I only met the guy once, named Andrew. He lives in the Bronx and unfortunately he had the car street parked. He called me tonight, car is gone. He said he was able to street park it for about a year and a half, but the thieves finally caught up with him. He also said he had a hood lock ! and alarm(s).
This is why I am selling my car. I am trying to get rid of it, before someone gets rid of it !!


[Modified by davidnyc, 9:57 AM 12/18/2001]

 

where in the bronx?

 

I wouldnt even bring such a car into the bronx. Last week when I parked my car there I found my "H" emblems missing (these are the regular ones, no riceboy colored ones). Oh BTW I got my car stolen there last summer

 

He lived near Laconia Avenue (I think that is sort of northern / mid Bronx).

 

damn dave! my heart started pounding when i saw stolen R and your s/n! glad it wasn't you...again. sorry about your friend, that sucks. hope they find it in simliar condition as when you found yours. that's is the one reason why i do not like itr's, damn theives!

 

I feel bad for the loss. However, he is lucky his car lasted that long in NYC. My first R lasted between 1 and 4 hours (maybe even minutes) while street parked in NYC.


[Modified by Jon7, 9:27 AM 12/18/2001]

 

i hate to hear dat type of ****, fagets always crippin to take sum one elses ride.

they steal b-cuz they can't buy for themselves, Sorry 2 hear abt. ur friend

u can't park R's in da street, not over nite(Nite Crawlers r up, while u sleep)



[Modified by TypeGSR196, 2:40 PM 12/18/2001]

 

If it's not an accident, it's stolen

 

having an R in NYC or certain parts of NJ is just asking for it to get stolen. Especially without a garage.

The accidents, I believe, are mostly people who daily drive their Rs. If you think about it, most of us who had accidents are younger drivers in school or still living at home who have no reason to have another car.

 

Sorry to hear about another R biting the dust!...

What year/color was it?

 

Parking your Type R on the street in NYC.....




BONK!BONK!

 

I believe he had a black 00.

 

Sorry to hear! I thought it was you, the way it was written...

mine is still safe In the garage behind two cars w/ alarms and the shotgun next to my bed( hopefully never use it)

besafe becareful behonest

 

The BX is not safe for an R. I must say my car lasted about a month to two on the street. It was much happier in Westchester though. Like Ice Cube says "there wasn't a jacker in sight"

 

I can't imagine street parking a ITR on the streets of Bronx?!?! I went to highschool there for 4 years and during my first week of school of the first year, my friends and I got chased after by 3 guys with glocks...I hated the Bronx. It's not even the Bronx come to think of it...it's ******* NY. My friend bought his first car, an used 97 Integra LS and parked it in front of his house...less than a week...his car was stolen. I'm glad I'm in Pittsburgh most of the time and when I do go back to NY I have a garage to park my car or I'll just fly or catch a ride. This whole ******* stealing other people's hard earned ride is such bullshit. If somehow when I die and end up in hell with these bastards...I'm going to beat the **** out of them.

 

AUTO THEFT STATISTICS (US)

Every year in the U.S., more than 1.1 million vehicles are stolen. It's easy to become a statistic: just let down your guard for a moment. How many cars were stolen in your town in 1999? Check out this list, courtesy of the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report:


