How many of you have had your GN's Stolen?

[Bescurred]

THIS is some scarry S***!

Yea...i'm getting lojack when I get home this is madness. Oh and a .357 too

 

[Blown&Injected]

I disable my car and was thinking about just leaving the ignition key in it with a cover over the key that says this car will not start. The note on the cover will hide the key from sight outside the car to prevent maggots from breaking in to just try, and if some a-hole does break in maybe they will not bust up the car trying to start it.

Some a-hole did try to steal it but there was no battery in it at the time. They actually broke into my neighbors car and tried to take the battery out of his car - probably to put in my car.
:frown:

 

[dentmasters01]

I thought NJ was the armpit of the U.S.A.

I think Memphis ranks right up there with the best of them. Not my buick, but while opening some new accounts there, we were working at a chrysler dealership one day. It was about 2 pm. Car salesmen everywhere, and we went in to get a drink of water. Came back out and no jeep. They took it for a joy ride and it was found about a week later abandonded in the parking lot of a local strip club. Here's the kicker. The chrysler dealer ship was next door TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT !!! The second week we were in memphis my jeep was stolen, the third week the hotel we were staying at was robbed at gun point.
Truley the arm pit of america.

 

[turbodave231]

I bought a 1986 White Turbo Regal as a theft recovery. I put it back together and my wife drove it as her everyday transportation. She forgot to flip the kill switch one day and it got stolen from the parking lot with a full tank of gas. The cops found another stolen car near the "scene" of the crime nearly out of gas. She worked in the downtown area of Tampa.

I went out looking for the car with a buddy of mine. To say we were heavily armed would have been an understatement....I was MAD!

We recovered the car about 5 days later. The cops told me where to find it and met me there. The rear tires were bald and the tank was nearly empty. Good thing I never found the perp, he'd be sleepin with da fishes.

Dave

 

[SinistrV6]

My '86 was stolen in '95. Still miss it.

 

[boostmaster]

Stolen Buick

My 84 T Type was stolen from my home the first time in spring of 1999, got it back 1 week later with a busted turbo and rod knock. I moved to what I thought was a safer neigborhood in 2002 and just last summer (May 2005) the same T Type was stolen again from my home. I live 250ft from the street and you can't see my home from the road. I have a pretty good idea how did it, gave the cops all the leads they needed and still the T has never been found. I'm still chasing down every Regal I see on the road.

 

[MeanBuicks]

I think Memphis ranks right up there with the best of them.

Nope. Gotta disagree with you here. Memphis has them beat hands down when it comes to crime.

Look at Memphis compared to Los Angeles & Memphis compared to New York City.

Y'all come back now, y'hear? :biggrin:

 

[Raist103]

here is a link of my 86gn stolen at 30k miles.

http://www.northeastsyty.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album11

i bought it from a family friend, who ordered it new with my dad when he ordered his. i bought it at 19k miles and perfect condition. took it to atco ran a 6.8 in the 1/8th powermaster and massair went out after the 1/8th so i towed it home. sat with slicks on it for 2 weeks before i got to play with it. then 1 day i went to start working on it and chaged the tires back to street tires it was gone that night. i have been told by a couple people names of guys in camden that did it and work on them there but have never seen any parts there. although i do know a guy with some of my parts and was told where he got them and when i told the police they did nothing. then i had to fight with the insurance company for 1 1/2 years since they tried to give me 3500 for it.

makes me sick to this day that nothing happened to these guys. one day when i dont mind going to jail i will go over there and get the truth. j/k or am i?? of coarse i would never hurt anyone "lol" but the truth will get told one day.

 

[ThikStik]

These cars are shiite magnets-they attract criminals and cops. ( which are many times criminals too).

 

[SHADOWII]

lost my 87 in 89 in Parsippany, N.J. while 15 people, who were on break watched a white van pull into the parking lot and stop in front of my car. a guy jumps out of the passengers side and breaks into the car and is burning rubber down the road in 10 seconds! my boss thought I took off from work w/o telling him until he ran into me in the lab where I was runing tests.
to make a long story short, the cops refused to list the car stolen until I showed proof of ownership. by this time, it is near 7 PM and I'm 15 miles from home w/no ride! any how, not so much as a washer was ever recovered from that car! :frown:

 

[TType84]

http://www.geocities.com/threepointeight/stolen/

car was stolen in.. 01 or 02.. i forget now

got it back a week later. in the condition above.

 

[suicide six]

Had mine broken into maybe 10,12 yrs ago while away from car for acouple hrs.Had the club on steering wheel,drivers seat broken,steering wheel bent I guess trying to get the thing off,mustve forgot the right tools for the job.Girl friends purse in car and untouched.From then on car always within sight or in garage.If they want it,theyre going to try.Make it as difficult as possible,cause if they get it you will not want it back.I felt violated just w/what happened here.Cops could care less.

 

[Searcher]

A friend had his Turbo T stolen a few months back. The car was on a trailer for two nights and on the second night it was stolen. They drug his Ram 3500 out of the way and hitched on to the trailer.

