I got pulled over two separate times as a young man in an old '64 Galaxie. The first guy admitted he just wanted a better look, but the second guy used the old seat belt excuse. "I didn't see a shoulder belt" Seriously? Mine did have the OPTIONAL lap belts that I was wearing, but shoulder harness? Sheeez! On one hand I'm honored that they wanted to check out my ride, but on the other hand, I may have been on my way to work or an important appointment! - not to mention the stress of not knowing what you did wrong or how much it will cost you.
I know you guys like cars, but do you need to take a few years off the builders life by stopping them?
I sold a welder we weren't using on Craigslist one time and the guy who bought it turned out to be a Sherriff. When he saw all our stuff we started talking cars. He owns a big block Dart and is a street racer ! I thought THAT was a little strange ! Don
Rose and I were rolling to Fall Wildwood about two years ago in my rodster when a Jersey state Trooper pulls up beside us on the Parkway and just kinda hangs there doing about 60. After while I had to look over and he gives me a big "thumbs up" and takes off. Very cool. One of the guys who hangs in the shop here is a Pa cop. We were reading this thread and he tells me it is actually illegal for an officer to pull you over just to look at the car,(as if your actually going to do something about it). Something about denying you free liberty. In my experience most cops are extremely cool about traditional cars, not so much with the tuner guys.
pulled over twice now on the way to work. both times they just wanted to check out my custom painted harley. both told me thanks for letting them check it out.
man i get pulled over alot now days.and they almost always just want to look at the car im drivin at the time.i live out in the country so i get it from county sherriffs and state troopers.and ALOT of the times im speeding when they spot me.but i never gottin a ticket.a few have told me to slow down as they leave, but they have all been cool. now if i get pulled over in our ot cars, ive been searched as well as my car.glad im smarter than they were.
I got pulled over twice by 2 state troopers within a 1/2 hour the first time I took my mine out on a major highway.I was goin with the flow of traffic,cars passin me,the first trooper pulls out and came up behind me hit the lights I pulled off on the shoulder shakin cause I just remembers I forgot to reinstall the vin tags.Pulling out my paper work and shakin he tells me to put it away and asks if I want to sell it,we talked for about 15 minutes and gives his business card and a few PBA card,tells me to keep in touch and have a good day,Now I'm late and now I started running a little faster and coming in the other direction is another trooper slams on the brakes cuts across the grass divider and pulls behind me and hits his lites I pulled over this time knowing I did something wrong shaking again he walks up tells me to put the papers away and said what ever his co worker offered he was willing to offer me 3,000 more than his offer he told me he beat out of a deal on a 67 vette and he wanted to get him this time. we talked for a while and the first trooper pulls up and we sat in a rest area on Rt 80 for a 1/2 hour talking about cars and bikes and I ended up spraying two bikes for the first trooper and one for the second.....
I wasn't really pulled over, but a motorcycle cop used to hang out with a neighbor of mine. One late afternoon, I passed that house and there he was, waiting for the other guy to show up. Back in those day's I had six flashing lights mounted behind the grille. Almost like flashes of a stroboscope, they illuminated the whole courtyard like blue lightnings in a thunderstorm, or a short circuit, when I pushed the secret button on the steering column. Woaw!!! The officer looked my way, but at the same time the flashes went off he masked his eye's with his police badge. I instantly turned them lights off, a bit embarrased. He walked over to me and said, with a smile: -"I didn't see that, young man!" Over here, those kind of equipment aren't allowed and I sincerely don't know why I had to discharge them at all, in front of a copper... But he was off duty at the time and besides, he's a decent guy and even more: He's into Hot Rods and such things. I like that kind of proffessionalism, when they can relax and just behave fair at certain occasions. And then I think of that scene in Dumb & Dumber when Lloyd and Harry get pulled over... Hilarious. State Trooper: Pullover! Harry: No, it's a cardigan but thanks for noticing. Lloyd: Yeah, killer boots man! State Trooper: You fellas been doing a bit of boozing, have you? Suckin back on grandpa's old cough medicine?
