Bob-
Very sorry about that bad news! (Having been at/in the San Diego
event.)
Anyway, whats the chances of local folks/racers helping look out
for you? Some how I suspect the odds of ANY or VERY few Fikse wheels
being in Topeka! They should stand out like a sore thumb.
Good luck,
Bill Sanford
PS- I also suspect sadly that the Values in each theft were probably
pretty close to each other!
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:35:42 EDT
From: BobTunnell@aol.com
Subject: BMW Wheels Stolen
[cross posting to team.net, E36M3, E46M3, rmsolo, and rmc-bmwcca lists]
Rotten news from the Topeka ProSolo...
Sometime during the night Friday (4/12/02) thieves broke into our
enclosed
trailer parked right outside the AmeriSuites Hotel (SW 6th, near
Wannamaker)
and stole two sets of wheels with Hoosiers for the 2001 BMW M3 we're
driving
this year.
One was a set of Fikse FM5 (5-spoke) wheels, 18" x 8" and 18" x 9" with
a 120
x 5 bolt pattern mounted with sticker 245/35/18 and 285/30/18 Hoosier
A3S03's.
The other set of wheels were Mille Miglia Sport (5-spoke) also 18" x 8"
and
18" x 9" with a 120 x 5 bolt pattern mounted with used 245/35/18 and
275/35/18 Hoosier A3S03's.
The brain surgeons moved aside our aluminum floor jack, 35mm camera
gear, and
video camera gear, and completely ignored two tool boxes sitting right
next
to the door. Honda Spree scooter wasn't touched and they made no
attempt to
steal the M3. They just wanted wheels.
On Thursday night at the same hotel, they jerks apparently attempted to
break
into another trailer belonging to Iain Mannix and Kevin Wenzel. The
padlock
(same size as mine) on their trailer had marks from a bolt cutter, but
they
couldn't bite through it. Evidently they bought a bigger pair of bolt
cutters and came back on Friday night. They also covered yet another
trailer
with graffiti.
Please spread the word and be on the lookout for these wheels which will
probably pop up for sale somewhere. Also, if you're planning on
attending
any events in Topeka and staying at the AmeriSuites Hotel (one of the
nicer
hotels in the "safer" part of town), I'd put pressure on hotel
management to
get some freekin' security since they obviously now have a significant
problem.
If you have any leads on our wheels, please contact me at
bobt@tunnellracing.com or bobtunnell@aol.com.
Thank you,
Bob Tunnell
PS. If this sounds familiar, yes, it was 10 years ago this month our
race
car and trailer were stolen from the Marriott Hotel in San Diego.
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