As long as there has been a car, there’s been a thief who is more than ready to acquisition an automobile for themselves. The first car theft is attributed to Baron de Zuylen’s Peugeot in 1896, when the Baron’s mechanic stole the car from the manufacturer, where it was being worked on. Over the years the methods for repurposing someone’s ride have changed, and law enforcement have needed to have the newest information available so that they could stay one step ahead of the thieves. In this training footage, you get to watch a simplified version of Gone in 60 Seconds as a thief targets a 1967 Chevrolet Impala as part of a salvage-vehicle operation, similar to the opening scene of the 1974 flick involving the orange Challenger. By today’s standards, both the method of theft and the methods used to track the thief are pretty dated. Besides, who doesn’t notice an Impala sedan just rolling down the block without it’s engine on?
I drove one of them!! When they actually had a Drivers Ed class in HS
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Can anyone figure out where this was filmed? The roads look very familiar. When the Impala is red in town you can see some kind of tower in the background.