There are gangs of Car Thief's that just steel cars for parts that are ON
ORDER.
The new BMW open roadster is one of the most popular cars to steal but
they're found stripped down when they find them.
Same goes for about 50% of the Chevy trucks ........... just stolen for
parts.
I can see that about everything VW south of the border is a market for
Syncro parts.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: STOLEN SYNCRO - Where Do They Go?

RE: Others Comments on This Thread
The thing that bothers me is that several of the thefts reported have
all the Hallmarks of someone that was targeting the specific vehicle,
knew what it was and where it was.
Over the years in the Amateur Astronomy community there have been
several incidents of stolen equipment (usually telescopes) that
clearly had to be someone the owner knew, like stolen from a public
storage area and only the many parts of the complex, disassembled
telescope taken, nothing else touched.  I just returned from a week
long event with 700 other astronomers and at such events we commonly
leave tens of thousands of dollars of equipment sitting out (scopes,
mounts, even $600 eyepieces and $2,000 CCD cameras) with no problems
at the events. (There have been exceptions in other parts of the
country). But, because of some isolated incidents, you have to wonder
about the guy you have never met before that takes a detailed interest
in your equipment.  I'm beginning to think that the same caution might
apply in the Vanagon/Westfalia community.