zandome

To the thief stealing gas caps during Corvettes at Carlisle- THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU!

Dear Thief-

First, I’d like to thank you for the sleepless night last evening. I could not sleep because I was furious after hearing that for a second year in a row you have stolen vintage Corvette gas caps from wonderful friends and supporters of Corvettes at Carlisle. Ironically enough my team and I should be glowing because we had record numbers throughout our weekend and the weather was downright incredible. However, my mind is in another direction and I’d like to share it with you and the Corvette community as a whole.

Many of you might know that when I have a vision or a dream I go after it. I give my all to succeed. My new mission is to have you caught and put behind bars. I intend to succeed at this too. I’m a firm believer that good things come to good people. And on the other hand - bad things come to bad people. You are a downright bad person. Things might seem wonderful for you now, especially after such a successful weekend of stealing other people’s hard earned property. I’m guessing you’ll most likely try to sell these gas caps – and you’ll probably get some money. What I just don’t understand, and will never understand, is how you can sleep at night knowing how many people you’ve upset this past weekend (9 gas caps were reported stolen this weekend).

To those of you that had your gas caps stolen, please accept my sincere apologies. Please note that in the special display areas such as the 50th Anniversary, we had a security guard on duty all through the evening. However a couple of the owners let me know they felt the thief took the gas caps in the morning, right under our noses. To say I’m upset about this is an understatement.

With all of this said…I’m asking for the entire Corvette community to come together. Let’s join forces and find the person or circle of people that are stealing innocent enthusiasts and businesses owner’s products. If you see somebody that’s taking off a gas cap question find a security guard and tell them. What I enjoy most about the Corvette hobby is the true camaraderie and passion behind it. Again, I’m asking the entire Corvette community to come together as a whole and let’s find the few bad seeds and weed them out. I give you my word I’ll do my best.

If you have any ideas of how we can catch this person, I urge you to email me: lancem@carlisleevents.com.

Thief – if you have a change of heart after reading this letter and you want to return the gas caps – you can ship all of them to me and I will make sure they get back to their rightful owners. You can send the caps to me at the following address: Carlisle Events (attention: Lance Miller), 1000 Bryn Mawr Road; Carlisle PA 17013.

Thank you for your time.

Very aggravated,

Lance Miller

PS Please cut & paste this message everywhere you feel would help spread the word - we need to come together on this one! I appreciate your help & plan on personally contacting editors at various automotive magazines to hel

0Road-Race Vette

Well said Lance!!!! Nothing worse than a thief .
I think I can speak for the thousands who attend Corvettes at Carlisle year after year,When I say it is the greatest vette show.
To think that someone purposely comes there to steal is well.... disturbing to say the least.

I hope the person responsible for this is caught and punished appropriately. I suppose we all just need to keep our eyes and ears open while there from now on. That way, we become the security force in some small way.....

Keep up the good work, and see you next year. This year was an absolute blast!!!!!!

Sincerely,
Stan

http://www.2ndgenrestorations.com

Muddywaters

I disagree...regarding calling security (if you can catch him, or her in the act), IMHO, a beating is in order! Muddy

427SIXPACK

Why dont we all chip in & pledge $10.00 ea & offer a reward to capture the "TURD" ........... this might just flush out '"Mr. Mullet" from the crowd...........

avalonjohn

i think this was cut and pasted from another source.......posted here by a new member.

OURSHARK

Well said Lance. I didn't know about this theft. Now that I and everyone else on the forum knows about it, we will be watching out for the thief next year. It seems that what ever the event, there is always a bad seed that ruins a good time for some people. I would enjoy getting my hands on this creep. I hope he or she is not a member of this forum, I believe there are good people here.

bluthundr

I would say next year, go get a $5 gas cap from Autozone and leave the good one at home.

Derrick Reynolds

Lance posted this himself on the "National Events" board here.

GD70

Good idea. Just stinks we need to think & live this way.

avalonjohn

so Lance is Zandome?

skaping

There's got to be a lot of pictures and video from the event. If anyone took any pictures etc. they can look carefully in the background. Any suspects can be sent to Lance.

427SIXPACK

CURIOUS:

Why was'nt anyone watching "THIS YEAR" thats what they said they were going to do..........LAST YEAR !!!!

avalonjohn

were these taken from the swap meet area or off cars?

Derrick Reynolds

No, Lance is "Racelance" here on the Corvette Forum. I don't know where "Zandome" got this, but it's not like he stole it from some source and/or that Lance didn't want us to read what he wrote. In other words, I see no harm and no foul here.

avalonjohn

no.....i wasn't implying there was.....my point was that people were responding to this particular post, with opening remarks like "well said Lance"...."keep up the good work"...."see you next year".........i was just trying to point out it seemed to me Lance Miller did not post this "here" in the "general section" and may not even know it is here.....that's all.

0Road-Race Vette

Yes, I see that, but I figured I would answer back to the source, as he is on here once in a while.

another-user

cant say ive paid much attention to the going rate on old gas caps. are these things really worth ripping off and selling, or is it more just for ****s and giggles?

Billysvette

First,i hate a thief,they should have their hands or their richards cut off.These people have no conscience and they could give a rats *** about how you feel.When caught,all they will say is IM SORRY ,IM SORRY,dont call the police,real low life turds.I have no mercy for these types of people.If i hear anything i sure will let so body know,thanks for posting this. Bill

bkvette3

In my books - NOTHING WORSE THAN A THIEF.

...Roger...

Find some kind of dye to put on the caps next year , then look for the guy with discolored fingers. Cut his nutz off (so he can't reproduce).