Sometimes I happen to make the same walking loop two consecutive days in a row. So it was one fine summer day (it wasn’t actually yesterday) that I stumbled on a nice Porsche 944 parked near the campus. Took a set for a future CC, and moved along. It was still there the next day, but:
lacking a few vital parts. Now this may be a fairly common sight in other parts of our fair country, but in all the years here, this is a first. That must have hurt.
That was unexpected. And painful is an understatement—
I became crestfallen as that second picture opened up for me….. sad sad sad —
Funny, I didn’t realize your Eugene was Newark, NJ….
Reminds me of long gone Soviet times, when people never left their cars unattended overnight – because of terrible deficit of all car-related parts and supplies and looting such deficit would cause. Owners would sleep in their cars, otherwise in the morning you had a very good (near certain) chance to notice that your wheels, wipers, radio (if installed) and a host of underbonnet parts suddenly grew some legs and went AWOL.
It was only twice that my dad had to park our Moskvich near our apartment block – in the late 70’s. In one instance he slept in the car and in the other the following precautions were taken: hub caps, pull-out radio, battery, wipers, hi-voltage wires, distributor cap and everything from the trunk was removed. And we never traveled light in those times, having a tool kit sufficient for an engine rebuild as it seemed. Or to vulcanize a tire tube patch (tubeless tires became common only in the late 80’s). Special wheel nuts we installed long before that. And still he would wake up a few times during the night and would go to check it out.
Unfortunately looting of this sort is still pretty common.
That’s too bad, hopefully the cinder blocks didn’t cause any floorpan damage. Did anyone notice that it seems to have a Porsche script from a 356 on the rocker panel?
What is a hoodrat going to do with 15 inch wheels?