Country Crime# Country Crime#
Abilene, TX 255 Lowell, MA 723
Akron, OH 769 Lubbock, TX 696
Albany, NY 428 Macon, GA 1,638
Albuquerque, NM 4,693 Madison, WI 602
Alexandria, VA 702 Manchester, NH 434
Allentown, PA 563 McAllen, TX 906
Amarillo, TX 703 Memphis, TN 7,670
Amherst Town, NY 140 Mesa, AZ 2,851
Anaheim, CA 1,373 Mesquite, TX 610
Anchorage, AK 1,251 Miami, FL 5,723
Ann Arbor, MI 206 Midland, TX 166
Arlington, TX 1,720 Milwaukee, WI 7,414
Arvada, CO 224 Minneapolis, MN 3,866
Atlanta, GA 7,328 Mobile, AL 1,225
Aurora, CO 1,951 Modesto, CA 1,269
Aurora, IL 416 Montgomery, AL 1,400
Austin, TX 2,792 Moreno Valley, CA 572
Bakersfield, CA 1,162 Naperville, IL 124
Baton Rouge, LA 2,334 Nashville, TN 4,989
Beaumont, TX 805 Newark, NJ 5,267
Bellevue, WA 440 New Haven, CT 1,368
Berkeley, CA 845 New Orleans, LA 7,118
Birmingham, AL 1,977 Newport News, VA 1,102
Boise, ID 328 New York, NY 39,693
Boston, MA 6,764 Norwalk, CA 764
Bridgeport, CT 1,875 Oakland, CA 4,788
Brownsville, TX 351 Oceanside, CA 494
Buffalo, NY 2,990 Odessa, TX 190
Burbank, CA 548 Oklahoma City, OK 3,630
Cambridge, MA 431 Omaha, NE 3,586
Carrollton, TX 317 Ontario, CA 1,330
Cedar Rapids, IA 320 Orange, CA 480
Chandler, AZ 894 Orlando, FL 2,098
Charlotte, NC 4,848 Oxnard, CA 567
Chattanooga, TN 1,483 Palmdale, CA 475
Chicago, IL 31,524 Pasadena, CA 451
Chula Vista, CA 1,467 Pasadena, TX 701
Cincinnati, OH 1,658 Patterson, NJ 1,342
Clearwater, FL 360 Pembroke Pines, FL 603
Cleveland, OH 7,410 Peoria, IL 985
Colorado Springs, CO 1,103 Philadelphia, PA 17,711
Columbia, SC 740 Phoenix, AZ 17,959
Columbus, GA 1,241 Pittsburgh, PA 3,197
Columbus, OH 6,822 Plano, TX 290
Concord, CA 631 Pomona, CA 1,158
Coral Springs, FL 417 Portland, OR 4,690
Corona, CA 521 Portsmouth, VA 610
Corpus Christi, TX 1,510 Providence, RI 2,277
Costa Mesa, CA 380 Provo, UT 201
Dallas, TX 17,854 Pueblo, CO 303
Daly City, CA 393 Raleigh, NC 1,335
Dayton, OH 2,926 Rancho Cucamonga, CA 420
Denver, CO 4,991 Reno, NV 736
Des Moines, IA 833 Richmond, VA 2,101
Downey, CA 978 Riverside, CA 1,618
Durham, NC 1,654 Rochester, NY 2,047
Elizabeth, NJ 1,983 Rockford, IL 894
El Monte, CA 560 Sacramento, CA 4,460
El Paso, TX 2,307 Salem, OR 637
Erie, PA 246 Salinas, CA 650
Escondido, CA 982 Salt Lake City, UT 1,845
Eugene, OR 652 San Antonio, TX 5,595
Evansville, IN 431 San Bernardino, CA 1,795
Flint, MI 1,796 San Diego, CA 9,491
Fontana, CA 779 Sandy, UT 178
Fort Collins, CO 222 San Francisco, CA 5,977
Fort Lauderdale, FL 1,789 San Jose, CA 2,860
Fort Wayne, IN 1,324 Santa Ana, CA 2,287
Fort Worth, TX 3,899 Santa Clara, CA 289
Fremont, CA 569 Santa Clarita, CA 242
Fresno, CA 4,643 Santa Rosa, CA 328
Fullerton, CA 445 Savannah, GA 1,216
Garden Grove, CA 991 Scottsdale, AZ 1,057
Garland, TX 830 Seattle, WA 8,640
Gary, IN 1,361 Shreveport, LA 1,042
Glendale, AZ 2,286 Simi Valley, CA 161
Glendale, CA 743 Sioux Falls, SD 220
Grand Prairie, TX 1,059 South Bend, IN 718
Green Bay, WI 196 Spokane, WA 968
Greensboro, NC 1,339 Springfield, IL 373
Hampton, VA 462 Springfield, MA 1,449
Hartford, CT 1,404 Springfield, MO 737
Hayward, CA 1,134 Stamford, CT 359
Henderson, NV 778 Sterling Heights, MI 282
Hialeah, FL 2,798 St. Louis, MO 6,645
Hollywood, FL 1,295 Stockton, CA 2,140
Honolulu, HI 3,997 St. Paul, MN 1,900
Houston, TX 19,445 St. Petersburg, FL 2,066
Huntington Beach, CA 490 Sunnyvale, CA 207
Huntsville, AL 1,135 Syracuse, NY 750
Independence, MO 742 Tacoma, WA 2,668
Indianapolis, IN 5,434 Tallahassee, FL 923
Inglewood, CA 925 Tampa, FL 5,740
Irvine, CA 301 Tempe, AZ 1,988
Irving, TX 1,041 Thousand Oaks, CA 129
Jackson, MS 3,475 Toledo, OH 2,778
Jacksonville, FL 4,877 Topeka, KS 701
Jersey City, NJ 2,362 Torrance, CA 747
Kansas City, MO 6,750 Tucson, AZ 4,839
Knoxville, TN 1,360 Tulsa, OK 3,228
Lafayette, LA 629 Vallejo, CA 779
Lancaster, CA 391 Ventura, CA 211
Lansing, MI 437 Virginia Beach, VA 718
Laredo, TX 1,116 Waco, TX 1,022
Las Vegas, NV 9,772 Washington, DC 6,526
Lexington, KY 924 Waterbury, CT 661
Lincoln, NE 513 West Covina, CA 690
Little Rock, AR 1,173 West Valley, UT 678
Livonia, MI 308 Wichita, KS 1,672
Long Beach, CA 3,361 Wichita Falls, TX 465
Los Angeles, CA 24,677 Winston-Salem, NC 1,137
Louisville, KY 2,000 Worcester, MA 1,163
Yonkers, NY 1,274

Worst insurance theft losses are for Mercedes model; two of three with worst theft losses are Acura models.....

