Stolen race car

[Beth Denysenko]

FYI - a stolen drag car from our area. Had an NMCA decal in addition to the NHRA decal on the car, but I don't know if they actually raced with either them. Looks like a bracket car.

Hard to miss: bright purple Monte.



Here's a link to the story.
http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/...4178832907.txt

[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.