DeTomaso Mailing List: February 2001, Message #30

Do they have duct-tape in Europe or is that an American thing?  A little bit of 
white duct-tape would patch that door hole up just like new, bubba.

I can't figure out why they went to the time and trouble of drilling a hole in 
the door.  They should have just thrown the drill through the window to smash 
it and then reached in to open the door. Goes to show that criminals are 
criminals because they aren't smart enough (or too lazy) to do anything else.  

I had a Suburban broken into a few years ago. The windows were tinted and the 
plastic tint would tend to hold the glass in place if they were broken. A 
couple of SKITS (serial killers in training) went down one side of the vehicle 
poking a prybar hole in every single window until they got to the front vent 
window. That one happened to be missing the tint so it shattered into little 
glass pebbles allowing them access into the car.  I had to replace nearly a 
thousand dollars worth of broken glass because the dummy criminals never 
figured out all you had to do was gently push on the tinted, shattered glass to 
move it away and reach the door lock.  And all they took was a paper sack 
containing an old pair of blue jeans and a new package of Pampers.  
Unfortunately the Pampers hadn't been soiled yet. Bummer.

Dave

  

On Thu Feb  1 08:35:07 2001, "Charlie Mccall" <Charlie.Mccall@haworth.com> 
wrote:

> Shit. Double shit. I went to get my car this afternoon, and apparently 
someone broke in.
> They didn't just break in, THEY DRILLED A HOLE THROUGH THE F******* DOOR!!!! 
Photos
> available to anyone so interested. 
> 
> They drilled a hole through the door just below the handle. The metal is nice 
and shiny,
> there was no rust at least. 
> 
> I don't understand. I did just install a fancy new in-dash AM/FM/Cassette 
stereo with a
> 12-disk changer, but they didn't touch that. There was nothing worth stealing 
in the car.
> And I didn't notice anything missing. But the door was unlocked when I got 
there. I
> wonder what they wanted? The car is undamaged, except for a hole in the 
passenger door
> :-( :-( :-( 
> 
> The parking spot is 2 floors underground in an allegedly secure area - access 
is by key
> only. Where I am living, this is the only sort of garage that exists - 
private garages
> simply don't exist. 
> 
> The good news of the day is that I drove my car to the garage that has done 
the work on
> it in the past. They allowed me to pull the carb myself and indicate exactly 
what I want
> done. This afternoon or tomorrow morning they'll fab a fuel line for me and 
relocate the
> coil to eliminate the interference with the new dual-feed fuel line. Tomorrow 
morning
> I'll put my jeans back on and go back and install the new 4777-C. Gotta love 
a garage
> that'll let you do some work on your own car in their facility, prep it for 
exactly what
> you want done, then let you finish the job yourself. 
> 
> The forecast looks good this weekend so it looks like a ski trip in the P. 
Assuming the
> new carb works halfway decent, since it came off a Pantera and worked well 
there, it
> ought to. So I'll have a 700 kilometer test drive over the weekend to see how 
it works. 
> 
> Man, that pisses me off about my door....
> 
> Charlie McCall
> 1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> "Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985
> 
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