Hi Mike
You have my sympathy, we too have been the target of this vandalism, a
couple of Christmases ago two of our classics had door glass broken, and
also door mirrors kicked off this summer. A lot of other more modern cars
were also "done". Makes you want to catch them and rip out their gizzards! I
hope you have some luck with the Police, ours were next to useless and less
than interested in our plight! We now have several cctv cameras which we
tried to cover the average parking area we regularly use, all were ok during
daylight, but lacked the resolution with the IR capability to see in the
dark.
We would need to have a couple of big IR lamps to provide the degree of
resolution needed for identity of these ")(*_)*$$#^$^"#()(("^#"#%" makes me
too mad to describe them politely!
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From "Michael Hargreave Mawson"
Subject: Not mindless vandalism at all...
> Dear All,
> What surprises me this time is that when I reported the crime to the
> Police, they told me that large numbers of classic cars in the area had
> been targeted last night, with mine ('77) being the newest. The oldest
> so far reported is a '59 Morris Minor that had had every single piece of
> window glass smashed.
>
> Can anyone even begin to imagine a reason why a vandal would set out
> deliberately to smash up classics? Particularly when some of them were
> hardly in concourse condition in the first place? Why hit a Spit when
> you could mangle a Merc, or bash a BMW?
>
> Wrecking a Spitfire is bad enough, but smashing up a car as cute as a
> split-screen Moggy Minor is akin to kicking puppies.
>
> ATB
> --
> Mike
> Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV
> Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL
> Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FH105671
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