Hot Rods Stolen 59 impala in the news

K, its very easy to keep this from happening as far as starting the car. Batteries in the trunk with a main cut off. I also use a special solinoid with a hidden switch and shut off all battery power. So even if they were to get in the compartment they would have no power. So a real robber needs to have power available, takes a little more time but still is a deterant.

Also air bags are nice when my car is parked you arent getting underneath it period, and if you lock the hood that helps too. If you set air bags to scrape which i dont like to do, would be hard to move that kind of weight anywhere if you have to drag it. Shit by this time whole world gonna see whats going on.

Fact of the matter is if they really want it they can get it, just how much time it will take. So basically my car is in full view of me wherever I go or else the time my eyes are off of it is less then the time it takes them to steal it.

LOL reminds me of a time when I bought a new air compressor ant Sears. Big vertical upright. I was heading home and needed to stop and grab a few things from supermarket. I go in store for a few minutes and here them call for someone with an old ford pickup, well mine was a 92, but when I pulled in I noticed this 72 parked near me so I assumed something was up with his truck.

Anyway I go outside and start walking toward my truck and the guy with the 72 asks me if that was my 92 truck, I say yes. Then he says someone tried to steal your air compressor, Im like really. I look at my truck and its gone, well its laying behind it in the street. Apparently the kids who tried to steal it couldnt lift it once they got it off the truck . Idiots

By that time the guy was yelling at them and they took off. Cool guy helped me load it back on and off I went. Lord was on there side because as I said lord help anyone if I catch them stealing

 

I didn't say coil wire....I said rotor.... pop the cap take the rotor....not tryin to start a pissin contest just clarifying my point. It's always worked for me. OF course on my cars it's easy to access the rotor...2 clips on the distributor... on my old OT german car...I used to pop the rotor out...put it in my pocket, lock the decklid and go where ever...and this was on the south side of Chicago...granted if they really wanted to steal it they coulda carried it off...
All we are really doing is deterring theft...if someone really wants you car, they'll get it...

 

hahaha priceless

 

The Club can be removed even faster than cutting the steering wheel. I've heard that the crooks take a 1.5 foot section of plumbing pipe, slip an end over the fork that goes next to the wheel rim, and easily bend it back. Club gone in seconds with no damage to the wheel.

-KK

 

As I read the posts I was amazed some one didn't mention this sooner. When I had a convertible I never locked the doors. I made sure I didn't have anything of value in it. I would rather have some one rummage through the car and find nothing than cut a $600-800 top and find nothing. When I first got married one of the first things I did to my wife's car, a '96 Firebird, was reverse the lock on her plastic gas cap cover, the kind that is flush with the body. I reversed it so she couldn't lock it. At first she was upset but when I explained I'd rather have some one siphon $5 worth of gas than cause $500 damage prying the cover open, she agreed with my reasoning.

I also agree, leaving a car in an alley was a stupid thing to do. Especially with a car that takes only a minute to hot wire. Well, that's a minute if you have half a brain, the video shows these idiots attempting three times to get it started. I would think that if it was an insurance scam the owner would have at least given these yahoos basic instruction on hot wiring a car.

 

I drove a 55 Willy's Jeep in High School. I wired the coil power to the old floor dimmer button that was not being used. I would also pull it up to the front of my house whenever I got home and chained the frame to a block pillar by my front door. When I was at school I would run the chain from front rim to front rim, looped around the drive shaft.

To this day I always lock up my bikes everytime I stop and even keep them all chained together in my garage. I usually lag them to the floor as well. I am planning on selling the house I am in someday, so I haven't lagged it.

My 65' stepside has a fuel pump cut off and I always use a club too.

Nothing is foolproof. Precautions just keep honest people honest. If a thief really wants it they will find a way to take it.

All you can do to be sure is always watch your stuff and shoot first.

 

Yeah, well.......I wasn't talking about you. I know EXACTLY what you said and I think I know the difference between a rotor and a coil wire. Back off.

 

I have a family friend with a fairly rare SCJ Mustang, he really liked to drive his cars so he installed a mechanical line lock with a keyed locking collar located drivers side floor under the edge of the seat. It ran pressure to the rear brakes, press the plunger turn the key and the collar kept the plunger from being released. Not theft proof, but it was well hidden.

 

Easy off on the throttle brother...I wasn't tryin to start shit...didn't want to get lumped in with the others here.. I like you car and I got mad respect for drag racers... we cool or what?

 

I came out of our apartment my wife and I had in San Jose and found some asshole sitting in the cab of my '55 F100, with the ign switch out, and a jumper wire in hand.
I pulled him out, and over my shoulder, ran him into the concrete block wall 5 feet away...
Wife called the cops, and our local patrolman, Ernie Hernandez, frisked the guy and came up with a 12" Bowie that made Crocodile Dundee's look like a penknife!
The guy said I 'assaulted him', and Ernie told him he was lucky I didn't cook him, (or worse) fooking with that truck.

Ten years later, here I am at the Atwater bank, I lock the truck and go in...I notice a rustic-lookin' old guy watching the truck...so I stand in the line with the view out the door, the guy gets a little close, but he's just lookin'...I finish my biz, and walk back outside, unlocking the drivers door, and he says: "The door locks still work on that ol' truck? Whaddaya lock it for?"
I answer: "Just to protect anybody that tries to get inside."
He gave me that 'deer-in-the-headlights' gaze...I hazed the tires, he was still lookin'.

 

Yeah......we're cool. I'd hate to see someone lose a car because of the false sense of security of just pulling the coil wire.

 

I hope no car thieves are checking out this thread. They know what city you live in and now they know how to steal your car.

Lots of good deterrent ideas though!

 

I totally understand. Ive nursed inline 6 engines home on 5 cylinders...
It can be done.

 

I see all the pros (no one should lose their cars) and cons (he's stupid) so I decided to let my wife view the video, since she is not a car person and get her opinion. She said, "Boy, was he STUPID!!!".

 

LOJACK! boom done!