Stolen from Mecum Auction-St.Charles,ILL 10-04-08

[Tommy]

I can't stand a thief .. I hope the cars and the rig are recovered. While I was away from home a while back my neighbor ran off a couple of guys scoping out my place. I had just brought home a rough 68 Camaro and it was sitting out back next to the garage. The neighbor told me he saw two guys pull up in front of my house in a truck with a car trailer. They looked through my front door and my back door then proceded to the garage and were in the camaro and one was looking through the garage window. When they saw my neighbor coming across the yard they ran to the truck and left. Thieves are getting bold ...... Again, I hope they catch the scum and retrieve all the property.


Tommy

[NovaMob03]

I think it's time to look researching GPS tracking devices. Lojack, Onstar or Mobile Guardian...there's got to be an easy, inexpensive way to install & track 'em so it doesn't happen to any of us

[Alss]

This is the one thing that scares me to bring my car anywhere!!.I have a lojak in the car AND the truck!

[CamarosRus]

Tracking devices are fine.........but I'm surprised more of you arent more pro-active about actually preventing the truck/trailer from MOVING...........as in disabling..... with the misc wheel, ignition, fuel lock devices......

[sixtiesmuscle]

How could the truck & trailer be "seen & chased" , 911 called right away, and, they got away without a trace. That's a shocker.

Darren, you should report what you saw to the police.

[ss427copo]

While most of you recognize I've posted this picture before "with a laugh" in mind, I REALLY believe this is the only way to protect your cars.



The two things I've done with my truck is a "buried" kill switch AND a hidden fuel shut-off vavle.


As for the trailer, I bought two measured lengths of REAL hardened steel locks and chains (not the HomeDepot kind), but the kind that has to be aceteylen torched to cut and locked both left and right rear wheels together. If you're not up to this, then sleep in your truck/trailer with your gun.....

Jeff x 2

[Eddie M.]

Sure seems like its getting worse I hope you guys find the cars.
We got our motorhome for just this reason well one good reason anyway sure makes travling with the car better.
when I do tow with the pickup and have to leave it (never overnite) I pull the relay for the fuel pump and take it with me.
The wife wanted me to get plates with (ZL1 N TOW) and I wouldn't even do that I don't want anybody to know what I have in the trailer.
Also have a wireless driveway alarm you put the box where someone gets where he shouldn't be and it sets off an alarm that's plugged in to 110 it works great for $79 from northern.we used it to catch some thiefs getting fuel from our irrigation well about 300 feet from the house it worked great

[1railman]

These guys have done this before and are probably following us (car people) around. My guess they know collector cars well and are members on many car sites. The best we can do for now is to make yourself a univiting target. I always would use numerous locks in plain veiw and no advertising of what's inside.

[70 copo]

I think you are right. At the SCR-Even with the guard in the lot I slept better knowing the trailer was a hard target when I put the big stick device on my trailer wheel. The cheaper trailer devices can actually damage your trailer and are far easier to defeat.

For example I checked out the Trailer Keeper first. It is cheaper than the Big Stick, but in the end it is more time consuming to set up each time and it will cause damage to your trailer equipment, as will most other wheel locks on the market. It is a pain in the butt too. With Trailer Keeper -A lug nut has to be removed every time it is set up or taken down to prevent the wheel from going out of balance if their "lug latch" is left on by accident in transit, and if you forget to remove it Trailer Keeper can come in contact with the trailer fender and tear it up when you try to move it.

In addition Trailer Keeper is attached to only one lug pin.

Big stick is attached to all 5 and has an armored housing to protect the lugs. The Big Stick will ride outside of the fender rim if you forget to remove it (I already did BTW.. ) and is much stronger because it attaches to all 5 lug pins. Finally the big stick mounting hub can be left on at all times without effecting wheel balance because it is symetrical.

IMO... You get what you pay for.

[Mr70]

I realize this is an OPEN trailer that was stolen,but this should underscore more then ever why NOT to paint any kind of logo or advertise what's inside ones CLOSED trailer.
I've contacted some Chevelle parts hounds in this area to see if any "newly discovered" LS-6,70 Chevelle or A-body parts come through the pipeline.