![]() ![]() And then it was just a succession of lies and hoping people wouldn’t trip up and say something. It was weeks and weeks and weeks of setup to get him. So we had the master’s truck and his plans on how to do it. And then I took the originals and put them right back where they belonged, since I knew Chip would look for them. So I had Craig Chaffers, Overhaulin’s project manager, make color copies of the drawings and blow them up to put on the wall of the warehouse. And it involved some major modifications-chopping and channeling and wedging and whatever. The last project he was ramping up to work on at Boyd’s was his truck. He had drawn the plans for the modification of this truck 10 years earlier, when he used to work at Boyd Coddington’s hot rod shop. Later that day I met with the build crew, which was led by Chip’s father and some of the best metal guys around.Ī week prior to that, I had broken into Chip’s office and stolen all the drawings he had for this truck. Then he called the cops, who were working for us at the time, and I had those officers go over to take the report—legitimate cops. Then he proceeded to tell me how they stole the truck and the sign. And I said, “I don’t know, I’m in Sanĭiego trying to steal this Navy SEAL’s truck.”Īnd he said, “My truck’s gone.” And I said, “Which truck?” Chip called and asked if he was being Overhauled. So when Chip called me that morning, I was in the back of a surveillance vehicle getting ready to steal this other truck, and nobody else around me knew. Then Chris and I drove back to San Diego to steal the Navy SEAL’s vehicle the next morning, which was about two hours later. With a police escort, we got from Foose Design back over to the warehouse and dropped off the truck. They pushed the truck onto the flatbed and then stole the Foose sign off the side of the building, like it was some crazy fans doing this. Two guys get out with battery-operated Sawzalls and cut the gate in half because they couldn’t cut the lock. One guy gets out and jumps over the top of the gate. He’s got security cameras all over the place. Meanwhile, we got a group of guys we’d never seen before to steal Chip’s truck. We got in the car and drove from San Diego back up to Huntington Beach, where we met some Huntington Beach police who were in on the gag. Chris didn’t even know what we were going to do. We finished dinner around midnight or 1 a.m. Co-Host Chris Jacobs and I had to have an alibi, so we drove down to San Diego on a Friday night, planning to steal a truck from a Navy SEAL the next morning.
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