Local Kids always used to take my dice valve caps for thair bikes, until I found them. Believe it or not, some one once took a Lady Luck sticker off my quarter vent glass. But some of you guys have really sufferd losses. That's one of the down sides of the "masses" turning onto this thing of ours, every one now wants our stuff. What we used to find cheap because no one was interested, is now worth big $$$.
i had a 95 chevy truck- custom 22's airbags and it got stolen 3 times in 1 year- 2 passenger side windows-3rd dash and 3 cd player and 2nd set of subwoofer- 2005 was a shitty year for me and that truck- i hate fuckin thieves!
had a old oem dual point distributor stolen in the hotel parking lot at the street rod nats in 05.....they left the wires and wiring....thank god for no rain.... brandon
Lost a few stereos out of my Alfa. I never put the top up. Had a dragboat stolen out of a parking lot once. Found the hull but the 460 Ford engine with tons of go-fast goodies was never recovered. It was a sweet mill.
Hey, no kidding I saw a dog-dish Ford hubcap by the side of the road near the intersection of Hardin and Highway 121 (close to Plano) on Sunday. Couldn't have been yours though, this was Sunday afternoon.
Some punks got my '71 3:50 factory posi 9", an FE series bellhousing, a '48 Ford complete front axle, a hand crank winch with 150' 3/8 cable,and some other stuff---I think it was somebody looking for scrap. Still, that's sh**. A few years somebody ripped of my '29 Dodge coupe which I managed to recover. It never stops.. wheels, bumpers, other car parts. Managed to catch one of them breaking into my old Ford pickup----he payed for the rest.
In 1973 I had a 49 Ford coupe w/a 327.I ran out of gas one night and left it beside the road just outside of Fort Riley KS.I had a pair of size 14 Dingo boots on the rear floor that someone stole.Now what are the odds that the M/F wore a size 14?Prolly figured that since he went to all the trouble of breakin' in,he had to steal something..
2 months ago my buddy had his '50 Shoebox stolen from in from the house of the guy he had working on it. They roled it out to the street(no motor in it) and probly towed it. Straight body, no rust all original about to get it chopped. I told him it was a bad part of Long Beach. The guy kept it in his alley when he wasn't working on it. He wasn't driving it yet, so it wasn't insured. It wasn't a real shop so he's out everything. The guy still has his flathead and won't return is calls. Shady.
i've had my car stereo stolen. the sad thing is that the doors were unlocked, but they smashed out the drivers door window anyway. the stereo was cheap..nothing high $$. they also dumped a quart of oil out in my driveway that i had on the backseat floor board. the car i'm talking about was a 68 nova and this happened in the late 80's right in my driveway. if you've never seen how much ground 1 quart of oil can cover, it's amazing. i think cleaning up the oil pissed me off more than getting my radio stolen. the smashed out window didn't make me very happy either.
asswipes broke into the shop yard and took the carb,dist,wires, and shocks off the mud bogger truck,and took a mini-bike and gocart!!, that really pissed me off,we got a doby guard dog and they came back again but this time they didnt touch our yard but hit both next door yards!!..dogs rule!!
Another one that still puzzles me. Had my tool box stolen, about 8 grand worth of tools. The odd thing is where it went from, my barracks room! Yup you have to pass through two check points and show ID to get there. The area is highly restricted so not many people had a pass to get in there. The tool box was large enough that you needed a pickup or trailer to take it and it couldn't be lifted by 4 blokes full. Can anyone say inside job? Insurance paid for it all and more so I cant complain.
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