When I got to the shop today, I found that eight of 22 containers of vintage racing and hot rod parts had been ransacked.... the following items were stolen..... M-22 Muncie Transmission M-20 Muncie Transmission, painted Blue, in need of pinion bushing "Genie" brand magnesium Sprint car wheels, 15x15 knockoffs, no pins Magnussen Brand magnesium 14x3 dragster front wheels Ansen Sprint 15x8 aluminum slotted wheels (4) 5 on 5 Schultz midget wheel blanks, 13x4 and 14x8 2 each AFR Ford Windsor 351 loaded aluminum cylinder heads LS1 aluminum cylinder heads US Indy mags, 5 on 4-3/4, 15x8 the police and scrap yards have been notified.... please keep this bumped TTT until we catch these thieves!!!!!!!!!
That sucks man! I think that is every gear head's nightmare,start checking your local Craigslist even local speed shop's someone may be trying to pedal stolen parts. Wish you the best on finding these assholes.
great North West - Wsahington...not sure of the rest.... back in the day at our yard we had got some big old steel gas steel containers like the old service stations had - we had stuff in them and even parked a junker up on top for weight on two...they still kicked the car off? and moved them...must have thought there was gold inside...stilly thieves....
I wish people would just leave other people's stuff alone. I hope you get your parts back maybe post on some muscle car forums.
My dad had this happen at his yard, his container was broken in to and the people knew what was their and what they wanted...it turned out it was the security company who watch over the yard. People never want to work for what they have any more, makes me sick.
Good luck finding your goods. Does sound odd that those containers were checked on only certain items were taken. All the best. The HAMB police are pretty vigilant.
Sounds like those items all looked like aluminum to the thieves. I'd bet they are headed to the scrap yard.
Back in the 70s our rental building right off the Gulf Freeway in Houston near the Foley's warehouse my two friends and I had thieves break in and take all the radiators and aluminum from the place in broad daylight. This included radiators for 32-33-34-40 and 51 Ford cars and finned heads of various brands for flatties, mutiple carb intakes, an in-out box from a midget racer, Halibrand Q/C center section and cover plates, fuel blocks, headlamp stands, and other bracketry. Never to be seen again. Best of luck.
This was my first thought. Check local scrap yards, leave a list with them with your contact #. Ask them to go ahead and buy the stuff at scrap prices, you can get your stuff back if you have a police report and the cops will know who the thieves are. Legit scrap yards will photo copy the scrap sellers drivers license.
Do not CALL the scrap yards in your immediate area, go to them right now starting with the closest and fanning out from there. Ask to look at the scrap aluminum piles ASAP and of course explain the situation. We had this happen about 7 or 8 years ago when I was helping out at ElPolacko's shop with radiators in the fenced in, secure back lot. I jumped into the car and hit the first and second scrap yards less than a mile away and found all of them within minutes. A quick call to the cops and the stuff was back at the shop.
Another poster started this thought process. Mods can you please merge the two threads? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=796488 Thanks, Bebe
Wow, you live in Washington and "got to the shop" in Watsonville? that's one hell of a commute (Just bumping this for ya'll)
I'd be making a list of who knew that the stuff was in that particular container. They may not be the actual thief but may have run off at the mouth about what you had and were overheard by the thief.