Stolen race car

[Brandon Peterson]

Somebody tried to steal my super Stocker last night at my house....luckily the ramps that are usually on the trailer were in the enclosed trailer at dads house so they gave up on taking it off the trailer and then tried to steal the truck with the trailer...I got lucky they took a hatout of my truck and 10 bucks plus about a dollar in pennies...

[X-TECH MAN]

You know we used to shoot and/or hang horse thieves. Why not car thieves?

[Chuck Garey]

Years ago Da gave me a very simple solution for rig from being stolen.:

Simply put atoggle switch in a location (under seat ex.) that will kill the feed to the fuel pump. They can get in but they cannot start it

[Ed Wright]

At my shop we installed kill switches. Thiefs around here learned to look for toggle switches. I started hiding buttons under the carpet. Used AC relays, wired to the starter and the horn. If you don't step on the carpet (& button) before you turn the key, the horn honks instead of the starter spinning. They could attract a lot of attention before they figured out where to step.

[Beth Denysenko]

When someone is stealing a car, especially a race car with open headers, I doubt they are starting it - I would figure throw it in neutral and push to a trailer w/ a winch. Much quieter. Now, when they go to start it in their thief-cave, they might have an unpleasant surprise with those kill-switches.

[art leong]

Easy to protect a race car in a garage.
Take a $2.00 extension cord, cut off the female end, seperate the wires, strip the wires, Place the car over a woolen rug, soak rug in water, attach one end of wire to a good ground on the car, attach the other to the rug. (small bolt and some big washers work well. Plug other end into socket.
Make sure you never forget to unplug before going to touch car.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by art leong

Easy to protect a race car in a garage.
Take a $2.00 extension cord, cut off the female end, seperate the wires, strip the wires, Place the car over a woolen rug, soak rug in water, attach one end of wire to a good ground on the car, attach the other to the rug. (small bolt and some big washers work well. Plug other end into socket.
Make sure you never forget to unplug before going to touch car.

The boys in blue will lock you up if someone dies (or gets hurt) over that deal. Remember the guy who set up a shot gun (I dont remember where) and the burgler was wounded. He sued and won and the guy trying to protect his property was forced to pay and pay and pay plus time behind bars.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Beth Kieffer

When someone is stealing a car, especially a race car with open headers, I doubt they are starting it - I would figure throw it in neutral and push to a trailer w/ a winch. Much quieter. Now, when they go to start it in their thief-cave, they might have an unpleasant surprise with those kill-switches.

Wasn't talking about race cars. We had a big problem with chop shops around here.
It wasn't relevant. Sorry.

[art leong]

Another solution is a bear trap. Then the bastards can't run away.
Actually had a couple of them when we had the garage in Brooklyn.
Our best theft deterent was when a close friend who did air conditioning work for Carlo Gambino's house on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. Talked Mrs. Gambino into renting the garage to us. We didn't even need to lock the door.