Re: Security

[John Hammond <426_maxwedge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's an older gent 'round here that has an Honest to God Holman-Moody 427 
in a Galaxy.
He uses the chain and padlock method as well but lets it hang down low 
enough to be clearly
visible.  The size of this thing looks like it was used to anchor the Queen 
Mary and the padlock
musta been supplied by the ghost of Davy Jones. Thing is so huge, unless the 
thief has a torch
in tow it's a fairly effective deterrent.  Ol' gent is never more than a few 
yards from the car so
theft of the vehicle isn't really his concern...If asked, he'll state that 
he's afraid somebody is gonna
yank the motor while he's asleep.  I've yet to decide whether he's being 
straight with his answer
or not.  Yes I've seen the H-M 427, it IS in there so the chain ain't 
protecting no secrets.

One of the neatest security devices, (and eye-wideners), I ever ran across; 
came from a guy I knew
that left the run position wiring on the keyed switch;  but moved the start 
position to a small, thin,
pressure-sensitve momentary switch mounted to the roof panel.  Don't know 
what this thing was used for
but it looked like a small vinyl pillow.  He had it mounted ABOVE the 
headliner material more or
less in line with his right sholder.  Upon embarking toward a destination, 
he'd twist the key, and
you're thinking dead,dead,dead battery.  He'd start cussing up a blue 
streak, damning the car,
the manufacturer, the POS battery he just bought, the Motherless folks that 
sold the battery, and
ended the tirade by slamming his fist into the headliner at which point the 
car took notice and
started as if outta fear of further punishment.  He said he had also found 
it be quite helpful on
evening excursions with young ladies that had early curfews.  One female in 
particular had located
the switch accidentally with her foot, (use your imagination here), and 
shall we say the mood
changed somewhat drastically rather quickly.  Car protected by this 
"whiz-bang" technology
was a '73 brown/rusty, four-door Chevy Nova.  For added giggles, it was 
always parked
windows down, keys in ignition, with TheClub locked across the steering 
wheel.

John Hammond


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Duross" <tduross1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:51 PM
Subject: RE: Security


> I posted here about this couple of years ago.  I ended up with a chain in 
> an
> inner tube and padlock like Steve says but I take it off before I drive 
> AND
> I have a simple alarm with ignition kill and a motion sensor and remote.
> These alarms are like $50 and you can install them yourself, just like
> modern cars have with the four-way horn, blink the lights, chirp, etc.  I
> have them in both my cars and the chain setups because I don't have a
> driveway and when I have them for the summer I have to park them on Boston
> streets.  One thing I did do was to put two blue flashing alarm lights on
> the column cover rather than one, you can se the two flashing inside the 
> car
> from a distance and I felt the blue to brighter than the red I have in my
> truck.  I only have about 14" of chain so one wrap through the 
> core/radiator
> support and a long hasp padlock it tightly up inside.  To cut it, you'd 
> have
> to cut the grille.  Been working so far..


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