GOBBER, you look like that guy from the American Hotrod show, are you under cover here? As far as this topic, any vehicle that gets impounded by the cops can be crushed, the way they do is just like when they put dogs down when they eat some kid. Just call it a leathal weapon. Also if you can't affor the imound fee your bound to lose you car anyhow. That why I always fell the cops are in cahoots with tow companies.
Righteous justice? Let's think about this for a minute. What are "ricers" really doing? They're taking the cheapest lightest cars that they're able to buy, and making them as fast as they can with no regard for anything else. Sound familiar? Isn't that what REAL HOT RODDING was all about before all of the "period correct" **** that WE invented? Hot rodders in the 50's didn't care about period correct or vintage parts, they were trying to go as fast as they could with the limited resources they had, and "tearing around town in their high powered cars". That's exactly what ricers are doing. Hot rodders were socially unacceptible then, just as ricers are now. So in a way, they're closer to the original hot rodders than us! Ever think about that? Every time I've ever spoken to a "ricer" they showed nothing but respect and admiration for my old cars. So they're not into the same kind of fast cars as you, so their **** should be crushed? Give me a ****ing break.
This type of law is exactly the type of thing that could ultimately cost all of us the right build and drive the kind of cars that we want. These type of laws are applicable to ANY DRIVER and ANY TYPE OF CAR. In the eyes of the actual law, there is no difference between doing a burnout on a crowded street in front of a school at 3pm on a Tuseday in an import, or doing a burnout in an empty industrail district at 10pm on a Sunday in a hot rod. In either case, the person can be subject to the same penaties. I absolutely belive that people should be held accountable for their actions. That's why we have jails. Our state, federal and local governments like to "punish" people by siezing their ***ets. The fact is, it costs money to keep people in jail, siezed ***ets can be sold to generate revenue (even the crushed remains of a car can be sold for s****). ***et seizure has little to do with public saftey and lots to do with generating revenue. You know all those guns that your local police sieze and "take off the streets"? The majority of them are not destroyed as most people think. They are auctioned off by state govenment agencies to out of state gun dealers who are required to re-sell them only in other states. Confi****ed guns from California are sold to the public in Arizona and Nevada. Guns from Arizona are sold in California and Nevada. It's not public safety, it's about economics. It's a bad thing when it becomes profitable for a government to "punish" it's citizens.
"Places like Moroso don't always satisfy the drag racer's fix. The track is is a quarter-mile long and for some, that's not long enough. Illegal street racers have been killed on local roads where the the length of the road allows them to top 100 mph." who needs more than a quarter mile?
If I was in the UK I would worried- your cars are next! som epeople on this board don't understand that Ricers/Tuners are the latest version of 40's and 50's hotrod owners they are using the cheap plentiful cars or their day (Hondas and Toyotas) hopping them up and going racing That said- history is reaping itself just like in the 40's and 50's there are few and far in between places to race a car hence street racing is growing again I am strongly against street racing since I was always brought up to believe racing is what you do on racetracks not the streets . so I never street raced.. and I feel impounding their car , forcing them to pay a large fine and maybe revoking their license for their driving is a proper punishiment but not until they start shooting those high speed chase drivers (a Southern Califormia tradition)since they need to be treated just as harshly!
Strange...hmmm. I seem to remember seeing hot rods doing donuts, spitting flames and doing burnouts at quite a few meets and shows. These "tuners" learned it from somewhere. Kids and adults alike have been doing similar stuff for decades. A law like this while at first might seem like a good idea to selfrighteous old timers in the end will be a stepping stone in the direction of laws none of us want to see. How would you feel if you got your car that you spend hours and hours of time working on, countless dollars, blood and sweat..not to mention time growing friendships with your partners in crime or even your children crushed for doing a burnout at an organized meet or got caught stretching your legs on a deserted highway? Same thing..different generation..different car. All this law does is put more and more control into the hands of the government and increases the likely hood that they'll move on to cracking down more and more on aftermarket modifications of ALL kinds as well as driving practices. I'd love to see this law brought to the states...it would get laughed at so hard the person introducing it would likely have to change careers.
You CA guys are saying the car can be impounded and sold at auction with the owner being ineligible to reclaim it... On the news a year ago they were talking about confi****ing and crushing street-racer's cars... So what prevents them from confi****ing and selling to junkyards where the car might not be resold to the streets at all? Just the budget crunch and the fact that they can "earn" more money at public auction??????
Let me have four fried chickens and a coke ... to wash this all down. Man, if I'd known what a ****storm this was gonna start. Maybe I'm not 100% in my observation, but there's a point in there somewhere. At least I've been enlightened and this has given people a bit more cranial exercise than the proverbial wide white debate.
My dad told me something when I was growing up I didn't fully understand "It's not the same anymore, you just can't find a place to race. There's too many people." Now that I've gotten a few years on me and watched the places we used to drag race get overtaken by suburbs and kum-n-go's I finally understand. You can't toss a camshaft anymore without hitting somebody, probably a soccer mom talking on a cell phone and applying her makeup, and I live in Oklahoma for God's sake!!! I used to be able to get out of town in 10 mintues - really out of town into forests and prairies, now it's traffic and stripmalls. It was easy to find somewhere out of the way to race when Pop was a kid, it wasn't too bad finding something to use for a track 16 years ago when I started driving (legally). Way different now, maybe it's just a generational point of view.
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