Over the weekend, someone stole one of the Roadkill cars. Well, not a car but a truck. The Mazdarati. This is not a common truck, and with its yellow paint it stands out much more. There’s also the fact that the bed houses an Oldsmobile 455 in the bed.
While stopped for the evening, the Roadkill crew were staying in a Hampton Inn in Blythe, California. Mazdarati was tucked away on a trailer. Which means someone waited until late in the evening, rolled the truck off the trailer, hooked it up on another trailer, and disappeared into the night.
There’s no driving the truck right now since the engine is blown. As is the transaxle. Roadkill were prepping the truck for a shot at a 10-second quarter mile run. That hasn’t happened yet and the truck is pretty beat up as a result of trying.
So now someone has a broken, yellow, relatively rare pickup truck sitting in their garage. The automotive enthusiast community knows this truck and social media is keeping an eye out for it (many folks where sharing Freiburger’s post).
Is this one of the dumbest vehicles to steal? If not, tell us about some others.
Hooniverse Asks: What's the dumbest vehicle one could steal?
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37 responses to “Hooniverse Asks: What's the dumbest vehicle one could steal?”
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Ones that happen on a surprisingly regular basis:
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On September 10 of this year, a man with a suspended license stole a huge ambulance from a Broward County, Florida hospital. He said that he “needed a car”.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Man-Stole-Ambulance-Outside-Broward-Hospital-BSO-492876871.html-
“Florida Man” strikes again.
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I just noticed how super thick the a, b, b2, b3 and c pillars are.
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Here is one of the doors opened.
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It is basically a tank built on a GMC Topkick medium duty truck platform.-
Have a look at the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episode with Obama. It shows quite well how much space they don’t have inside.
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Ha, check this shit out
https://www2.motorauthority.com/news/1085032_we-tame-the-beast-from-white-house-down-sort-of
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Not quite stealing, but how about hijacking a tram? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6258ab462788e2ccf57488255d8ef7637d43a9b3a165c83db83980b0b7bb78aa.jpg
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It almost worked for Misters Blue, Green, Grey, and Brown.
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Sometimes, it’s not the vehicle in itself that is the challenge:
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This the lightest picture for the darkest post I could find. -
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There was a piece about a guy collecting planes from insolvent lessees. It’s pretty easy to “steal” a plane, as long as you bribe a ground crew, and have a place to land: planes don’t have ignition keys.
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That poor suicidal ramp worker cost Alaska their insurance deductible, but he might have sold a few Bombardier’s along the way. He pulled off some fairly elegant aerobatics with the thing.
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It was a Dash 8, no big loss there. 🙂
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Airbus is helping out by selling the C Series as the A220-100 and A220-300. They are some pretty decent planes, too.
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RIP, sky king
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Sometimes, it’s not the vehicle, but what you do with it:
More Dumb Thieves Busted After Racing Stolen Cars At Drag Strip -
I bought a car that came from a guy who moved from out of state. When he went to change the registration, the DMV lost the paperwork. The car was badly eaten by road salt, so he parked it. Ultimately, he sold it to me as a parts car.
I sold parts off it that added up to 9 times what I paid, plus I used several things, including the engine, for my own projects. Then I lost storage. I was planning on scrapping what was left, which would have gotten me about what I paid originally.
Instead, a local business run by a guy I knew told me he could take it, get a lot more money selling it as a project, and we would split the money. By that time, it had no sheetmetal that was both solid and straight, the engine and transmission were removed, seats and console were gone, passenger window was in another car, and a front hub was shot. Still, he took care of moving the car, flat-towing it about 5 miles.
He ended up leaving town in the middle of the night after being accused of taking deposits from several different buyers for the same car. The first to show up got the car, but he didn’t refund the other deposits.
Anyway, I went to get my car back. It was nowhere to be found, though I did find some parts off of it. I still have the taillights, which are now fairly pricy on Ebay.-
What was the vehicle? Sounds like it was pretty well vultured before meeting its demise.
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1970 Challenger R/T. It was a 383 auto car. It still had a steering column, some stainless trim, a lower dash, slap stik shifter, headliner bows, and a few other odds and ends that could have been scavenged. Wheels were steelies, brakes were drums, and rear was 3.23 open; those parts were functional, but are the lowest-trim-level fodder that everyone wanted to upgrade away from.
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Many times a race car is stolen it’s found a couple of days later. Usually they just take the tools as they are easy to hock. Race cars not so much.
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There was one stolen here a couple of years ago, the trailer and tools went missing permanently but the race car was found on a forest road with a fair amount of damage underneath.
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Wienermobile. The Wienermobile would be among the dumbest vehicles to steal. The same issues as the Mazdarati of being conspicuous with little relative value of the non-identifiable parts, but cranked up to 11. Add in that you’d need a hangar to hide it, and the Wienermobile gets my vote.
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That would make OJ look like a high speed chase. Isn’t the top speed 1 or 2mph?
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At least until you figured out the launch procedure…
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They could have taken the Rotsun, that’s arguably worse than the Mazdarati, it was definitely worse when it had the V6 with a broken crankshaft.
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It would be a stupid car to steal and not get caught. You’d do it for the exposure, not the profit.
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Official Batshitbox Catch-All Answer to Hooniverse Asks.-
There are no police officers on the moon…that I know of!
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Related, somewhat.
I bowled league with a guy for a number of years who’d spent 3 years in the state prison in Florence for stealing a van. You all know my interest in cars… one evening, I asked why he didn’t steal something fun. The response? “You can put sh*t in a van.”
He was also incredibly racist, which led to some interesting and uncomfortable conversations. I still see him around town here. He has a really nice late model Rubicon, that seems to get treated like it was designed to be treated.-
Vans get stolen to aid in heisting other things a lot! The good thing is, they’re usually recovered with minimal damage.
Case in point, my pal’s box truck was recently stolen, but first they removed whatever cargo was in it and left it in a heap in the parking lot. The truck was found months later with an remarkably cleaner cab area, down by the city dump. Like a cat with nine tales.
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