Gas Cap thief

i can stand thieves!!! makes me madder then dog shittin tacks!!! like to cut there fucking hands off!!

 

Atleast they didn't siphon your gas or pour sugar or salt. You need a locking gas cap!

 

Out on the salt at Bonneville a couple of weeks ago, two old gents drove up and parked their shiney, viper red, '37 Ford pickup next to me at the pits. I noted that the gas cap was missing, and mentioned it to the driver, who figured some thief had stolen it.

By then the salt kicked up by his tires had accummulated a little on the gas filler end and probably some had gone into the gas tank as well. It's not just that the thief took a hard-to-find original gas cap, but he could have ruined someone's engine as well!

 

I believe in Karma, I'll tell you a sweet story of honesty. One year, ironically at Carlisle Big John bought something, he and the vendor shot the breeze for a long time.

Then John went on his merry way and ventured back to get something to eat. When he went to pay for his food he noted a 100 dollar bill and said:
OH Shit! He knew he should not have a one -hundred dollar bill anymore after buying from the vendor.

hmmm, so off he went back to the vendor. He never paid the man cos they got to talking and both just forgot to exchange the money. I will tell you this the Vendor had not a clue when John told him he never paid him and even asked john if he was sure and boy was that man ever so thankful of Big John's honesty!

I will continue to believe what goes around comes around.

 

Nobody named Meth addicts as suspects. They will take your $800.00 gas cap and sell it for $5.00 or do $1,000.00 damage to your dashboard so they can sell your radio for $5.00. They also steal a lot of gas from truck owners. I am an old grouch still wondering if Karma exists.

 

""I am an old grouch still wondering if Karma exists""

You are not the only "old Grouch" wondering about Karma, in clude me..I had some parts stolen from me when I was a kid, broke my heart..I found out about five years later who took them and it surprised me that a grown person could stoop that low..Along with other stuff its a wonder I haven't gone "postal"..

 

Still Running, the local news hasn't said anything about this incident. They said a '93 Corvette was stolen from a parking lot and a bag of Corvette jewlery was taken from a vendor. Guess they don't want stories like this getting around. BTW, I had a similar thing happen to me as your buddy Big John. I bought a magneto at Hershey, talked to the guy for a while and walked away leaving my digital camera lay. Went back some time later when I realised it was gone and he was saving it for my return. He could have just as easy said it wasn't there. Thieves suck!

 

I don't know what's more fucked up. The guy that stole the gas caps or the fact that the damn things are worth up to a $1000.

 

People take shit just to be dicks. Last fall my buddy set up at Hershey.. now all he does is put out photo books and lists of the cars we have for sale, so he can walk around himself and help another buddy sell his crap... well, someone stole both photo albums. I had a nice older binder for mine that came originally from some Rochester Gas & Electric project, I got at a car dealer closing auction with a shop manual stuck in it. Don't even know where I'd begin to find a replacement just like it, so this year it's a crappy Wal-mart one. The RS&E one was nice because the bars to hold the pages were flat instead of round. Cost us each about $40 a shot to replace the books. And they have no real resale value, I can only figure some cheapskate asshole who insisted I sell them parts off some car or other recognized the stuff and stole them to be a dick.

If I send my book with him this year it's going to go with a swingset chain through it to tie it to the table -

 

The gas cap for a '64-'65 Deluxe Ranchero with the chrome handle trim goes for $175-$300 on fleecebay. Because of that, and even before online auctions meant easy money for easy theft items, I bolted mine on from the backside and moved the filler to the bed. For a Corvette, I'd run a repro cap at the shows for any time that my eyes weren't on the car, put the original on only for judging. Same for any car with a hard to find cap.

-KK

 

Someone might indeed think just that. A guy at a show came by and wanted to buy the stainless windshield trim on my 51 Ford F-1. Told him no thanks. He came back later and made a second pitch. He was restoring one and needed it badly. I told him no thanks and I didn't think it would be that hard to find one at a swap meet or somewhere. Later I was talking to some guys across the lot and I spot this asshole heading for my truck with a screwdriver! I headed him off and told him if that screwdriver touched my truck he'd be taking it home up his ass. He cussed me out and informed me that my truck was a "hotrod" and I didn't need it as bad as he did. Now I'm a pretty easy going guy but, if my buddys hadn't coraled me and separated us, I'd have gone to jail cuz I totally lost it. The nerve of some people.....

 

That sob needed a good old beating. I done think my buddy could of held me back. I know how hard it is to get the trim in the rubber.

Stealing must has been the think that weekend in Pa. 8-27-8-29. I was at another show were someone hitting one of the vendors in the middle of the night. I heard they got about $3000.00 in new parts.

 

My '67 Pontiac 2+2 has a rear wheel opening molding that is made in three pieces. The right front piece is missing, someone "liberated" it a few years ago at a event. They fit only 67-68 big cars, but most are damaged beyond usage.

I as still looking for one, without any success for about five years. I refuse to pay the extortion prices that some vendors want for this piece. Like a hundred bucks.......

