Ever a Stolen Cobra?

[turnpike boy]

I took my wife to a very well known restaurant down at the shore one time, a place where there's lots of activity since there are many, many fishing boats around and a few other restaurants as well. All meaning there's lots of people around too. Since the table was out of sightline of the car, which was parked front and center at the door (got lucky), I kept getting up to check on it. On about the third trip, and feeling better because nothing had been happening, I come out to find some a$$hole with the hood open, and another with his hands down by the engine. Both were fully lubricated (drunk) from a hard day's fishing; both came within a half-millisecond of getting their teeth knocked out, but were cognizant enought to understand that I was clearly not happy with their behavior and about to do something about it. Consequently, they were instantly and profoundly apologetic. Hood was closed after checking on all, and locked. Battery shutoff was set and trunk locked. Lots of trip out after that, and this kinda took the fun out of the event.

It might be difficult to re-register your stolen Cobra, but selling all those nice parts isn't difficult at all. The car would cost the thief nothing; and if he gets $10K for the parts, he's way ahead.

Be careful....you truly never can tell when or where there might be somebody with an unholy interest in your ride.