[fastfredracing]

I dont know if you could call him clever, he eventually got caught, but my first landlord in the biz was a car thief .
He was a master bs artist, and pretty much clean cut and believable . He also, only stole corvettes and Dually's.
He would wear a wig, and go out of state to car dealers . He would get as far as a test drive , and while bull****ting with the salesman, would do a key switcharoo . He worked at a car dealer, and had a bunch of the little yellow tags they used to use .
He would then come back after the dealer closed and drive the car right off the lot and come home .
He once stole the keys to a black Corvette he was planning on stealing . The car ended up getting sold that day, and he was in Cincinnatti waiting to jack it .
He found where the new owners lived, broke into their garage in the middle of the night and still stole the car .
He had a bunch of other tactics , but I always thought this was the most ballsy and amusing .
He could , also look at a car key and memorize the cuts , then duplicate it later on . This was all in the late 80's, early 90's, so before most cars had chips .