Ish,
Right again! That's why there is such a large market for California and Arizona cars.
Nope, they were not careful drivers except when it really mattered, or sort of the end of the story: After I found the car, I alerted the police to its location. The police arrived there; the car was gone. Fast forward several hours--the police see the car on the move and hit the lights and siren. By some miracle, the thieves did not try to run; they stopped the car in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, jumped out, and hoofed it in different directions, leaving the car in the middle of the street.
I was ever so relieved that the thieves took this course of action, for the Cougar could have outrun any police car of that era or they could have wrecked the car, something that happens more than not in highspeed pursuits down major thoroughfares.
From the We May Never Know Department: It could be that the thieves elected to abandon the car, rather than go for broke, for a very practical reason, that being the car was out of gas. When I picked the car up at the police impound yard, the needle was sitting on the big red E.
Holly |
