Looks like they had to use a shoehorn to get that V-8 in there.
Posted on 04/26/2010 5:02:44 AM PDT by Kimmers
After three years, Amanda Pogany forgot about her stolen 1996 Honda Accord, assuming it was in car heaven. But recently the cops found it at a Queens chop shop, traced it back to her and called up the Brooklyn teacher. The Daily News reveals it was "returned to her drag-race ready, with a brand-new V-8 engine, tinted windows, oversized tires with special hubcaps - and custom valve stem caps shaped like bullet casings."
Pogany said, "When I first saw under the hood I thought it looked like, you know in the movie 'Grease?' Like the 'Grease Lightning' car." Further, the car's interim owner—apparently he bought from the thieves—also put "in a manual transmission and leather interior and [hung] a Dominican flag and a giant wooden cross from the rearview mirror." Pogany said, "I'm Jewish. and I don't even know how to drive a stick shift!"
Her friends are offering her stick shift lessons but the car is in her parents' NJ driveway, where it's the belle of the block (people have expressed interested in buying it). In other news, the NYPD is reportedly trying to crack down on auto thefts—they are down 14% over 2008 and 2009 but are up 27% this year.
Pimped out? More like “souped up”.
Some Hispanic will jump n that. (Again)
I know a guy who had an old beater he was about to trade in or take to a junk yard that was stolen, he got it back a few months later, new brakes, engine fixed, repainted. Nothing like what she had happen, but still funny.
Diversity is our strength. /s
Looks like they had to use a shoehorn to get that V-8 in there.
Now they know where to find it so they can steal it again.
Wouldn’t her insurance company own the car?
Ah...couldn’t the cops have waited until the new trani was in....??
Ya, next time they’ll car jack her at an intersection.
Besides a .45, she needs a cutoff switch.
“Overhaulin’ is an American automotive reality TV show that ran for five seasons on TLC between 2004–2009. The show remains available via re-runs and syndication.”...
“The show’s premise was that an unknowing “victim” – the mark, in the show’s language — is nominated to be “Overhauled” by their family or friends, the Insiders. Their car, usually an old and tired antique car was obtained through some ruse. Some common examples included the car being “stolen” by Chris and Chip, a car being misplaced or lost at a mechanic’s shop, or the car being towed away by “police”.
An integral part of the show was when the two co-hosts play tricks on the unsuspecting mark, sometimes acting in roles of insurance adjusters or law enforcement agents, other times helping the Insider, while Chip Foose and a team of mechanics – dubbed “The A-Team” – have a week to remake the car into a custom masterpiece. Each show ended with the surprise reuniting of owner and newly made-over car.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhaulin%27
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/overhaulin/overhaulin.html
Only if she had theft insurance.
Not likely, since the engine in the picture is a 4, not a V8.
“Overhaulin” is my husband’s fantasy and his idea of Heaven on earth....we currently have a few “fantasies” waiting right now...
grrrrrr...SZQ
How did the new guy who fixed the car up get tags for it.?
Stole the tags, too.
I was wondering what kind of v8 would fit in an accord.
I owned a body shop for15 years.I have a 87 dodge dakota pick up with a 340 4bbl from a 68 dart in it.
In 1985 I got ticketed drag racing a Chevette down in Arlington that somone had crammed a small block into (they had to move the firewall).
The cops wanted to see the engine, so I got to see under the hood. They kept the body looking kind of rust bucket-ish so no one would suspect...
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