This was the talk of the lunch break here today:

HEARTLESS thieves stole a Melbourne man’s pride and joy when they pinched his restored 1960s Aston Martin sports car on Wednesday night.

Worth up to $700,000 the rare DB4 GT model was parked on Whitehorse Rd, Surrey Hills, while David Rodd was at a restaurant meeting fellow motoring enthusiasts.

The group meets at the restaurant, about 200m west of Union Rd, every Wednesday evening to talk cars.

Everyone in Melbourne is going to have their eyes open looking for this car.  I will be amazed if the thieves get away with stealing this car.  With that said if I owned a $700,000 car I don’t think I would park it in the parking lot a local restaurant without having some kind of alarm, chains, ignition cut switch, and a GPS tracking device to protect it from being stolen in the first place, but maybe that is just me.