Stolen...my Fu**ing Car Was Stolen!
08-04-2003, 01:36 AM
#21
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i'm saying itssomeone that reads this forum, or the other one. how else would they know to work on it. for all they knew it ran out of gas. unless they heard different. and they couldn't be too far from were it was, if they towed it with a geo. good luck.
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08-04-2003, 01:40 AM
#22
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Jesus ******* christ TJ, you've had one helluva bad year. I hope this one turns out okay. Even Blair finally recovered his 1st gen after it "mysteriously" disappeared one night from the dyno tuners shop. Too bad they didn't leave one single thing usable on his car. They even destroyed the frame to spite him. I hope your's turns up much better than that.
08-04-2003, 02:15 AM
#23
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Well I don't know what to tell you. If it were me, I would be asking everyone I know. Then I would call the cops every day. Get a detective on the case; they brought one one for my missing cell phone and I told him no big deal; just find someone in law enforcement who will pursue this matter, and do you your own investigation during your free time. Hopefully something will come up.
08-04-2003, 03:33 AM
#24
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i'd be going to any house within 20 miles of the place. taking pictures of things, dropping subtle qeustions, breaking limbs, whatever it took.
if someone were to steal my car, it would be just about as bad as someone stealing my.... well... car.... (its just that my car is like the one material thing i have that i truly dearly love)
you still need to give me a parts list and such. i will be looking out for it here in western wa.
also, license plate and VIN please.
if someone were to steal my car, it would be just about as bad as someone stealing my.... well... car.... (its just that my car is like the one material thing i have that i truly dearly love)
you still need to give me a parts list and such. i will be looking out for it here in western wa.
also, license plate and VIN please.
08-04-2003, 10:54 AM
#25
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wow, i cant believe anyone would go to all that trouble!?!
your chances of getting it back are decent though, just because its not a very common car #1, and its modded are everyone has seen it #2
mike
your chances of getting it back are decent though, just because its not a very common car #1, and its modded are everyone has seen it #2
mike
08-04-2003, 12:00 PM
#26
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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If somehow they manage to be people from the forum, we'll hear about it soon enough. They're not going to ever be able to post pics or go to a meet without someone going "hey, I recognize those parts... they look kinda like TJ's stuff... "
If they aren't from the forum (which in my mind is the better possibility), then they'd never have known how to recognize a blown rotor, and that would explain why they spent so many hours working on it. I mean think about it, almost anyone on this forum would pull the plugs *at the very least* to check for spark, or to de-flood it. Either of those require turning the engine, where you'd hear the "whoosh" instead of the "psssss", and we'd immediately give up. These guys were probably backyard mechanics who had never seen a rotary engine.
I'd say he has *three* reasons why his chances of getting it back are decent.
1. It's not a common car
2. Everyone's watching for it now (like mike said, everyone's seen it)
and
3. They aren't driving it very far! I mean they can't exactly tow it out of the city on a geo!
At the very least when it's recovered, get an engine out of your insurance. If not because they "drove the hell out of it" you can tell the truth. You blew an apex seal, but because you pulled immediately over, the engine could be rebuilt. When they were working on it for hours, every time they turned the engine over it put pock-marks in the side of the chamber, making it completely un-reusable. As I said earlier, you can do alot of damage to your chamber by continuing to push on it.
And you shoulda had that marker fingerprinted
Jon
If they aren't from the forum (which in my mind is the better possibility), then they'd never have known how to recognize a blown rotor, and that would explain why they spent so many hours working on it. I mean think about it, almost anyone on this forum would pull the plugs *at the very least* to check for spark, or to de-flood it. Either of those require turning the engine, where you'd hear the "whoosh" instead of the "psssss", and we'd immediately give up. These guys were probably backyard mechanics who had never seen a rotary engine.
I'd say he has *three* reasons why his chances of getting it back are decent.
1. It's not a common car
2. Everyone's watching for it now (like mike said, everyone's seen it)
and
3. They aren't driving it very far! I mean they can't exactly tow it out of the city on a geo!
At the very least when it's recovered, get an engine out of your insurance. If not because they "drove the hell out of it" you can tell the truth. You blew an apex seal, but because you pulled immediately over, the engine could be rebuilt. When they were working on it for hours, every time they turned the engine over it put pock-marks in the side of the chamber, making it completely un-reusable. As I said earlier, you can do alot of damage to your chamber by continuing to push on it.
And you shoulda had that marker fingerprinted
Jon
08-04-2003, 12:31 PM
#28
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Yeah, they didnt take it far. We were told by some witnesses last night during our rouge "sniper style" investigation (similar to what ioTus described) we're hosting that the people working on it made multiple trips to and from the car taking approx. 15 mins per trip...So that narrows down how far away they went. I also dont think they would try and tow it far with a damn Geo and a locking steering column...
Yeah, I didnt even think about fingerprints until after I had picked it up and was messing with it...Then it kinda hit me...D'oh.
Unfortunatly, I dont have full coverage, just liability, so I wont be getting anything from the insurance company...
~T.J.
Yeah, I didnt even think about fingerprints until after I had picked it up and was messing with it...Then it kinda hit me...D'oh.
Unfortunatly, I dont have full coverage, just liability, so I wont be getting anything from the insurance company...
~T.J.
08-04-2003, 12:40 PM
#29
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dude, you have my sympathy; i know if my car was stolen i would never give up until i found it. i dont think it will last too long because FBs are so rare and could be spotted instantly by one of us. i wonder if they will figure out what they have. doesnt matter, we will all be on the look out...and when we do find them.......
you dont need the insurance company, just when you find them look at your car and if theres damage take it out of their metro (a lug nug from your car would equal an entire metro tho) or just take it out of their faces
you dont need the insurance company, just when you find them look at your car and if theres damage take it out of their metro (a lug nug from your car would equal an entire metro tho) or just take it out of their faces
08-04-2003, 12:47 PM
#30
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Location: Melbourne, FL
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So all you have to do is drive 15 mintues from where you last parked the car and break into everyone's garage to see if it's sitting around. Or find that ******* geo first and do some "investigating". Just follow them around and when they stop at a light, come up with a baseball bat and smash all their windows in. Then politely ask them where the **** your car is.
~Jessica~
~Jessica~