Need to vent... thieves have maybe ended a dream

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by b.d.d.

Again, if they were looking to pi$$ you off, or get even for something, they would have wanted you to know they were there by creating a mess. If they were seasoned criminals and this was a random hit, they would have walked off with everything.

From the outside looking in, whoever did this either knows what the heads are, or thinks they know what the heads are. I'd also bet a $1 that they have been in your shop or know someone who has. Probably one of those friends of a friend deals. No matter how selective you are about the people you let in and out of your shop, you can always bet that one of them knows a dirt bag buddy that they tell too much to in casual conversation. It's never the friends that get you, it's the dirt bags who are friends with your friends.

Originally Posted by Pvt Parts

Agreed. Something about this smells real bad. Someone knew what they were and where they were.

I'm the one that got hit. Yes, agree, something here smells! That's what I told the police when we filed the report. It doesn't add up, why someone took those heads and left everthing else. Why there was a mess left, yet, they took the time to put a cork board "back" over the space where the heads were?

As far as who may have done this. I don't/haven't had a lot of people out to my shop. There were friends, other drag racers, stock car racers, derby guys, a lot of different people that knew I have stuff. In addition, I did have pictures of this stuff, as well as pictures taken of things in the garage. If someone were "smart or cleaver" enough they could have easily understood the garage layout from this. Maybe a word to the wise to everyone that publishes pictures of our projects, something to ponder. I have "now" removed all mine from the 2-3 websites these were on.

After stewing over this a couple days. I'm going to get in touch with the insurance company, see what they are willing to do. Need call Parson&Myers first, get a handle on what it would cost me to replace these. I will get in touch with Automotion up in Indianapolis tomorrow. Make them aware that they may see a hot set of good heads surface.

To say I'm pretty discouraged and disgusted by all this, is putting it mildly! My trust factor for people, which has never been real high anyway, has taken a real big hit.