The two-door Acura Integra has the second worst result, with losses also 10 times higher than the average among 1997-99 passenger vehicles. These high overall losses are produced by different factors, Hazelbaker explains. The Mercedes has extremely high average loss payments per claim, while the Acura's claim frequency is very high. The four-door Integra has the third highest overall theft loss result. Now Honda, which manufactures Acura's, has equipped all Integra's for the 2000 model year with passive immobilizing antitheft devices.

During the 1980-99 model years, theft claim frequencies have declined significantly, but this trend has been mostly offset by increasing theft losses per claim. In 1999, the last year for which information is available, the average theft loss payment per claim also declined.
http://www.hldi.org
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Gee I wonder where all those B18's are going????

 

The sad thing is that except for certain rough areas of the South Bronx, the Bronx is a nice place to live. I grew up in the Bronx and like it. I have a huge back yard that had two large apple trees, a pear tree, vegetable and flower garderns, etc. etc. The median price of homes in my area is $200-250K ! In Riverdale, homes are $1M-$5M !!
But, unfortunately, the nice areas are easily accesible by "bad" people. So, I actually, take offense when people bad mouth the Bronx. The Bronx is a nice place (Bronx Zoo, Botanical Gardens, Van Cortdland Park, and nice neighborhoods). I have lived in New Jersey, Maryland, and Massachusetts. I pick the Bronx over other neighborhoods because of its racial diversity, accesiblity to the Arts and Museums, accesiblity to transportation, overall "spice" of life. But, yes, there are bad areas and bad people. But the WHOLE Bronx is not bad.

 

VEHICLES AT RISK FOR THEFT IN PORT AND BORDER COMMUNITIES

NEW FILM "GONE IN 60 SECONDS" RAISES AWARENESS OF AUTO THEFT PROBLEM

PALOS HILLS, IL - Nearly 40 percent of all vehicle thefts occur in or near ports and border communities - with close to 19 percent stolen in the greater Los Angeles area, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).
The NICB analysis reported that close to 450,000 cars and trucks were stolen countrywide in metropolitan areas with ports or close to international borders in 1998.
Each year more than 200,000 vehicles are exported illegally from the United States. Many of these were stolen in port and border communities, according to NICB.
"More and more vehicles are being targeted for export by thieves who sneak them out through ports and across borders," said Robert Bryant, president and chief executive officer of NICB, the insurance industry's theft and fraud fighting organization.
"People who live in these areas should take special care to protect their cars and trucks from thieves." The Los Angeles area was by far the prime target with more than 65,000 thefts. The top ten areas with port facilities or near international borders that recorded the greatest number of vehicle thefts were:

Los Angeles (65,243 vehicles stolen)
New York (46,709)
Philadelphia (30,355)
Phoenix (29,868)
Houston (28,263)
Miami (20,977)
Riverside/San Bernardino (19,821)
San Diego (18,685)
Seattle (18,304)
Oakland (17,293) (Metropolitan Areas)
"Law enforcement agencies have helped bring auto theft down about 5 percent nationally," said Bryant. "They've done a terrific job." But the first line of defense against vehicle theft is the owner, he said. NICB recommends a layered approach to protecting vehicles. There are four layers of protection to consider: common sense - removing the keys and locking the doors; visible and audible devices - steering wheel locks or alarms; immobilizing devices - smart keys or kill switches; and tracking devices. "The number of layers a vehicle needs depends on the vehicle and the geographic location," said Bryant. "Budget and personal preference should also determine which anti theft device to choose." The National Insurance Crime Bureau is a nonprofit organization supported by approximately 1,000 insurance and self-insured companies dedicated to fighting insurance-related crime. Footnote: Figures are based on MSAs as reported to the FBI Uniform Crime Report

 

I would like to meet all of you nyc r owners so we can get together and talk. or we can all just meet at hunts point

email me if you down

 

Hey Dave,

sounds like a candidate for R-Speed.

Even though we haven't had any good organized meets lately. Maybe we should plan something soon? I'll be on Pilot Alpins soon so we could meet anytime.

A.

 

i remember that guy... i talked to him acouple of times... he seen my white type r the couple of times i pulled it out... cool guy... i thought his car was unstealable cause he showed me all the alarms and cut offs he had on that car... definitely towed that car but its a shame... i use to see it parked on laconia all the time and wondered why he would park it on the street... and that was his 2nd type r... eh what to do u should learn from ur first mistake

 

You NY guys should call h.e.a.t., and setup a sting with them.

 

We should plan another meet - hopefully my computer will last long enough this time so I know when the next meet is!!

Whats up Dave haven't seen you in a while, or any R-Speed(ers), for that matter! I made a new site at Tripod - only for my hard drive to crash (again) and now it's shut down again - for some other reason - so I have to start ALL OVER AGAIN!! P.S. is anyone still on http://www.integra-type-r.com? I just made a comeback there today.
- Dan (Formerly 00 ITR 1515 - if you were wondering)

 

I'll send out the invites tonight. how about Christmas week?

 

i'll be back from school then