 

Wow...holy crap!..Thats messed up...I think i would have had myself and hopefully some of my friends to help this guy make it home before he did something stupid, if you get my drift?

I think i would have watched what he drove in with, and got a plate number , just in case something ever came up missing in the future..or tailed him home , so i would have a location for other possible stolen shit..If someone has the stupidity to act like that, im sure he's done this before, and may be in posession of stolen property

the nerve of some jerks

 

"He cussed me out and informed me that my truck was a "hotrod" and I didn't need it as bad as he did."

NOW THAT is insane! Some people shouldn't be allowed out of the looney farm!

 

Thats crazy, most of my buddies would have helped me turn him into an oil slick on the pavement. Its everywhere, back a few years ago at the Turkey Run in Daytona some azzhole unscrewed the main power window control on a friends 53 Caddie and cut the whole wire harness that went to it and walked off with the control panel, we were walking around the swap meet and no one near the car even knew till we got back, he was pizzed enough to kill. Spike

 

This has got me wondering: How do you prevent thieves from taking parts off your car at night when it's parked at a hotel and you're sleeping? Do you have to remove hubcaps, skirts, bumperss, trim etc when you park it? Do you sleep in your car?

 

Get a 12' length of chain and tether my dog to it,

or curl up in a lawn chair with S&W..locked and loaded..

trip wire tied to my big toe..leading into my room

seriously though..in this world we live in today , its almost impossible to go anywhere without a camera watching you, Im surprised as much theft is getting pulled off as there is..There isnt a 100% fail safe way to secure anything except for being in the right place when the theif decided to pounce..They are playing the law of averages, you just need to narrow the margin a bit more on them.

 

Thiefs are at any event you attend. Lots of people, lots of cars, easy pickings! Daytona Bike week is hit hard every year. Each morning you would see in the paper "8 bikes stolen", "6 bikes stolen". One year, I think 96, they even stole a police bike while the cop was writing parking tickets to other bikes! ( I hate a thief, but that was funny!)
Motel parking lots are horrible. They cut the straps on my wife's saddle bags (they didn't even unbuckle them) at a motel parking lot in PA and stole over $700 of riding gear. Hell, she's a size 2, who the hell could wear it! Worst part was she had to find replacement stuff for the trip home!

 

^That was always my biggest fear when traveling to/from shows. Ain't got not hood....somebody could just come along and steal my entire motor if they wanted.

 

when i Get My A on the road im mostly worried about my Aluminum goodies walking off...Thickstun air cleaners, Finned Covers, Gas Caps, Mirrors, little ods and ends..but they add up..to big $

 

Had that happen at a gas pump, while i was inside the gas station paying for fuel. Wish I could have curb stomped the jerk.

 

Kustom Komet
Try finding one for a 63 Ranchero !!!!

 

In Calif, it's even worse. When some puke steals your gas cap, it turns your 'check engine light' on... And driving it like that can pollute the air!

Seriously, I'm not good when catching a thief. I've worked hard for years at 'self control', for I was murderous when provoked. I was visiting a friend one night, we were watching 77 Sunset Strip. I would hear a slight 'creak' every now and then...out front, where his '55 Plymouth kustom was parked in front of the house.
I said, "Leroy, I think someone's stealing your hub caps!" Leroy slipped out the side door, sure enough, some jerk was sitting at the left front, his head underneath the fender (Tight fit, that sucker was LOW!) and screw-driver prying off the caps. He had 3 of the '57 Vette caps off already, so Leroy gets right behind him, and yells, "HEY!"
The guy hit his head on the fenderwell hard enough to knock him stupid, and Leroy dragged him out, fisted him good. We talked it over, what did we want to do with him...The guy was 18, Leroy had his wallet, and gave me his knife...I tied him behind the car, ankles with clothesline rope...Leroy fired the car up, and started up the street. This pig was screamin' bloody murder, (only dragged him 40 feet more or less) so Leroy stopped, we took his shoes off, and took him back to the house. I called the cops, and they wasted no time in getting there. The guy starts telling the cop what we did, and the cop said "Shut up, or I'll give you back to 'em."
I kept the jerk's knife. Leroy had to let the cop take the Corvette caps for 'evidence', and didn't get 'em back 'til after the San Jose Autorama. He borrowed a set from Teddy DeMello...(wonder where those came from...)

 

^LMAO oh man the guy must have thought he was getting lynched.

 

these posts always crack me up. all these tough guy tales of beatings or the desire to do the same.

how come no one ever comes here and tells the tale of how they caught someone stealing and the thief beat the crap out of them? what about a nice prison term for assault for beating a petty thief that the cops could care less about? criminals have more rights than honest citzens... unless you're in Texas.

my daily driver got stolen a few years back. when I would tell the tale to my friends I would always finish the story with "it could have been worse, I could have caught them".

 

Believe it or not, I bought one of those from the Australian eBay. They used the same cap on their wagons and utes, and they are more common and less expensive down under.

-KK

 

Good to Know
Thanks
FK

 

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