If you attended Corvettes at Carlisle this past weekend, you might have come across Baby Jaws, my 1960 Corvette. It was the Hondurus Maroon one on an end aisle near Gate 3 for the 50th Anniversary Reunion. The Reunion was quite memorable, I will say. But not in a good way. I was a victim of the Gas Cap Thief along with eight others whose cars were under the 50th Anniversary Reunion Tent. I guess this is not the first time this has happened as we came to find out. Last year, some fellow 1959 owners fell victim as well. It totally ruined my weekend at Carlisle and I didn’t get much sleep on Saturday night just thinking about the incident and hoping that the car was safe and wouldn’t be missing more parts when I arrived back on Sunday morning.
My gas cap was NOS, cad plated and was the Fuller Emerson (FE) style. I am now in search of another NOS or excellent gas cap for Baby Jaws. If you can help, please let me know. You can e-mail me at kim@kimsgolddust.com I would very much appreciate any help in locating another cap.
Here is a letter from Lance Miller, Co-Owner of Carlisle Events.
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 help me spread the word.
