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I caught a thief trying to break into my '66 Galaxie when in high school. I was in the library, which overlooked the parking lot, and saw somebody ducking down between my car and the one next to it, doing something to my door. I ran out of the library and through the parking lot, ran up behind the buy, and tackled him. I beat the living bejeesus out of him, too, until the prinl came running and pulled me off him. Turns out it was a student from another high school, cutting class to rob cars at our school.  scratched the hell out of the paint on my Galaxie, too.

Revenge can be funny, too. When I had my Trans Am I had several cheap stereos stolen out of it. I got tired of the cops telling me there's nothing they can do (they were right, of course, but it still pissed me off) so I got hold of an old Alpine stereo, gutted it, stuffed a bunch of model rocket engines into it, connected the starter wires for the rocket engines to the wiring harness, then mocked up an install in my T/A. Sure enough, it went missing within days. I never heard whether anyone ever connected power to that "stereo" or not, but nobody ever stole the stereo from my T/A again afterwards.

A buddy of mine set up a y trap in his car, too. He epoxied a bunch of razor blades all over the back of his stereo. His plan backfired, though - the thief did cut himself, presumably badly, and he didn't get the stereo, but his bleeding ruined my buddy's interior. He bled EVERYWHERE!!! The police were unimpressed as well, giving my buddy shiznit for trying to protect his own property, telling him that he could get in big trouble if the thief came forward and pressed charges (and sadly enough, they were right). They did take a chunk of thumb with them for evidence in case somebody went looking for medical help, though...

Matt,

Regarding the '70 Challenger, do you know if the paint on the car was original or if had been repainted by the time those pictures were taken?

EDIT: After looking at it more closely I see too many things that aren't correct, so it appears it was repainted by the time these pictures were taken.
Do you know if your parents bought the Challenger new?

Love the S4 !

Brent