Getting away with MURDER aka zoomies, no floors, no brakes

I don't know if this topic has been posted, but after watching the Jimmy White '3 minutes & 30 seconds of hell' video with a bunch of guys in the club we got on the topic of how you guys get away with your cars. He's dropping the hammer wide open zoomies right in the middle of the afternoon!!

Up here, the cops hassle guys for the dumbest shit, my friend Norris has a recently chopped 39 Ford sedan, and he's been pulled over like 5 times because 'of windshieild height restrictions' and the car is safer than a new plastic POS honda! Some of you roadster guys are running open headers or zoomies, spindle mount wheels, no front brakes, no trans humps etc etc... don't you guys get hassled? One of my friends in the Poorboys was freaking out at VLV at some of the cars that are plated down there. Besides being lucky suns o bitches, what gives? I know you're in the land of the free but thats pretty fuckin free if you ask me!!

See poor bastards like me have to cork up out fenderwell dumps nice & tight, drive like angels and try to keep out of sight from the fuzz or risk getting ticketed for 'noise pollution' or whatever the rookie cop fells fit at that specific moment.

Explain & Discuss.

Inform us stupid Canadians so we can get around the man too-

 

If it's got a valid inspection sticker and 2/32 of tread, tell them to kiss off.

That's what we do here.


Actually, if you don't do a bunch of dumb stuff, they'll usually look the other way. Getting pulled over multiple times for windshield height is ridiculous. That's a cop that has a beef with you looooooong before he turned on the bubble gum machine.

 

I do custom work for most of the local cops here either on thier cars or thier bikes.It helps me get away with alot of stupid stuff that I have a tendency to do!

 

no hassles here, at least for me, I'm running open exhaust on my roadster. but, hey i have brakes all four of them and a floor

 

This often times is the key.

 

We've been getting a little more illegal lately too! I put exhaust cut-outs on my '59 (of course they havent been closed once) and pop's '55 has open fenderwell headers and nothing else. The plan is if you get pulled over, just say your building the car and its a test run, wont happen again
-Dean

 

I wish that would work here with a warning but they love pulling out that ticket book

 

I carry a dozen pastry items at all times. Little Debbies stay fresh for quite a while if you don't leave them in the dash.

Just kiddin' you cops! If you'd see me I look like I've had one too many goodies too. I love em'!!!

The real reason is, we have guns. Lot's of em'!

 

We have bacon but the pigs sign in disgust

 

I don’t think there is a simple answer to your question.

In this province, especially when it snows or long weekends the cops will up their attention and crack down on all sorts of things they otherwise ignore. They state that it’s due to road conditions or increased traffic, I don’t necessarily disagree — there are a lot of unsafe drivers out there. But, it gives them extra reason to check shit out on your ride. I recently did a legal U-turn on wet pavement (rain) and the back end slide out half a foot. I got pulled a little ways down the road for aggressive driving, I was polite and said “oh you know big car wet road….” all they did was ask if I had been drinking and checked my plates. No big hassle.

The time I got nailed for burnouts, they spent a few minutes looking to see if I had altered suspension or “ladder bars.” Both are illegal here, but tons of cars here are lowered and modified. But the cops don’t usually bother. I have to agree with other comments here, it’s how you drive that counts for part of it. Cops here can get heavy on Sunday cruise night, which is pretty insane some nights.

I was told by a “friendly” cop that if I ever got a ticket for shaved door handles all I had to do was argue a “grandfather” clause in court that I bought it this way, it would take extensive work to make stock and that the car had already been saftied at the point of sale. But he did say that if I had big primer marks where my handles were supposed to be then, yip, ticket it would be. But like it or not they could pull me over everyday for it..if they wanted to.....

I too am a bit perplexed at how I could drive a fenderless, zoomie piped, open hood rod in this city and not be nailed for it………

Perhaps we need bacon doughnuts ….

 

I have no hood,no fenders,zoomies(open no baffles) no speedo. I AM getting away with murder,the cops just give me a smile,and thumbs-up! As long as I am not an ASS,doing burnouts in front of the schools,orstreet racing ricer kids,im fine. At least here in TN!! Sparky

 

Tennessee is cool!

 

I'll have to agree,TN,is the Southern California,of 30 years ago!! I had to work tonite,but one Friday you guys' will have to come to test and tune $10 race or watch.My 'Home' track US 43,in Ethridge,TN sparky

 

"The kin folkes said, Jed MOVE AWAY FROM THERE!!!!!!!!"

If the cops are givin out no door handle tickets...that pretty much tells you to load up the U-Haul....

PLUS..isn't it real fuckin cold up there???

-Abone.

