<VV> RE: REALITY HAS STRUCK

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:18 hours 05/17/2005, mopar at jbcs2.net wrote:
>A few years ago while at the Chrysler at Carlisle event, a 69 GTX
>convertible was stolen right out of the hotel lot where we stayed. This was
>a hotel full of car enthusiasts, so they could pick and choose what they
>wanted. The hotel was also half a block from the local police station.



Year before last, they stole a Hemi Roadrunner out of the parking lot 
overnight.   That's some serious bucks.  They also took the entire grill 
and trim assembly off the front of a new Dodge Ram pickup.  And *nobody* 
saw or heard anything.

Since then, there has been a voluntary system of night guards, with an 
organized cadre of participating car owners who walk the lot at night in 
shifts/pairs, equipped with radios.    Nobody wants a show quality vehicle 
worth 75,000 bucks to disappear again.


This may well be the sort of thing that CORSA might wanna consider in the 
future for conventions etc.   Security could well become quite important.


Nobody wants to come out the next morning and find their car 
gone.   Likewise any vendors who may have set up outside under a tarp 
etc.    This "trend" of Corvairs vanishing is not one I'd wanna see 
continue.


tony..