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Subject:s-a-f-e code on VW radios [a day early :) ]
From:Doug Fitz-Randolph
Date:Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:54:24 -0400

>> BenT wrote: please respond in pmail only to this type of question.

Ah hah - I thought I'd fooled you all! OK... so now that everyone is on to
me, I might as well spill: I'm an aspiring Heidelberg radio thief. I keep a
set of radio removal pins on my keyring at all times. I can have that radio
out of your Vanagon faster than you can say wasserboxer. But then what? I
joined the Vanagon list in 1998 and have pretended to participate for the
past 5 years for the sole purpose of learning the secret inner workings of
the Heidelberg s-a-f-e code system. A system which, I might add, has over
the past two decades certainly deterred countless tens of thieves from
stealing these highly sought after VW radios. I even actually acquired not
one but two Vanagons to maintain my cover. I thought finally the time was
right to ask about the code, but apparently I miscalculated. Drat - foiled
again!

Doug Fitz-Randolph
Freeport, ME
'90 Syncro, '86 Single Cab