 

Funnay man! I seem to remember YOU asking me in the parking lot in MOKAN "hey man, do you think the cops will mind if I uncork these things?" hahahahhahhahahaahahahha I saind "nope" hell, what did I know, I live 14 hours from there! WTF did I care? Hope that beer on your seat dried out before the drive home.

 

Around here its the little towns that jack with you. Im not sure in my car yet since it doesnt run but on the bike thats how it is.

 

Um, where is this video? I need to see it!

 

That's how it is around here, too. One small town near cincinnati actually had the State Supreme Court take away their ability to write tickets on the 2 miles of interstate that runs through it due to their excessive 'revenue hunting'. I have noticed that cops give a lot less of a shit about american hotrods and bikes than the people running imports. I've never had a window tint ticket in my life...

 

Well here in Saskatchewan you CAN have a non fendered, non hooded rod legally as long as not in rain or not on gravel... but even then you would have to be pullin some stupidity to get stopped in your rod. Some cops do however look for the slightest infraction and then will send you for an inspection over it, but we are allowed to be bumperless, non fendered, shaved handles, blu dots, no hood, etc...(pre 58 modified vehicles) As long as you dont draw attention to yourself most of the time you are ok. They mainly go after the ricer guys draggin in town and such. The only thing you really gotta watch out for is loud exhaust as everyone is in jeapardy with that one.

 

Here in my town, its pretty relaxed considering the amount of old Iron in town. We have a car show every month.

I would drive my old 41 Ford coupe w/ shortened exhaust, broken glass, out of date plates, and (whacked out) working lights. I always took back streets or followed my neighbors back home.

The street I live on, we call it "Hot Rod Alley" because of all of the old tin here. from 32' up to 59's. Pretty cool I say!

 

Only for eleven months at a time............

 

Living in and around Detroit and it's suburbs, it's pretty much Anything Goes these days!!

I've driven cars on open headers for months, run slicks on the street and countless other infractions. Only time I ever got stopped soley for "equipment violations" was when one cop pulled me over in my old 70 Chevelle on open headers and slicks...

"Can ya guess why I pulled you over, Son?"

"Uh...you don't like green cars?"

"Nice try...what's up with your exhaust there, Buddy?"

"The muffler fell off last night...hit a pothole on Michigan Avenue."

"That same pothole knock the tread off your tires, too?!"

"Reckon so, Sir!"

"This thing got turn signals?"

"Nope."

"Wipers?"

"Nope."

"Brake lights?

"Yeah."

"Headlights?"

"Low beams only."

"A horn?"

"fraid not!"

"I don't have TIME to write you up for all that! Get this thing outta here and don't run it around town again till ya FIX it up some!"

"Thanks, Officer!"

 

Yeah, Motormouth shows up at Bobs (local Friday nite cruise spot) flat towing his almost completed A roadster so i can adjust his valves. Didn't want to wait a day for me to go to him (20 miles). Anyway, he says it ran SO GOOD after the valve adjust he decided to drive it home (20 miles in the DARK) with NO headlites, NO tailites, NO brakelites, NO license plates, NO registration, and NO exhaust. Pitch black out! If it was me, i would have got pulled over and SHOT at the side of the road. Go figure.

 

I believe this is the one that inspired this thread;

http://www.waybackgarage.com/movie/jimmywhitevideo.wmv

 

I run zoomies....plexi windshield....one tailight....no horn....uh, and some other stuff I can't think of. Just gotta drive like a sane human. No burnouts, no holeshots in the neighborhoods, no drag racing. Just try to change the stereotype that everyone assumes when they see a real hot rod.

 

I run open headers, and the only thing I've ever gotten from the local constabulary is a thumbs-up.

Not to turn this into an overtly political thread, but I believe you are experiencing the the inevitable consequence of living in a nanny state: "the government that can give you anything can take anything from you." I'm sure being a Kanuckistani has its benefits -- free healthcare, guaranteed Canadian TV content, etc. -- but it's not particularly surprising to hear the laws there frown upon smoking, hot rods, unhelmeted heads, guns. It's sort of like living in Mom's basement: free chow, but Mom's going to start giving curfew.

I would guess that the Western provinces (especially Alberta) are substantially more lenient than Ontario or Quebec with regard to car mods.

 

awesome video, never seen that one before, really like the "Super-Charger Heaven" intro... "DEVILMAN RUNNING IN MY HEAD YEAH!!"

 

The other day I ended up burning out in the school parking lot, right in the middle of the day! It was blatently obvious and everyone knew who did it, but nothing happened! Must be that luck 8-ball shift knob
-Dean

 

I got a $70 ticket for no windshield on my mod T in Tarpon Springs, Florida. I've never had any trouble besides that so far.