The reviews on Amazon are pretty much split 50/50 does not sound real reliable

 

Last month i was at a show. A guy there had a 61 all original except one repaint 38000 miles. He kept it right on the street on the main drag. I couldn't have slept at nite worrying about it dissappearing. No amount of insurance can replace something like that.

 

I am not going to loose any sleep over it but I am going to take all precautions within reason to avoid it happening or being able to recover it quickly if it happens. I am planning a long trip in the car this coming summer and it will be sitting in motel parking lots ever night during that time.

 

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"][Joyriders will quickly dump your car after trashing it and prob be gone and on their way before anybody knows different - this happened to member ptjsk's 62.

[/COLOR]Buy one if it makes you feel better but don't bank on it 100%[/QUOTE]

Those Azz-hats probably had it for about 8-10 days Frankie! It was on the 13th day that I received a call from a gentleman who stated the car had been there a few days.

Pat

 

Dale Pearman (AKA VAROOOM), a long time Corvette enthusiast, and the man that located and restored the only 1962 Corvette to have raced at LeMans developed his own security system.

This logging chain had the biggest links of any chain I had ever seen.

Dale drove this car to shows all over the country. For one show he even removed the passenger seat so he could take a set of wheels to the swap meet.

He never had his car disturbed at any of the shows he attended.

 

Maybe decades ago that would have worked for me...nowadays I'd prob hop in the seat, jam the car in reverse and back straight up - ripping the front suspension off the car...

 

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Conjured up visions of that scene in American Graffiti where the Toad attached one end of a chain to the back of the cop car and the other end to a lamp post.

I have a Hella red key battery cutoff in my glove box with a 3 amp jumper to keep my clock running when the red key is out. I can't even tell you how many of those 3 amp fuses I've had to replace because I forgot to put the red key back in before trying to start the car.

Steve

 

I remember mentioning to Dale one time that he should put his chain on the driver's side wheel / suspension so he didn't forget he had it on there.

He admitted that one time he did forget, but fortunately he was not backing up hard or fast. He didn't get very far, and no damage as a result.

I looked at him and asked, "You, not backing up hard or fast. Who are you and what did you do with VAROOOM?"

I remember seeing a variation of this on a 69 Camaro one time. The car had nice Cragar SS wheels on it (which had spaces between the spokes.

The owner ran a logging chain through the spokes of the driver's front wheel, and also through the spokes of the driver's rear wheel. Then the chain was locked up tight.

The owner also used a couple of those cushioned seat belt covers that go across the driver's shoulder to protect the Cragar wheels from being scratched by the chain.

And the lock used was also one of those seriously heavy duty numbers.

A car that does not roll can still be pulled onto a flatbed, but it gets tougher to do so.

 

I did this to my trailer went I went to Carlisle.

 

Well....I "think" I can attempt to sleep easier, as I have several "obstacles" in place now. A couple of them are obvious (heavy cable laced through both the front wheels), and a couple of them are not so obvious.

Nothing is absolute, but the thieves would definitely have to work for it to take our '62 again.

I think that when it takes extra time, and a whole bunch of effort, the thieves would most likely move onto something a bit easier.

Still though....those who steal should be hung by their gonads in a public display!

Pat

 

Sounds a RING door bell for your car. Have you used it and is it working well for you?

 

 

^^^

Me too..didn't want to be the guinea pig lol

 

I am on my way to having 3 plus a GPS tracker.

Regarding justice for thieves I will repost this story that happened to me. Most people find this VERY amusing.

About 30 years ago I had my 1966 Corvette stolen. I was a very nice 427/390 coupe in Mossport Green with green interior. Equipped with A/C, P.S., P.B., P.W., 4 speed, knock offs, goldlines, side exhaust, T.I., teak and telescopic wheel. I had not been driving the car much so I dropped the full coverage insurance to basic which did not cover the theft. I KNOW, I don't need to hear about it. Of course I was sick about it and never expected to see the car again, Anyway, as luck would have it the car was recovered about two weeks later and the 3 thieves were put in jail pending trial. I go to court to testify and the thieves attorney made a classic mistake of asking a question that he did not know the answer to. He was alluding to the idea that I was in on this theft with the 3 thieves to collect the insurance on the car. When I told him that might be a possible theory IF The car was insured for theft which it was not. He was shock and you could see from his face that he really had nothing more to say.
One of the thieves was a previously convicted Felon and received a length sentence in prison.

Now here is where it get good with a sense of irony. I had to talk to the arresting officer to get a form in order to have the V.I.N. tag reproduced along with the trim tag as the thieves had ripped both of them in 1/2 tearing them out of the car. This was months after the guy had been sentenced and the officer asked me if I had heard what had happened to the guy. I said no, and he tells me that they were remodeling parts of the prison and this guy gets inside of an old clothing locker that they threw in the garbage. Apparently he did not know it would be picked up by a compactor truck. The last thing he heard was the RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR sound of the compactor compressing the life out of him.

Let this be a lesson to stupid thieves.

 

Back when air conditioning was a luxury (late 60s) I heard gravel crunching on our rural road through the hot summer air coming in my open bedroom window one night. I immediately knew somebody was coasting up to the house and my first thought was they were there to steal the Keystone mags off my first generation Camaro.

Yup! I put my drawers on and ran out into the front yard with My Dad's Colt .45 auto clearly visible in my hand. The yokels threw their bumper jack in the trunk of their 69 Camaro and tore off and I chased them a bit but broke off when we approaching triple digit speeds.

Turned out they were a couple of punks from a rival high school - but word got out not to mess around my house. No trouble ever again.