| Re: Stolen car
Hi Steve
Hopefully the following tale of woe will give you some hope.
In 1999, returning from a race at Watkins Glen, I had my complete rig, a Chev 454 SS, Swift Formula Ford, and trailer w/ 4 wheeler and all tools and spares stolen from the lot of the IKEA store in Hamilton, Canada (not all the bad guys are in the US).
Like others have said, it's hard to hide a specialty car for long, and a friend of a friend turned in the rat and the police recovered my race car, and trailer about a week later.
Quite a bit of my support equipment was gone, but at least I got my car back.
About two years later, I got a call that my truck was found in N. Carolina, suprisingly in good shape.
The painful part was that I was a 20 year Detective with the Mi.State Police, and thought all my precautions would
prevent something like this from happening. The moral is, if it can be locked, it can be unlocked, it just slows down the professional crooks.
Anyway, for what it's worth, don't give up hope. A GT40 is a hard car to hide for long, and it always amazes me how cheaply one bad guy will rat out another. So much for honor amongst thieves.
One of my friends runs the narcotics/vice team in that area, I will send him a picture of a GT40 and have him put the word out on the street.
Keep your fingers crossed, you might be shocked what some people will do for a couple of bucks.
By the way, when we walked out to where we had parked the truck and found a pile of side window glass, my wife claims that I invented several new four letter words, previously unheard by human ear. You know the old saying "swears like a trooper", well, I added to the legacy that day. |