Stolen Cobras (My insurance comp.))

[Gunner]

Hmm. I wrote the original book on automotive security systems but haven't had an "alarm system" (I hate that term) in a car for quite a while. My Mustang has a customized and extremely redundant system I designed around an Ungo controller. I need to think about what I can put on the Cobra to make it entertaining for would-be thieves...

At one time I was researching a book on auto theft and associated with some... interesting characters. One claimed he was the original of the "backwards Corvette" story and gave me enough verifiable points to make it believable.

(Guy owned a beautiful '63 split-window with an original FI 327. He kept it in a locked garage with an alarm, with an alarm on the car, and the chassis chained to two huge staples cast into the concrete floor. One day he deactivated the alarm and unlocked the garage to find the Vette, alarm still set, still chained and locked to the floor, *backwards* from the way he had parked it. The note under the windshield read, "We want it, we'll come get it.")