And the preferred choice of car thieves is...

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spidereyes455

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I remember being a teenager at the time and my dad telling me the guy one street over had his brand new car stolen. So he said the hell with it and went and bought a used car, a gbody cutlass..... and it got stolen like a week or two later.
 
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I remember being a teenager at the time and my dad telling me the guy one street over had his brand new car stolen. So he said the hell with it and went and bought a used car, a gbody cutlass..... and it got stolen like a week or two later.

if that ever happened to me back then I would have bought a 3rd car, leave the keys in it and my wife at the time in the trunk....:cool:
 
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shawn1112

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Had a 84 4 door Cutlass and 85 Monte stolen from me in Chgo back in the mid 90's.
Thieves in Chgo would re-tag them, throw a Macco paint job on them and resell them.
 

Wagonman100

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Plus they are easy to steal, especially with a tilt column. Just bust open the side of the column to get to the rack connected to the cylinder and slide the rack to start her up. We used to get a ton of GMs as theft recoveries when I started working at the body shop in 1994. Chrysler’s were easy too, just pop out the lock cylinder and start with a screwdriver. Honda’s and Nissans were similar to the Chryslers. Plus a lot of the Chryslers you could easily bend the top of the door frame out and just reach in to unlock the door.
 
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Plus they are easy to steal, especially with a tilt column. Just bust open the side of the column to get to the rack connected to the cylinder and slide the rack to start her up. We used to get a ton of GMs as theft recoveries when I started working at the body shop in 1994. Chrysler’s were easy too, just pop out the lock cylinder and start with a screwdriver. Honda’s and Nissans were similar to the Chryslers. Plus a lot of the Chryslers you could easily bend the top of the door frame out and just reach in to unlock the door.
Why does this sound all too familiar. :censored: I plead the 5th.
I can say that I wish I knew how much I still enjoy the GBody and regret getting rid of so many parts and trashing a few GBody cars through my youth. What to do with the one I have now kills me. LOL.
 

Jeff Blagden

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and that's why our insurance company made us put imobilaizers in our cars or we could not insure them so when I have to start up my 1980 442 I have to wave a fob on front of the imobilaizer light or it wont crank over
 
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ahem... I may recall a couple GN's, SS's. 442's getting parted out over the years under " no questions asked" circumstance. They were new and still building them then. Interest on car loans was 10%-15% plus which is hard to believe nowadays. IIRC and guys who could not make the payments would pay someone to make them " stolen". What a shame looking back
 
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ahem... I may recall a couple GN's, SS's. 442's getting parted out over the years under " no questions asked" circumstance. They were new and still building them then. Interest on car loans was 10%-15% plus which is hard to believe nowadays. IIRC and guys who could not make the payments would pay someone to make them " stolen". What a shame looking back



UH yeah

just think everyone here that has a GN /HO rear in their non GN/HO was most likey stolen at one point
 
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spidereyes455

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ahem... I may recall a couple GN's, SS's. 442's getting parted out over the years under " no questions asked" circumstance. They were new and still building them then. Interest on car loans was 10%-15% plus which is hard to believe nowadays. IIRC and guys who could not make the payments would pay someone to make them " stolen". What a shame looking back
Ironically back when these cars were new my dad was one of those guys that people would go to when they needed their new g body to disappear 😉
 
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