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Even if it didn't have the "cops look at me!" paintjob, no offense to the Internet Archive people but it doesn't really look like a nice enough truck to even be
by smitherfield 11y ago
Even if it didn't have the "cops look at me!" paintjob, no offense to the Internet Archive people but it doesn't really look like a nice enough truck to even be worth the effort of dismantling for parts (as opposed to just scrapping it), much less repainting it and keeping it around.
- pg_is_a_butt 11y agomore like the "look at me!" inside job for insurance fraud... we can't be lying, we told everyone it was stolen!
- dredmorbius 11y agoCommonplace vehicles with highly interchangeable parts apparently have large value on chop-shop markets. They're liquid. Discussion of this and related concepts on the recent HN discussion of why soap is so frequently stolen from urban markets.
- justinlardinois 11y agoJust liquid soap, or bars too?
- dredmorbius 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11500471 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11501491
- justinlardinois 11y agoI was making a pun, but thanks, those were interesting reads.
- dredmorbius 11y agoWhat is this "pun" of which you speak?
- greglindahl 11y agoGiven where we usually park it, of course it's not valuable.
- Sanddancer 11y agoThat van has been in production for the past twenty years, with few, if any, modifications to the internals. So nearly everything in that van would be very liquid to a chop shop. It may be a shitbox, but it's a long-lived shitbox, which makes it rather enticing.