hardtuned.com 2002 Double 500 campaign.

CONTACT: hardtuned@jagpromotions.com

For Immediate Release

Hardtuned.com's Double 500 rallye car tampered with by thieves Monday night.

The 1976 Mercedes Benz, parked on the street in front of hardtuned.com headquarters was the target of stereo thieves Monday night or early Tuesday morning 6/25.

Oakland, CA (June 26th, 2002) - Hardtuned.com announced today that the prized hardtuned.com rallye car was violated by stereo thieves probably early in the morning of the 25th of June. The car was entered through the left rear quarter window with a blunt object. The only missing item was the stereo deck. Hardtuned.com estimates the street value of the deck to be under $20.00. This comes just days before the car's launch at the Double 500 on June 29th.

  "Here you can see where the idiots broke the rear quarter window with a pry bar. They also dented the chrome on top of the door sill. If they had walked around the other side of the car, they might have noticed the rope activated side window, and simply pushed the window down into the door. But I guess that would require intuition and deductive reasoning skills, which our stereo boosting buddies didn't bother taking the time to apply." hardtuned.com team spokesman Jeff said just moments after noticing the damage.

The stereo was cleanly removed from the consul, and no other items were taken from the car. Despite the setback, hardtuned.com's team will be ready for the event. Hardtuned.com's stiffest competition may come from a certain San Francisco team known simply as Team Sproing-Pug. At this time, no connection between the untimely demise of the Team Vlad Double 500 entry and the break-in of the hardtuned.com rallye car has been made to Team Sproing Pug or otherwise.

The Double 500 is a 500 Kilometer event for cars $500 and under. The event will get started at 7:00am June 29th 2002, from San Francisco Toyota located on Van Ness Avenue at Sacramento Street. Hardtuned.com's team will be there without tunes. The team has successfully registered and insured the car, and is otherwise ready to go. The Team will do the final prep on the car about 12 hours before the event.

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