Gentlemen lock your trucks!

[junior]

Yesterday some *#%^@!$ came onto my property,got into my 64 dodge truck and destroyed the dashboard trying to remove the stereo. He destroyed the dashboard and also ended up destroying the stereo as well and didn't take it after all and only did damage. Now I'll have to hunt for another dash board thanks to that piece of *#%^.Unfortunately,I did not see him. Lock your trucks,times are hard and there are a lot of low lives out there.

[hampstead38]

I got to find working locks, I guess.

[63d100sixer]

I always lock my truck...and anyone riding with me does the same...if not I ask them if they did lock it, and if they didn't, thats when they do....its just habit, or I'm a paranoid freak hahaha..the only time I DON'T lock my door is in my yard behind a fence, next to my bedroom window, guarded by a 100lb german shepherd, and my .22 repeator behind my bedroom door

Im sorry to hear about what happened...PM sent

[junior]

I did straighten the dash up pretty good,withpatience and used a little body filler ,primer and paint,it looks decent. Thanks.

[HellBelly]

Sorry to hear about your dash etc.. Just a bunch of punks trying to make buck to fund their habit(s).

Regarding locking trucks, i do lock my truck, but these trucks are so easy to break into it's kinda pointless. About the only thing locking your truck does is "keep the honest man honest". If someone NOT honest wants in your truck, a skinny screw drive up the vent window rubber and they're in.

Basically.. I don't keep anything in my truck worth anything.

[MOPAT]

Kind of says something about the difference between how people thought AND acted in the 60s vs today.
Back "in the day" I lived in places that I never had a key to the doors and I never worried about it.
TODAY I don't go to the store that I can see from the house without locking up.
AND I live in a good 'redneck' neighborhood with neighbors that keep an eye on each other and their homes.

[mopardwh]

I've never locked my truck. Of course I don't even have a stereo or ever keep anything in it. I locked the Dakota I used to have until one day I found the back window laying in the seat.

[Hobcobble]

I've never locked my truck. Of course I don't even have a stereo or ever keep anything in it. I locked the Dakota I used to have until one day I found the back window laying in the seat.

You didn't happen to find a small chunk of spark plug porcelain in your
Dakota did you? I was shown [by a "former?" thief] how a little piece
can take out an entire rear window very easily. [Please don't try this
on your vehicle's rear window anyone.... it really works! ]
John

[heviarti]

strangely enough, my '62 doesn't have provision for a lock on the driver's side door, and I think the passenger door is off another truck (and has a lock). It also has no radio holes in the dash, and an HD gauge set with the six.... a little bit of an oddball.

My '64 has a provision for locks, but no hardware and an empty hole for the cylinder on the driver's side. I'd collected all the stuff to install a lock, and had it in my kitchen, and then someone moved it. do much for locks.

The lack of locks on my '62 nearly got me arrested or worse one day. I ran out of fuel at the sand plant, so I grabbed my paycheck, put it in my breast pocket, lashed two jerry cans together with a rope and threw them over my shoulder, and retrieved my 1925 vintage Winchester 97. I wasn't leaving it in a lockless cab. So, I headed for town to cash my check and get some fuel. I'd walked about a mile when the cops showed up because 'some psycho' (me) was walking down the road 'waving a gun around' (carrying at right shoulder arms) with 'a bomb strapped to him' (fuel cans tied at the handles and laid over my left shoulder) and 'a suicide note pinned to his chest' (my paycheck protruding from my breast pocket). I really wish I knew who called that in... I'd like to take them and have them tested for mental retardation. And the root cause? Door locks. There's actually a door bolt screwed into the body on the inside for the passenger door and holes on the outside of the driver door where it looks like a hasp for a padlock was installed. I'm considering installing one there again.

[Hobcobble]

The lack of locks on my '62 nearly got me arrested or worse one day. I ran out of fuel at the sand plant, so I grabbed my paycheck, put it in my breast pocket, lashed two jerry cans together with a rope and threw them over my shoulder, and retrieved my 1925 vintage Winchester 97. I wasn't leaving it in a lockless cab. So, I headed for town to cash my check and get some fuel. I'd walked about a mile when the cops showed up because 'some psycho' (me) was walking down the road 'waving a gun around' (carrying at right shoulder arms) with 'a bomb strapped to him' (fuel cans tied at the handles and laid over my left shoulder) and 'a suicide note pinned to his chest' (my paycheck protruding from my breast pocket). I really wish I knew who called that in... I'd like to take them and have them tested for mental retardation.

