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12-29-2013, 12:00 AM
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There's something you don't see every day - bullet hole!
After stripping the doors on my '71 Trans Am we found a bullet hole and two ricochet hits on the driver's door! Past life as a getaway car? When I bought the car in 2000 it still had all the original LOF clear glass except aftermarket tinted installed on the driver's side. I really didn't give it much thought until now!
I may have to search the Decatur, IL public records for any 1970's crimes involving a white "Camero" getaway car ... Amazing what secrets these cars hold, hidden for decades.
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12-29-2013, 01:23 AM
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Field cars get shot up all the time.
 Interesting find! |
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12-29-2013, 08:03 AM
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 Probably a drive by type shooting thing? (guys going down street shooting anything on road) 
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12-29-2013, 09:11 AM
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If these cars could tell their stories, some of them would be screaming!
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#5
12-29-2013, 12:09 PM
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Can you post a close up of the bullet hole? I want to see if it was incoming or outgoing.
Could be an Elvis car! |
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12-29-2013, 12:47 PM
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ex wife story maybe
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12-29-2013, 10:24 PM
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my 78 has a bullet hole. 9mm. there is a story to it. Welded up hole but left impression in trunk floor
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12-30-2013, 05:49 PM
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Dennis, can you tell what caliber it is?
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12-30-2013, 06:16 PM
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Had a 22 hole above the right rear 1/4 wheel well in my '80 SE. Right where the inner well was spotwelded in. Welded up the hole when had the car repainted in '84. Mothballed the '80 in 1987 with under 50K miles, too many wild times.
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12-30-2013, 08:38 PM
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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12-30-2013, 11:35 PM
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12-31-2013, 11:12 AM
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I think Raymond Burr would have figured that hole out by now. Columbo too.
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12-31-2013, 11:40 AM
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I found six .45 caliber hollow point bullets in the console of a '69 Judge I bought out of Dallas, TX back in 2005. The rear seat divider was also hacked out. Might have been used to smuggle items (or people) back in the day! The last license tabs were from 1987....
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12-31-2013, 11:43 AM
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12-31-2013, 03:08 PM
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My 71 also had a few bullet holes put in it. They were rather large too.
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