Posted on 01/25/2023 5:20:47 AM PST by EBH
If i owned one of these cars i would do like id did with my old Supra.
Park, pop the hood, pull out the ignition fuse.
After a few times it becomes a very quick process and my car never got stolen.
A while back I watched a mini-documentary on stolen cars hidden in shipping containers that were headed overseas.
Yup, 100%
That’s rough, and all the way to South Africa at that.
I had an H2 for a while. Great truck, and I miss it, even though I learned a lot about what parts of it were great and what weren’t so great. I’d love to get another.
[stolen cars hidden in shipping containers that were headed overseas.]
I said fifty cars! Not forty-nine and a half!
That’s too simple.
This guy got the H2 back when GW Bush gave a tax incentive to buy new commercial trucks over 6000#s.
You could depreciate any vehicle 6000 lbs or more in the first year. It was designed to get businesses to buy new trucks.
However, H2 Hummers, Suburbans, Lincoln Navigators, etc all fell into that weight class too. So a lot of dentists and other small business owners bought them. My friend and his wife owned a hair salon. The H2 was their company car.
[How about mandatory minimum 2 year jail sentences for folks who steal cars?]
Make it 10
.
Drag racing on Front Street in Philadelphia -
Sometime between the wee hours and sunrise on weekends
the cops would open the fire hydrants to spray across the road
signalling the end of the evening's racing. (This was early-mid 1980s)
.
"Front Street was famous for illegal drag racing from the
1950's to the 1980's.
In it's peak, it wasn't uncommon to have over 100 cars
participating in street racing, while literally having
over 1000 people watching, only to have the Philly
police come in and break it up."
.
(The big-block MOPARS would always win, of course.)
Much better times - cheap tacos, cheap burgers
Guys were guys, girls were girls.
We had never heard of Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
And you could hear the “Rockford Files” theme song on the radio station.
The other part of the story was that the Montreal Marriott had a lot attendant until 10pm. It was such a cool vehicle they parked it right up front. There was a tricked out Mercedes parked right next to it. A Porsche next to that.
The H2 also had OnStar. He contacted them immediately. They would not activate the tracking until they had a police report of it being stolen. The local cops said the attendant probably got paid to tip off the thieves. That the Hummer was probably in a container in the port of Montreal within 10 minutes of it being stolen from the hotel lot.
Put the AI Chat bot on this to see if it has the solution.
Yeah. Mines a Rio. I got it as a commute car. Still gets great mileage
"Insurance giants State Farm and Progressive are now refusing to insure many vehicles sold by the two Korean auto brands in those cities and others now.
Insurance giants State Farm and Progressive are now refusing to insure many vehicles sold by the two Korean auto brands in those cities and others now."
" In a statement to The Drive, Progressive confirmed that it was no longer issuing new insurance policies
to "some" Hyundai and Kia vehicles in certain cities.
"Due to the theft risk that some Hyundai and Kia vehicles present, in many cases it makes these vehicles difficult to insure, so in certain areas of the country
we have adjusted our acceptance criteria for new business (there is no change for existing customers) on some of these models," the spokesperson said.
"We’ll continue to monitor how this issue plays out and are hopeful to be able to revisit our decision as the theft risk diminishes and community awareness improves."
I watched a kid saw through the steering wheel with a hacksaw and remove the club in under 30 seconds.
Ten works for me.
Excellent
My cars are very important to me
For many people, a stolen car could destroy them. Off to prison for these thieves.
I got mine for a work car as I drive a lot...gas mileage is a definite plus.
The way to fix this is give Black people more money.
I know that. you know that..
The idiot that tried to steal it?
not so much.
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