Aston Martin DB9 on the block(s)
New York? No.
Los Angeles? Uh-uh.
Miami? Wrong again.
The photo above was snapped in New Zealand, and should serve as an object lesson in why it's unwise to park your exotic on the street.
Blogger Chuck Goolsbee tipped us off, saying that one of his loyal readers sent the picture (plus another that you can see at Chuck.Goolsbee.org) one morning from Auckland, where an industrious thief (or thieves) made off with the DB9's wheels, leaving it perfectly balanced on just two cinderblocks.
We could be wrong, but we're willing to bet that this car has never spent a night un-garaged since.
[Source: Chuck Goolsbee]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
deuce 1:37PM (7/20/2006)
All that money spent on this car and no wheel locks were purchased or thrown in? Lame.
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Jason 1:44PM (7/20/2006)
Did they steal the paint too? It looks...odd, like a mock-up and not a real Aston. Or is it covered in frost?
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Seb 1:46PM (7/20/2006)
At least Aston Martin can use this to market the car's 50/50 weight distribution.
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Tom W 1:46PM (7/20/2006)
Looks like a staged photo to me.
What would a thief do with four Aston Martin wheels?
BTW, check out the license plate.
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Louis Longo 1:50PM (7/20/2006)
THIS IS NEW RADIO.
I mean this is next-big-thing among car thiefs, its easier to stole than a radio.
And theres no way that somebody can prove that Those were his wheels.
I dont park anywhere.
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Otto Ingineer 1:54PM (7/20/2006)
The thieves are probably trying to sell the wheels to a buddy who bought the body kit for his MX-5 (aka Miata)
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Stacey 1:58PM (7/20/2006)
Why not steal the brakes too?
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Matt 1:59PM (7/20/2006)
At least the mutant, low-life, degenerates didn't drop it on the ground. However, they are still blood-sucking scum.
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Mark 2:00PM (7/20/2006)
gotta love the number plate
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GDUB 2:05PM (7/20/2006)
So i should return those DB9 look wheels i just bought of EBAY from someone in New Zeland.
GDUB loves his miata.
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ger3sf 2:05PM (7/20/2006)
Maybe the tires on the left-side were left alone.
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bgdc 2:16PM (7/20/2006)
Staged.
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Chosen1 2:19PM (7/20/2006)
Same thing happened to me the day before Christmas 2004. Granted, mine was a Sentra SE-R Spec-V with stock rims, but I came outside that morning to find it balanced on two blocks.
Pic for anyone interested:
http://gallery.thevboard.com/showpic.php?dispsize=Original&album=Chosen1&pic=Spec_on_blocks_2.jpg
-Chosen1™
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Tim C 2:21PM (7/20/2006)
How many DB9s can there be in NZ? If this isn't staged I'd suggest the thief is going to find it pretty hard to come across a buyer. The owner almost deserves to have his wheels pinched for that number plate though.
You must find it hard to hold down a job or get any sleep with the never parking anywhere Luis.
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bob h. 2:25PM (7/20/2006)
It is actually an excellent anti-theft technique...the owner removes the wheels each night and brings them indoors. No one can steal the car and because of its delicate balancing act on the blocks they would not dare touch any of the other parts.
Great innovation, don't you think?
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Andy 2:42PM (7/20/2006)
Shouldn't the blocks be oriented with the holes pointed vertically? That's a lot of force on the smallest cross-section of the cinder block.
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rlibson 2:59PM (7/20/2006)
whaaa no brembos on that sled???
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Redd 3:01PM (7/20/2006)
I agree with #11, it's staged. Look at the James Bond license plate - AM 007?
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KazO 3:36PM (7/20/2006)
Could be staged, though the license plate could just be a euro replica that you can get anywhere, since NZ plates don't look like that.
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James B 4:35PM (7/20/2006)
Thats a genuine NZ plate quite a few people have the NZ flag on them these days - with a number like that it might be owned by the importers. So it could be the importer who parked it on the street.
Its probably dew - they dont get frosts in Auckland.
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