So I’m surfing YouTube looking at 442 videos at lunch and I see a Green 71 442 on there like mine, so I load the video and low and behold, it’s my car from a car show last summer. Needless to say I’m a little surprised to see it there and a bit unnerving to see my car on there without my knowedge. I understand the car is parked at a public place and I have no control on images or video being taken of me or the car, but has anyone else find their car on the internet without their knowedge? Anyways, here’s the link.

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I would not worry about it.

 

By the way, beautiful car.

 

Just consider it a compliment and go on down the road. My 54 Olds was parked in the drive in front of my house on Monday. I walked out and there is a guy (older) on his bicycle taking pictures of it. He said he had a hardtop same color back in the day and it was one of his 2 favorite cars. It just make me puff my chest out a little.

 

Somehow you'll get over it

 

Thanks Guys, just as I thought over reacting and being silly.

 

Wow, that's a beaut Kevin.

 

That's better than the other scenario, where Vinnie [?] found "his car" for sale on epay [near perfect '68 H/O]. Idiot seller snatched a photo off the interwebs, of Vinnie's car, and was using it to try to sell his '68 CUTLASS with a BUICK 455 ["GM 455 engine"] and a LAME *** silvery n black paint job. When the seller refused to list the car honestly, I alerted him to the deceit. He didn't care, but eventually used real photos of his real POS car.

Later he had the audacity to send me a 2nd chance offer [I had bid to track the item], and then I accepted... and sent a "$2000 bill" with a picture of Mr. T for a deposit.

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:-)

He was gonna have me arrested for "defaming currency"
I told him, see ya in court, you bring your story, I'll bring mine.

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It happened to me, I punched "1987 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale" into my search engine (UK based) and there was an image of my car at a show near London.
Of course I have no control over any pictures taken in a public place, although if I want to use that particular image of my property I suppose I would have to pay a copyright fee.


Roger.

 

I had a gaggle of students come up and ask for a group picture at half past midnight after a field exercise. On someone's phone is a picture of me in camo paint and 8-10 drunk 20 year olds in front of my car. Ah well, I'll live.

Nice automobile.

 

What a great story !!!

 

Why don't they block out the number plates ??
Images of my car are on dozens of sites now, seems every cruise or show I go to it ends up on the organiser page or Youtube. Recently went to the Jafs last cruise in our state, with nearly 1000 cars ! Someone walks through the car park filming the cars as he goes and posts it on Youtube, my car ends up on the promo pic. I go to a street festival, park down a side road and find 3 Pics of the car on the organisers site , plate clearly in view. While im flattered I cant help but be concerned. With information on the net being what it is it would take a crook 5 seconds to work out where I live.

 

That would be an awesome story which would require pictures if said gaggle of students happened to be female

 

I'm waiting for the day I get "caught" snapping shots of someone's car. I'm notorious for taking pictures of random cars I see when driving or whatever. ESPECIALLY if it's a classic. That's the thing I post most on Instagram, random cars I find. haha. I always come up with compliments and whatnot ahead of time in case someone questions me.

 

Your number plates are in the public domain anytime you drive your car. I suppose anyone who wants to can find out who owns any vehicle and where the owner lives with very little effort.
I guess this is an issue in most of the developed world, but we'll have to get on with it.
On the other hand social media has helped people trace their stolen rides as well so it's not all bad.


Roger.

 

Getting pictures or video from a local outing showing up on the net isn't a big thing but I have a somewhat long story about posting pictures/video on public sites on the net.

I had one very bad experience with this sort of thing, I used to use CarDomain and put up some info and pics of all my cars. One day I was randomly browsing the site for other cars within 25 miles and low and behold I find a user within 10 miles used a picture of my car. Which wasn't a big deal in itself until I looked at his profile and he basically copy and pasted everything from my Cardomain to his and claimed ownership of all 6 of my cars. I ended up messaging him, politely introduced myself and asked him to take down them down. He refused and told me multiple times where "I could go die", clearly I was dealing with a winner so I asked him to at least not to claim the vehicles as his own. He refused again in another vulgar message, this time claiming he lives in a free country and he can do as he wishes, so I emailed and forwarded CarDomain the messages but they said they couldn't do a thing. So I just ended up deleting my cardomain.

I took it as a lesson learned and moved on until a few months later I began receiving messages on Facebook from some small local car shows demanding their money back. It turns out the guy from CarDomain was using the pictures to get some money from local shows through paypal. He was calling and telling them he had 6 cars, emailing them the pics and for 100 bucks he could bring them all to the show, well these people would pay and the cars were no shows. They would see the pictures on my facebook and assume I was the one they were dealing with. This happened 4 times one summer until I figured out who the guy was, it wasn't hard to find him on Facebook since he was using his real name and the pictures of my cars. Once I messaged the car shows he scammed they informed the police and he was charged and fined, had to pay back the money and got community service. After it was proven a crime Facebook "banned" aka deleted his account but he is back on with a new one but luckily he isn't using pictures of my cars, at least for now. Bad things can happen but I imagine what happened to me isn't a common occurrence. Moral of the story, take it as a compliment if you find a few random pics of your car on the net from shows. Just be careful if you post multiple pictures on large public sites, use watermarks since they can keep the common idiot from being able to easily take ownership of photos.

 

No depths to which the unscrupulous won't sink.
Btw how do you watermark pictures?.


Roger.

 

There are some free sites you can use but the best way is to get a editing program so you don't need to upload the pics to a site.

 

You must have some pretty upscale cars and car shows. Around me you pay them so you can put your car in a show

 

I'd rather know how to get car shows to pay me to bring my cars.

 

A few shows around here are run by large companies and put on shows for profit, these shows are only to line the pockets of those who run them. It is not uncommon for them to throw out 50 to 100 bucks to get some higher end cars to show up. They see it as they you got to spend money to make money. When you are charging everyone else $75 bucks to bring a single car and $25 bucks for spectators you get the money back quick. Thus smaller shows see the success and try to do the same, which is why the guy was easily able to scam them. All he had to do was send them some pictures and brag them up as show cars.

I don't see my cars as upscale though, two of them I did high end restorations on but they are not top tier museum quality stuff, the rest are quality restorations for a car that will be driven.