A very familiar story to me. I hope the coupe gets found intact. I know well the feelings Jared feels as our family model A pickup had been bought new in 1930 and my dad completely restored it in 1989. Was stolen after he died, before I could get out to the west coast and claim it. Never found it. I'll certainly keep an eye out for the coupe here in the Midwest.
East Texas watching and I am gonna pray for the thieves that they get ran over by a train and die a slow painful death
Coincidentally, I had a few of my complete, ridable Schwinns I spent many years restoring stolen from a Public Storage facility two years ago this month! Police were no help and as a matter of fact almost counter productive, long story, still no sight of my bikes and I doubt I'll ever see them again. The scum were nice enough to leave a couple behind, guess they ran out of time. Luckily I purchased insurance on the unit, of course what I got wasn't worth even half of what I had in the bikes. Conveniently, the cameras "didn't work", no lights near my unit, and nobody (including the scum property managers who live on site right across from my particular unit) saw or heard anything and were reluctant to talk to me.. I still think they were in on it. That said, if I were the owner of the car, I would be questioning the people that run the storage facility, after all, you're paying for a "secured" unit. Hopefully he/she will have better luck.
Unfortunately, another reason the locks are replaced is because that's another way of storage facilities and insurance companies not having to pay out for claims. See, when there is no evidence of "forceable entry" it becomes a "mysterious disappearance" and you're not covered. ALMOST happened to me. This is why Public Storage employees try to make you think you have to buy their locks,luckily I used my own Master Disc lock.
PunkAssGearhead88, Look on You Tube. Master locks (even disc) can be picked faster than using a key. I ran across a video there about lock picking. Watched a few, learned how a lock works, went into the junk drawer, opened just about every lock in less than minute each. All with homemade tools. Locks just keep honest people honest.
Sorry, but I can't help but wonder what a prayer like that actually sounds like. Could you spell it out for us?
I was hoping I would have gotten to the last page and saw it had been found. You do have to wonder if there was a little insider info on the part of the storage facility or something. Hopefully, this story doesn't get TOO MUCH attention, and the thieves get scared and burn/chop/dump it!
Well the scum that stole my bikes apparently didn't know that. Having videos like the one you mentioned on Youtube are bittersweet. It helps if you can actually put the lock on with the keyway inwards. I respectfully disagree that "Locks just keep honest people honest." Obviously a would be thief is going to go for the easiest target, not having a lock at all is almost like leaving a light on for a theif.
WONDERFUL NEWS !!!!!!!!!!!!! I was hoping to open this and see this result. Please fill us in on the details. Don
Wonderful! Maybe I could hire the Pickens boys to come up to northern Oregon and find my stolen model A pickup.
Great news. With nearly everyone having a smart phone now. I have installed one of these into my car https://www.thetileapp.com/ I'm thinking that even young thieves with their cool phones, even standing by, or parting out, or trying to resell a car might trigger this.
congratulations young man, most hot rods don't last that long let alone in the same family. I don't how practical it is but maybe store at home. sincerely happy for you Tom
It's a mir-ackle! Now that you have it back how about some photos on a new thread? I'd love to see more of this little puppy! Gary
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