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Not high hopes for it coming back and if so, chanses are the kids(?) who
took it probably joyrided it to death and will have to be complete goen
thru...again, klike suspension, engine, trans, brakes and what not from whatever
they did with it thinking it was a 4x4 or took it out like stolen Hertz Rent a
AMX and raced it repeatedly where kids hang out on Saturday night. Who knows,
someone might have taken it to cannibalize it although unlikely.
As for right mind, Doc, I leave my iron on street here in Houston Texas
aand have for years,
Some of those shown above had won first at ISCA Astrodome Autorama and
others had won their classes in AMC Regionals and mixed make meets.
Here is a photo fo the apartments I lived at of my cars on street:
no driveway, but public street. Never a problem although Paige's 74 Hornet
Sportabout wagon was stolen by crackheads one night, and recovered next day we
had to pay police storage, tow fees, replace steeting column, fix wobbly front
end, and door glass. Never understood them breaking the door glass, they could
have opened the damned door with handle, none locked. This was a REAL TOUGH
Houston neighborhood many called 'gang gardens' which the predominiant groups
were SouthWest Cholos and murderous MS-13 (ya'll look them up). Never a problem
with my cars.
However you did learn to put your cars away someplace New Years Eve due to
the sheer firepower arsenal of weaponry people had in that area, quite a story
in itself, and those bullets had to fall somewhere, so best put cars away.
Larry's car was in his driveway, not street, and I guess shows that crooks
steal anything, from wife's Hornet Sportabout to Larry's AMX if given a
chance. A insurance agent once told me that 'there is not a car out there
that can't be stolen' when we were discussing kill switches, alarms, and
lojacks.
I told him I was asking because I had just started a new repo job with
Interstate Adjusters. And had already reproed 10 cars, some in less than 12
seconds, something not proud of but money was good, $1K or more a day, depending
on how good you are making money off deadbeats I guess. Another story another
day.
But Doc, you're right, I know I'm not in right mind (sort of like the horse
they try to sell you in the retro Carmax commercial: "I could not sell that
horse to you as it ain't right on the inside" and shows the goofy drunk
guy taking head off and mumbling) but not sure what all the circumstances
were surrounding Larry's theft, could have come back from show or cruise night
perhaps.
It still sounds more like crime of opportunity not a actual target to me
however and hope he gets it back in any condition!
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