He got it back a couple weeks later, stripped and set on fire. It was also a slap in the face as they brought the car back on the same trailer and left it about a block from where it was stolen.

 

[rhunt]

stolen CAR

Turbodave

And you my friend would be in a FLA prison getting bu** F**ked by a guy named Bubba every single day for the next 12-15 years. Think about that.

Roger

 

[turbodave231]

I probably woulda just shot the tires off my own car and scared the $hit out of the theives. My wife thought we were nuts..........and she was probably right!

 

[V6RACER]

My first 87 GN was stolen in 95 from right outside my apt window. I went to the track the night before still had the tires, race gas, and race chip in the car when it was stolen. I woke up the next morning got ready for work walked out and couldn't find my car. I first thought that my brother was playing a trick on me because he had keys for my car. I called him and woke him up. Of course, he didn't do it and came right over beating the cops there. The cops took the report and basically said no chance of getting it back. We went out looking night after night for a week looking in all of the normal places and never found it. About a week later I got a call from the police inpound lot at 4pm saying they found my car but couldn't tell me what the condition was. I had to leave work early, go downtown to pay the towing and impound fee, and then drive across town to the lot before 5pm to pick it up. I had a buddy of mine that had a GN to go with me and luckily he had an extra ecm because the car theives stole it. They busted the column. They bent up the new rims I had on there jumping a curve. The car would barely run to get it back home. Come to find out they ran all of the gas out of it joyriding. The radio was set to a station I never listened to and all the speakers were blown. They smoked cigars and whatever else in the car. That pissed me off the worst because the car was perfect and had never been smoked in. They left the screwdriver in the console that they used to bust the column with. I drove it for a week using their screwdriver.

About a year later in the same apt complex, I woke up to reverse lights shining into my room. I looked out the window to watch two guys jump out and bust my 1/4 glass to get in the car. I ran outside in my underwear and started beating the hell out of one of them trying to get into the get away car. They sped off and hit about three or four other cars trying to get away from me.. I'm glad I didn't pick up my Glock on the way out because I would have been in jail now.

After that incident, I was informed by the police that my apt complex was a training ground for the local gangs to break in a steal cars. One night I saw the cops catch a group of teens with over 30 radios from cars parked in that apt complex.

I moved shortly after that.

 

[TType84]

http://turbosix.net/damages/

links to pics from theft and 2 break ins

 

[ajcgn]

My 85GN was stolen twice in 1991. Got it back within a week the first time with a busted turbo. Insurance rebuilt it. Got it back after a month the second time. They stole the wheels, computer and stickers. Being an 85 must have left a sour taste in their mouths. Had it until 1996.
For my 87, bought just a few months ago, my chip disables the car if not started properly. Hope that works.

 

[RKHiPerformance]

About three years ago...

We had just completed the installation of a new engine in our 1986 T-Type. We had spent a bunch of money on good parts and we were happy to have the car running again.
We took our maiden voyage from our home (at the time) near Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA for a convention for my wife's work. The fancy hotel where we stayed had no room left in their parking garage when we arrived , so we were referred to the multi-level parking garage across the street. There were many nice cars in the garage with us (BMW's, Benz's, etc) so we felt fairly safe leaving the car there over night. As a precaution, I disabled the car's fuel pump before we locked it up.
The next morning we returned to the car to find the driver's door left open and the door lock punched out and dangling. The column had been shattered, and the stereo, HVAC controls and dash bezel were destroyed. The fuxx had also punched out the truck lock but failed to get the trunk open (amateurs), which was fortunate because we had a nice amp mounted back there.
Needless to say, we were very distraught. We also found it very suspicious that our old T-Type was targeted when there was much more valuable iron parked alongside. The Atlanta police took forever to show up and were extremely uncooperative, as were the parking garage owners. The police acted as if we were hassling them to fill out a freakin' report.
After some finagling, we were able to get the car started to complete our trip. Words can't describe the anger you feel after some piece-of-chit punk breaks into YOUR car and tries to steal it. We're so grateful that we thought to disable the car before we left it that nite, otherwise it surely would have been gone.

Many years ago I lived with my parents on Long Island. I came home one night at about 11 PM and parked my LT-1 four-speed Monte SS in front of the house. Thirty minutes later the car was gone and was never recovered. I searched every nook and cranny of Long Island for that car and found nothing, not even a lug nut.
About a year later my 454-powered '78 Malibu was stolen from the driveway. The car was fully disabled and must have been towed. I had no theft coverage on that car, and that sucked. Months later, thieves attempted to steal my Dad's Mustang LX, but were thwarted by a well-hidden $4 kill switch. But that was enough...We all left NY and never looked back. You'd think we lived in the ghetto with all this theft, but the neighborhood was quiet and well-kept. I got the feeling the thieves knew we kept some interesting cars and would stop by every so often to help themselves.

We won't leave our cars anywhere, now. And I have so much anger towards these thieving punks that I worry about what I might do if I catch one.

 

[bison]

We won't leave our cars anywhere, now. And I have so much anger towards these thieving punks that I worry about what I might do if I catch one.

They are such scum that no one important would care if they suddenly disappeared. I would have no problem whacking one of these pieces of chit.