Yep, gotten pulled over to check out the ride, after a few 1/4 mile pulls in the country, on slicks, expired plates and had the officer laugh, also gotten a gun pulled on me cause I opened my door during a police stop ( my window wouldnt roll down ) Got a few friends that are officers, but damn a 9mm in my face for driving a POS 79 cutlass in a town of 8,000? Had an overzealous state trooper run a dog thru one of my cars, fucked up the interior. Havent been pulled over in a while, BUT, I turn the mirror away from me so I dont have to look at the fucking spot light in my face, put my hands in clear view, all fingers extended, until they get to my window, explain Im only doing it because I know they have a job to do and if they can see my hands they know Im not trying to pull anything. generally sets it in the right direction.
Didnt get pulled over but got "observed" once. I had just finished building my non trad t bucket back in 97,,brand new unpainted deal,but mechanically sound. I stop at the crosswalk during a red light & the thing's idling a little high & rough.Engine running,I put it in park, unbuckle the seatbelt,stand up & straddle the column. As Im bending over the windshiled with a pocket screwdriver and turning the idle down,I saw something *black* outta the corner of my left eye pull up next to me,,,Female Cop. I did what I had to do & sat back down. All in one motion,I look over at her again making sure she sees me hook the seatbelt. She honks the regular horn in the squad car and I look back at her. Window was down & she smiled and said NICE CAR!...she was cute too!
i gtot followed and chased down in my fully restored jeep CJ7 and was asked to take it back to the station.....after i did so about 5 other officers showed up so they could oogle it.
I've never been pulled over like that , but I like to race ( sorta ) the Maine State Troopers on the interstate. Whenever one is passing me I always step on it for a few seconds when they're beside me. I usually get a look and a smile , then I back off.
Yeah..watching the game in about '75 when I run outta beer at 1/2 time...leap into my low mo-fo black 72 stepside and bonzai to the convient store for more. Get pulled over 1 block from home on my way back and the guy just said he wanted to look the truck over. I was about 3/4ths in the bag but he didn't say a word about it...loved the truck. White letter tires were mandatory back then..
Had that experiance just a month back. Motor cop says I stopped you for a cracked windshield, but it's not cracked I say . He looks and say's, oh I'm sorry must have been a reflection of some sort. Then we get into a 15 min. conversation about mufflers .
I got pulled over in a 69 chevy pro street chop top truck with a thumping 427 so he could get a good look at it. With the tinted windows he didnt see my weiner dog and nearly got his nose bit off when he stuck his face in the window. LOL
years ago I was driving my 40 coupe on I 275 in Cincinnati when I noticed that a cop was in the next lane (3 lane highway on my side) but behind me for about a couple of miles. He finally passed me and yelled nice car over his loud speaker
O ya. Every time i build something new, I get pulled over a couple times. When i finished my T coupe i got snagged heading back to work from lunch. I was speeding a little, had plates from my Chevy on it, no seat belts, the whole deal, and all he said was he wanted to check it out. So i had a shorter than usual afternoon and made friends with a Butte Cop. They too, are only human.
My street/strip chevelles see thousands of miles on the road. Driving through 7 different states over the years I have never been pulled over, but have been tailed in Ohio. Cops did hot rods, just don't act stupid.
I was in the parking lot of an auto store in the early 80's once with my trunk lid open, replacing a tail light bulb. My car (in the avatar) at the time had 64 Impala bucket seats in it. A cop drives up and walks slowly around the car, looking it over closely...........I'm getting worried now......then as I close the trunk lid, he said 'You know the seats in this car are stolen, right?' I just about crapped my pants......how would HE know that? I had the car 5 years sitting in the driveway working on the '09 and other stuff. I bought it with no engine or transmission. So I asked him and he told me - 'Because I stole them for Charlie back in 64!' WOW! He knew the owner way back then and was a midnight auto supply dealer too! We talked for a while about drag racing in the old days and I was sure glad to get away from that scary situation...... The car now has a bench seat in it........heh heh.
Yep been pulled over more than once 'cause the cop just wanted to see what was in the car (blower whine kind of gives it away)...usually resulted in a half hour bench session at the side of the road. "MOST" cops are real people too!
