Muttley I'm with YOU man !! The problem is as Doc said that each state will vary. Worse than that, each consulting engineer in within each state has their own opinions about what is safe and what is dangerous. Most of them would'nt know the **** end of a wrench from the front of one when it comes to building hotrods, and have had zero experience about what works and what does'nt. Some don't have a problem with hairpins, others do. Some don't mind triangulated ladder bars (which replicate early Ford rear bones anyway) some think they're OK. You can see from this that it can get very frustrating at times. On the whole the standard of cars built here in Oz is very high - **** box, ratty and dangerous, clapped out cars very rarely get to see the road. From what I can see its the same in Sweden, and we all know what kick *** rides the guys over there build !! Yeah things are tightening up no doubt, but by the same token there are more hot rods on the road than there ever has been - AND of a higher quality too. Rat
Yep, I'm sure they will be looking at us. That's why the rr stuff ****s so bad. The pure junk out there reflects on all of us and we really need to keep up a good image for Big Brother. I guess once the politicos raid me and squish my non environmentally friendly tin, I can still collect my old baseball cards...unless that old time ink contributes to global ****in' warming, or some other "New Speak" nonsense.
i think what they are trying to say is you should take pride in your rod, that makes sense to me, it's not mandated, i mean that would get a lot of the piss poor put together rat rods off of the road. they are correct though in saying that you are an ambasador to hot rodding,every rod on the street influences the publics perception of them. some of the rules are crazy, but some of them make sense, maby we should adopt some sort of voluntary code. a lot of the public has bad ideas about rods due to the breeding population of rats,
So washing isn't mandated, it's only suggested, and I know that if you had a scratch on your fender that you'd want probably want to fix it ANYWAY. How minor is minor? I can only ***UME that it means ANY defect and would imply that the government mandates that you fix that scratch on the fender, that small pit in the chrome, that nagging sound coming from the p***enger side, or quite possibly the loose nut behind the wheel. If they had said mechanical defects, I would have ***umed otherwise. Maybe the meaning of the phrase is different in Australia than in my interpretation.
The disease is spreading ......... http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/veh...pproval/thesinglevehicleapprovalscheme?page=1
See, thats what you get for sending all them convicts over here! Oh, wait? ******, they were my fore bearers.....
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