Oh man! Did you make the 6pm local news?
That's quite a story.
John

[digdoug]

strangely enough, my '62 doesn't have provision for a lock on the driver's side door, and I think the passenger door is off another truck (and has a lock). It also has no radio holes in the dash, and an HD gauge set with the six.... a little bit of an oddball.

My '64 has a provision for locks, but no hardware and an empty hole for the cylinder on the driver's side. I'd collected all the stuff to install a lock, and had it in my kitchen, and then someone moved it. do much for locks.

The lack of locks on my '62 nearly got me arrested or worse one day. I ran out of fuel at the sand plant, so I grabbed my paycheck, put it in my breast pocket, lashed two jerry cans together with a rope and threw them over my shoulder, and retrieved my 1925 vintage Winchester 97. I wasn't leaving it in a lockless cab. So, I headed for town to cash my check and get some fuel. I'd walked about a mile when the cops showed up because 'some psycho' (me) was walking down the road 'waving a gun around' (carrying at right shoulder arms) with 'a bomb strapped to him' (fuel cans tied at the handles and laid over my left shoulder) and 'a suicide note pinned to his chest' (my paycheck protruding from my breast pocket). I really wish I knew who called that in... I'd like to take them and have them tested for mental retardation. And the root cause? Door locks. There's actually a door bolt screwed into the body on the inside for the passenger door and holes on the outside of the driver door where it looks like a hasp for a padlock was installed. I'm considering installing one there again.

Carefull, once you get on those terrorist watch lists...

[soopernaut]

Strangly enough some vehicles didn't have a provision for a driver's side door lock but did have a passenger side one. I guess you would enter the vehicle from the curb side.

[65indypacecar]

Hey, bummer about the lack of respect for things some people's children have. I on the other hand never put anything other than the stock radio in my vehicles. I find no one wants to try to screw with a nice stock am radio . Also, I never lock my truck as I find if they wanna get in it, they are gonna anyways and break a window to do it. Rather not have a busted window and let them find nothing in there EVER>

[ksdodgenut]

yikes. in some states you can just shoot them if you catch them in the act, out there they'd probably give you life in prison

[sweatybetty]

Strangly enough some vehicles didn't have a provision for a driver's side door lock but did have a passenger side one. I guess you would enter the vehicle from the curb side.

what i have heard was that the polite gentleman opened the pass door for his lady first. kinda makes sense

[sweatybetty]

i never lock my own. if someone wants in, they'll just break something if its locked. but then i dont keep anything in the truck either

[Dood]

i never lock my own. if someone wants in, they'll just break something if its locked. but then i dont keep anything in the truck either

This. And my locks don't work.

[Txas2step]

I read somewhere...maybe here, that the early vehicles only had exterior locks on the passenger side because it was illegal to exit the vehicle on the drivers side when parked at the curb,so you locked inside and slid over and exited on the passenger side.....urban myth?

[Enon]

So, we have a certified suicide bomber on the forums I park my jeep outside, my wifes car in the garage. I don't lock the jeep. If you saw it, you would know why. We had a rash of break in's like 2 years ago. This also included a vehicle theft!! My jeep was untouched!! Didn't take the 10" sub, 2 amps, head unit, or cash in the vehicle. But everyone else on the block got some stuff at least looked at by the thieves. I beat the crap out of the jeep. Maybe they thought that it was abandoned or a hobo's home

[Seff]

So, we have a certified suicide bomber on the forums I park my jeep outside, my wifes car in the garage. I don't lock the jeep. If you saw it, you would know why. We had a rash of break in's like 2 years ago. This also included a vehicle theft!! My jeep was untouched!! Didn't take the 10" sub, 2 amps, head unit, or cash in the vehicle. But everyone else on the block got some stuff at least looked at by the thieves. I beat the crap out of the jeep. Maybe they thought that it was abandoned or a hobo's home

sounds like my step dads 73 Powerwagon. its been thru hell and back, sad thing is it runs better then most of the other cars my family own. haha