Slightly OT: Green Mamba Stolen

All you Florida HAMBers need to be on the lookout for info about this. It's a sad day when a piece of racing history gets lost like this. Here's a link to the St Pete Times article.


http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/28/Tampabay/Man_sadden_over_loss_.shtml

 

fucking shit man...not like you can scour ebay for "jet car parts"

even the lowest form of scum, a thief, should have enough decency to just leave it in a parking lot somewhere and go steal something that someone's insurance money can replay....at the fucking very least...

there should be not only the death penalty for thieves but torture before hand.

 

What the fuck are they gonna do with that?? Cant drive it, cant sell the parts, cant hide it for 10 years and people will forget about it.
Ass monkeys thats what the thief/s are.
They need to be tied to that thing by their balls and dragged along the 10 mile run at Bonneville.
I hope it is returned.
Doc.

 

Exactly, what use is this to anyone? It's not the normal crackhead theft, I'm at a loss for words.

 

Some sob needs their nuts cut off!

 

damn thieves,.....that one will be hard to hide. I hope it gets found and the losers that stole the thing get shot in the ass.

 

Whoever gets caught with it, should be tied up behind it for a little barbeque...

 

I bet it gets cut up for scrap... And I bet it does go for crack.

 

Wow that is amazing , I know his brother and what the hell you going to do with a jet car, besides go fast and burn cars to nothing.

 

Looks like I'll have to add the Green Mamba drink to my repertoire and serve them up in honor of this missing piece of art...even though he's not a HAMB member, we still get to kick the thieves teeth in when we find them, right?

 

WTF??? cant hide that thing for long-and if the prick who stole it is
caugh,he should be castrated!

 

John, maybe the assholes that stole it will try to fire it up and torch themselves. I absolutely hate a thief. Any idea what the trailer looks like? I'm dealing with one in St. Pete myself. Mike

 

Maybe like that?

 

Check this out,,,,,,,



http://competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1096&Itemid=6

 

I hope they fry the bastards that took it. I am so glad that it turned up so quickly, which means they probably didn't get a chance to fuck it up too bad.

 

I just spoke to Doug Rose's wife and offered my help in getting the car back together. She told me the chassis was cut into 4 pieces and the engine is still missing. I'm sure they could use the help and support of anyone else locally to get back to entertaining us with this truely cool car.

 

They say they found pieces in a Tampa body shop... how hard would it be to find the owner of a body shop?

The assholes who stole it thought they were getting a trailer they could re-title as homemade and sell it to a lawn service or to someone to use as a rolling meth lab, and they got a bonus they thought they thought they could part out... Anybody that has the slightest interest in cars knows about the Green Mamba, I'm sure the body shop owner knew what the theives had found.

If he needs help doing absolute grunt work, I can be available. I think we have an old friend in common, Don Steuernagel. PM me, I'm in Pinellas.

 

What the hell do you do with a F7U Cutlass J46 jet engine?!?!?

It isn't quite as common as a 350...

I hope they find it and the thieves die in the gun battle

 

Doug is a hella guy .. I had the opertunity to start his jet back in the 80's ... I wish him the best getting the GM back together and his new project

FYI ... His car before the Green Mamba was the Green Monster..He crashed that vehicle on July 4, 1966. He was injured so severely that he had to have both legs amputated! Despite being legless, he has been racing the Green Mamba since 1968.

 

thiefs need to be taken in the back and set down for a little AFTERBURNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The Green Mamba was at the event that set me on the path I walk today--Great Lakes Drag-o-Way, 1979. I was 8 years old. I'll never forget announcer hyping the car..."The Green Mamba!!! The deadliest snake in the world!"
Bill Golden was also there doing wheel stands with metal plates on his wheelie bars, throwing sparks.
I met my uncle for the first time that day, too--he was running a Fuel rail with a blown and injected 392 in it. He would later tell me "It's been my experience that if you're upside down and backwards going 80 or 180 miles an hour, it's all about the same."
I remember standing at the fence, much closer to the starting line than you can get as a spectator today, with my fingers grabbing it, being totally deaf, feeling the ground shake under my feet and my lungs vibrating in my chest, thinking "This is the neatest thing in the world!" as the cars were staging.
My mom has told me "After that day, you were never the same." And it's true.

And now these fucking bastards have cut up a piece of it! FUCK! Those fucking scumbags need to have everything they own broken and destroyed, a brand on their forehead that says "THEIF," and then be deposited in the heart of a strange city with no money, no ID, 10 broken fingers so they can't dial a phone to call friends to come get them, and wire their shit-talking trap shut so they can't ask for help.

Don't kill them...just fix it so they can think for a good long time about what they've done to one man's livelihood.

Brad

 

I hope they can rebuild after those ass-holes ruined everything.
Keep us informed as you learn more John.

 

i bet oj was in on it

 

They found the engine today at a local scrapyard. He had a spare, but has the original back now. He said he would rebuild it....
Crackheads/scrappers...they'll steal the iron out of your blood!

 

Unbelievable!!!!

 

we have a problem here in Dallas with these scrap metal junkies that sneak around in these pile of shit trucks. They pull up to new housing developments or construction sites and steal the a/c systems along with the wiring and pipes to cash in for their copper content. This would mostly stop if the places that buy scrap would start holding this stuff for a couple of days just to make sure it wasn't reported stolen. Its seems fishy to me when a scumbag pulls up in a fifty dollar truck and has three to four thousand dollars worth of new a/c compressors and thousands of dollars in new copper pipe for scrap..

 

They were probably in it for the trailer. Someone here swiped a trailer from Gasoline Alley and opened it to find an Indy car. They must have figured they had bitten offf more than they could chew and abandoned the trailer and car on the other side of town I think, undamaged.

 

I'll put money on it being a bunch of druggies. They heard "jet engine", and probably saw dollar signs in their eyes. They really really need to start regulating scrap yards.

 

I like the way you think!

 

Can you imagine how sick he must've felt upon seeing his labor of love hacked into pieces? I hope Karma works really fast for these guys who stole it.