Why go to all the trouble of "cutting the front off and glue it to a block of wood, like a 2x4 or something". Why not just slide the whole cheap stereo into the empeg bay. That way if they did break into the car, they'd think they had the real stereo, and wouldn't start looking in the trunk... or is that the boot? No, you're from New Jersey, it's definitely the trunk.

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