I was on winter break and for a week i was in Florida. I got a call from my parents that some broke into my 79' F150. The guy stole my stero since i had to put a aftermarket one in it. No damage was done to the truck but since it is old and way too easy to get into even when it is locked. So there is a happy ending the guy tried selling the stero right after he took wich was at like 2am. The guy he tried selling it to was a random house and he called the cops. so i got the stero back. It just makes mad that someone else was in my truck that i dont even know. The fact that i live in really a good community means nothng in these days. any ways that has to be worst feeling when this happens.

 

Bad things do happen to good people.

 

Too bad that your truck got broke into and the stereo stolen. It does seem like though you were very lucky that the truck wasn't tore up and that you were able to get the stereo back. Sometimes it seems like it is better to be lucky. Are you going to do anything different now when you reinstall the stereo?

 

Come this spring it will be in a newly built garage, as i start the restoration. The back window lock is broken, Never thought any one could get through that skinny opening. Guess that could be my fault. My stereo was attached to a bracket with a plain nut. Now its going to get a locking nut to help. I also plan on replacing all the weather stripping so no one can get any tools down the door, As some of the stripping is gone on my truck.

another thought is that i could sell the stereo and speakers cause the truck is almost too loud to hear it with my exhaust.

 

Just heard from a good friend back in Alabama that her place was trashed and stuff stolen yesterday. She is the kindhearted person who never had a bad word about anyone and would give you any help if needed. For the past couple of years, she has been living alone with his disabled daughter outside of Huntsville. She had two properties with homes just a few miles from each other.

The basics are this:

She let her former boyfriend stay at her other property until he could get back on his feet. All she ever asked was for him to help pay for any electrical/phone bills while living there. But after several months of partial payments to finally nothing....finally had to ask him to leave. Not because of any animosity..she did not have any against him.... She just could not keep up paying bills on both places.

He trashed the house and ripped off with the dishwasher/washing machine/fridges and a stove. Let his dog defecate in several rooms. All this for no other reason than to be mean because he had to leave. There is more to this but this is the jist.

She called the local deputy who expressed his distaste quite vividly (to be civil about it) She called her lawyer and will be pressing criminal charges Monday. For someone who would bend over backwards to help anyone. A true caring person....she has learned to grow a deep, cold, furious rage.

The jerk's name is Dale Robert Napier.......by the way.

 

> Never thought any one could get through that skinny opening

They don't have to, they just need to reach in with a jimmy to pull the handle.

A locked one wouldn't stop them either, they just use a screw driver to pull the weatherstrip out around the window and remove the window since it is a very quiet thing to do.

The best thing is a hydraulic brake lock, unfortunately it seems www.brakelock.com is out of business, at least on the web.

You have a metal dash, weld a bracket up and pop rivet the radio to the bracket which you pop rivet to the dash or bolt to the support near the firewall by going through the glovebox. Easy enough to drill out rivets, pretty hard to remove with a screw driver or prybar without destroying the radio.

Or buy a radio that is disabled unless you enter the code after power is removed, when they call to get the code for $5 which requires a credit card number, if the radio is stolen the police are told of the location.

Weatherstrip will not stop them, a thin aluminum angle underneath it will.

Many thieves carry center punches, if it is too tough to enter they just bust a pass. side window.