Then they glanced at my '73 ford, started to look incredulous and said, really? Then I dropped the other shoe, "yeah its such a piece of junk no oen wants to steal it".
I drove a beat-to-shit 1988 Cavalier for a while (complete with spray paint and a very large plywood spoiler making fun of Hondas with park benches). I paid $200 for it, and probably should have negotiated down a bit...
I kept telling everyone who had fancy new cars that I had all the same features - keyless entry, keyless ignition, theft tracking, remote alarm systems, etc. They'd look at me really funny, then I'd explain.
- I never bothered locking it, so I could walk up to it with the keys in my pocket and open the door.
- The ignition was broken, so it didn't really need the key to turn unless you cranked it really hard to the "off" position - so I could just turn the ignition and go with keys in my pocket.
- The car was Very Distinctive, and when I loaned it to a friend for the summer, I got a phone call every two weeks from someone informing me that they saw someone else driving my car, and was I aware of this? If it was ever stolen, I just had to tell people it was stolen and they'd call the cops when they saw it.
- Someone beat up the spoiler and the campus police called me to let me know.