A few years ago My buddy and I were going for sup and passed through the county seat . Going around the corner we passed the cop going the other way. Within a block he was comming up behind us with lighs on. There was f few cars between us so I pulled over figuring he was going around us all. NOPE in behind me. Now I'm older with a hairy face and longer hair but bud is clean cut store manager so it wasn't Cheach and Chong driveing an old Dart (65) up the road. Well when the young cop comes up I ask whats up and he said my exhaust. Well I had it up on the lift 3 hours before for service and the exhaust was fine. I asked what about it. He said it smelled funney. YEH in Feb with your windows up. Well then he mumbles about the old and new insp sticker then asked a few dumb questions and left. I guess just nose trouble and didn't have the balls to just say hi and ask a few questions. We had a good laubh over dinner. She had a mini stroke driveing my Bricklin down the N.Y. throughway with me sleeping in the copilot seat. She thought she was doing about 10 over tthe limit (speedo off about 10 0r 15 on the low side.) Along came a N.Y. State trooper. He followled behind and along for a few mi before finally giveing her a blip and a thumbs up. A bright red low car doing about 90 does get your attention. By the way it's a 340 MOPAR power no dead 360 or 351 .
I got an old buddy who retired a couple years ago as a motor cop- flashback to summer of '75, when he worked at Barrett's Exxon, our local hangout on the corner of Jefferson & Trancas in Napa- been gone about 25 years, replaced by what has to be the butt-ugliest bank building on the face of the planet. 'Ol man Barrett was pretty well off and didn't need the station, but he was a good 'ol guy and liked the hot rod/ musclecar guys, most of the guys in town with a hot car worked there at some point, always at least two in the lot. Had a wide lot at the back, and we had poured a couple quarts of oil in the back corner, and would do smokies across the lot. So Saturday afternoon, 'ol Numbnutz pulls up to the red light heading towards the station in his bright-yellow '70 340 Duster, and about a dozen of us miscreants in the lot including the 'ol man with his Eldo ragtop, a '70 440-6 Roadrunner, my '69 Mach 1, a 396 Malibu, standard stuff for the day. So we start giving him the circling fingers and yelling "light 'em up!!!". So he's looking and grinning, and when the light goes green, rips 'em pretty good across the intersection, then turns into the station- followed by the cop who was sitting behind him at the light the whole time... We all STFU and stood around shuffling, cop gets out with his best badass look on, walks over as Numbnutz gets out, then cracks and just busts up laughing, "You dumbshit, DON'T YOU EVER LOOK IN THE MIRROR??? We all lost it then, he's beet red and quiet, cop is in tears laughing Ended up with no ticket, just the 'ol "Don't let me catch you doing that again, dummy- and YOU assholes were no help", and the next week, the cop showed up in the evening to put gas in his nice 440 Coronet R/T with a big cam and Cherry Bombs
A few years ago, I was coming back from Denver to Detroit in a proto SSR pick-up truck that I got to mile-up for a couple of weeks. I was getting really tired as I drove thru Omaha, when suddenly 5 rollers pulled in behind me & lit the night up! I about shit, but I was completely awake now! Cop comes up to the window & asks if I knew why he pulled me over & I said no. He replied that I was following too close to the car in front of me. (huh, what car?) Then he quickly asks me to pop the hood, as all of these cops surrounded the truck. They all turned out to be gearheads, started asking questions, & talkin hot rods. It was really cool, cuz it turned into a 30 minute BS session with 1/2 of the afternoon shift including the Supervisor! The locals must have thought it was some kind of major bust, because the gumballs were on the entire time. LOL Got even with the 1st cop by trying to hand him the keys for a test drive. I didn't think he could do it, but you should have seen the look on his kisser. He was dying to go for a spin & pouted like a 3 year old, because he couldn't figure a way for the Supv to let him go. (heh, heh, heh)
About 25 years ago, I got pulled over in Kansas for speeding. No big deal, I give the cop my info, and he asks "Where can I find parts for my son's '66 Charger?" (I was in my '66 Coronet), to which I reply "depends on the outcome of the ticket, Sir!" He writes me a ticket for way under what I was doing, and then I give him some info on a couple of Wichita Mopar guys who had a lot of '66-'67 Charger stuff. Ended up running into this KHP officer at several shows in later years (very nice guy!), and his kid ended up building a killer Charger.
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