Theft at Bloomington....
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Racer
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Theft at Bloomington....
Aggravated. I parked in the Forum area, right next to the Western Corvette Club sign and tent, (I actually blocked the sign, but that's where the crew told me to park), and found that someone clipped my rear deck emblem off of my 67 convertible. I think it was an original emblem as well. Can't trust anyone. Looks like I need to install the Wifi cameras and video surveillance on my car now.
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I watched several pull their gas caps and lighters after judging was over.
Sad.....
Sad.....
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Incredibly unusual. Most vette owners really watch out for each other. I'm really surprised this would happen, especially when you figure most people there paid 20 bucks to get in. Just hard to imagine they would do things like this.
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not really. we see posts like this every year after Carlisle and Bloomington...people suck
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Sorry that someone messed with your car - pretty low of someone to do that to a classic like the '67.
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Sorry to hear about this. I guess I'm naive when I think that there are some places where I expect a car to be safe and one of those places would be a huge gathering of car people.
Now, what is this wifi camera for cars thing?
Now, what is this wifi camera for cars thing?
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I am sorry to hear about the theft. An acquaintance of mine had his Marina Blue '67 427/435 convertible Benchmark certified last weekend at Bloomington Gold. After the car was judged someone took his Oil filler cap off and turned to walk away with it. His family started shouting and ran over to see what the guy was doing. He explained he "was just looking at it." Right
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I wouldn't be surprised if the thief didn't even own a vette and went to BGold for the sole purpose of seeing how much stuff like this he could steal! 
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I guess it's more important to make sure people are parked in the correct area than actually watching out for vandals...
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I am sorry to hear about the theft. An acquaintance of mine had his Marina Blue '67 427/435 convertible Benchmark certified last weekend at Bloomington Gold. After the car was judged someone took his Oil filler cap off and turned to walk away with it. His family started shouting and ran over to see what the guy was doing. He explained he "was just looking at it." Right