipment are long gone at this point. At first I was hoping that somehow at least one of the vehicles would turn up, but I think it's not gonna happen. The whole thing is very frustrating and depressing. On the other hand I'm trying to figure out how to get the shop going again. One thing is for sure, I'm not staying at the same location, even though the rent was cheap that area is just a little to shady. I've looked at three shop this week where the rent was reasonable but they were to small. So I'll keep looking.

 

hey johnny i was talking to some sonoma county buddies and we may have some stuff to scrounge up for you. do you have an updated list of what you need or would like? pm me if you want, i can see what we can do!

 

thanks Bryon, but at this point I seem to have most of the tools that I'm gonna need, That is I have friends offering to let me use their tools until I get my own again, some guys are actually donating tools and it seems that I'm pretty well covered. I just need to go pick up all the stuff from all the people as soon as I get a shop, I have no room to store all the stuff at my house.

 

no worries, if theres anything we can do to help let us know. god knows ive moved a few shops before lol

 

bttt

really hope this all works out...

 

keep my fingers crossed !!!!!! hope you get a new garage soon, man !!!!! back to work ! the world needs good cars !!!!!!!!! ;-)) bump

 

Way to get back up and at it. Stay positive, and stay motivated- something good will come of it!

 

Any news in the past few days, Johnny?

 

yes positive
remember were here if we ca help johnny