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Originally Posted by 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 .
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What would the guy do with the Corvettes and trucks that he stole? Part them out? Drive them? Auto theft has been going on since cars were invented but there are only so many ways to utilize the bounty.
The steal/strip/reassemble plot is clever, I've heard of that before.