Beat the Tow Truck?

yes it is possible, but who in their right mind would want to do that

that wouldn't prevent a full bed tow truck from lifting it

you could do this and yes it would stump a driver , But i have drove tow truck for about 3 years. and can personally tell you if htey want it and they have a clue  they can get it.

If i came up on this i would dolly the car out of the parking area or what w cal dry drag. (hook on and take off)

If it was somthing like a repo or somthing of this nature where you get the car at all cost.

Also in a case liek his it is hydrolics. those are real easy to by pass with a very small amoun of know how.

Most have a resivor on them and there fore need hoses to get the juice to teh right place. Witch means there are lines going to each of he  pistons. If you hook it to the truck and set a jack stand under it and cut the lines the pistons wont hold the wit of the car and when you pick it up and take out the stands you could lower the car back down on the stands. this would cause them to colaps with no damage to the car or the pistons and then you could tow as normal.

So in short yes the idea in theroy would work but in reality it would be real tuff to make it fool proof.

if this dont get it they have what they call a crane wrecker out now. you litterly hook up straps that go under the car and pick i up from its wheels and set it on to the bed of the wrecker.

Just a word of advise if they want it they will get it. In most repos they have a release on it withc basicaly means they are not help responsabil for dameges done to recover the car. Most wreck seans are the same way.

other options would be hook up to it and wait you will come out eventually. and at tat poin would more then likly know your car is goign to go eather ya like it or not,

Just my opion

I would not spend the money on that. I fyou want to make your car tow proof .....

Sell it and start walking, that is a sing in the shop i worked at . belive me they are nuts when it comes to getting a car like this they love the challenges in gettign them :-)

actually i think they funniest things w ever ran in to is they hooked up a logging chain tot he frame of one and then tied it off to a big tree. IT was funny as al get out when the guy came out to find us cutting threw his chain with the cutt off wheel .  they make some short work of chains.

Honestly the best thing i have see for someone that has a car they are nto goign to drive alot and want to make sure it is not stolen.

Take the wheels off of it and then set it on some blocks close to the ground and chain it to a eye bolt in the concrete.

this takes some planning nd also is not sometign most would do for a daily driver.

We can still get them with out the wheels with the dollies ut at teh same time throwing dollies takes some time and is not the most exciting ting to do. So we try not to .

But if it is a thief and they want it they will get it if they reserch it enough.

Case in point i had a 78 monte carlo i was making in to a 1.4 mile car,

They stole it and it didnt have a shifter in the car at all that was visibel but the car was driveabel. and it also had open headders on it.  the rear axel was up on blocks and so was teh front end.

they stole the car in one night and nobody knew it was gone tll the am. (i was driving over the road at the time) I recived a phone call to inform me my car was stolen.

point being is that the car was pretty secure and they still got it. but the only thing is they had to have a tow truck o get it so they didnt have to start it or they pushed for a long time every person living in a mile of my house hated that car as i used to work earlie mornnings and it was loud!!! so they knew it whenit started up.

i wasent trying to beat a two truck i was just tryign to keep the car in place. LOL

I was going to come home at the end of that week and start to pull the motor and tranny out of it agian . But i knew that they liked the older monte carlos and they were taking them left and right.

I can honsetly say it was not a kid that didnt know what he was doing that took it.

They knew exactly what they were doing and had a idea of how to pul it out of gear from under neith the car.

but etheir way it is gone now :-( this s why i ended up with the 03 SS monte caro wife felt guilty she had just filled the tank on it LOL

but taking the drive shaft out will keep them from driving it off easily. but it wont stop a tow driver that just meas they get to take a choice on witch end to steal it from . No drive shaft means they can hook it up from both ends and it wont hurt anything in the car.

lol it was almost funny to think f them trying to figure out how to get it out of gear now LOL

But no i nevr even found as much as a head light from it.

I hav eplans when we get back to the states to find nother 78 monte carlo and make it in to a retro rod form the mid to late 80's when i was young and dumb racing and having fun.

but yeah we have seen some pretty funny things for folks to try beating the tow truck. the favoriot one i saw was they had burried it in t a parking lot with other cars that didnt run and they took all of the tire off of those cars to get us to leave it alone.

we just took three trucks over there and hooked ont to them with flat rollers and draged them out of the way and then towed it out of there. took from start to finish about 20 min.

also we have had them in alley ways so tight it was a wonder they could get out of them and those are funy to see the look on thier face when you snach it out of there

when that happens you call animal controll and the police they come out and ticket the pwner and then tae the animal with them. you dont have to touch them.

If they attack you as a driver and you have a ligetiment reason for being there then you also have the right to protect your self to includekilling the animal in some states.

I have never had that issue. The worse one i had was a dog one time had gotten hung up on the car and i had to get them out there to get the animal out from under the rear axel befor ei pulled it out and ran him over.

the best thing i have seen for GM cars to stop the avrage  thief (not with lots of experince or equipment)

they have a color that gose around the steering colum and it locks to cover up the ing. on the GM. cars.

GM. cars for years were so easy to steal  buy breaking the colom it didnt take any thin more then a small hammer and a screw driver and in some cases less then that.

this is why GM. cars were so high for numbers of cars stolen.

I took the shiffter off my colum and never put on the floor so it would confuse folks and it did its job for the most part . folks dont know how to shift the car the slow way down real fast.

but honestly if  you have the time sit in the car with a shot gun and yo will have the best alarm there is other wise any thing your doing is keeping the honest man from stealling the car. if a thief wants that car thet will find a way to get it from you weather your in it or not, that is the sad truth. they will just car jack you if they cant steal it while it is parked.

as far as the thing on Ebay. I have never seen one or heard alot about them as far as in the real world. so i cant tell you much about it. the idea is a good one but how good only time can tell on that.

the other thing if they even offer it in your area is to get LOJACK at least then if they steal it you might have a chance to recover it. some of the newer alarms have tracking on them those would be a second choice .

I personaly dont like the laws that go for stolen cars. they are last on the list to be looked at  due to the fact that most of the time other things more serious take a presidence. (this is understandabel) i wish they would ahve a stolen car div. to take care of trying to bust up some of the theft rings.

the only other thing i can think of would be put it in a garadge and have a alarm on it and the car and hope they dont by pass it and the dog and the one in the car.

oh yeah make the gradge out of 3/4 plate steel and the floor out of 12" concreat. LOL

that would be the best way i can think of