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Originally Posted by jackal
reading through this thread only really infuriates me towards the way modified cars are looked at and ticketed. whens the last time anyone saw a sick resto mod car with a box 1? that shit wouldn't pass ever. if my car ever got a box 1 it would never see the road again. which says nothing about it's safety. It spends 98% of it's life on a race track. it's caged and low and cambered and loudish (not obnoxious) and has no interior but i still drive it on the road from time to time. i put 500 ish kms on it at the beginning of the spring just the break in a new motor. the car has better brakes, better tires, better suspension, a full roll cage, proper harnesses but of course all that screams vi. should it? not in my opinion.
some shitty van with desperately squealing brakes or a pickup with the muffler swaying around b/c the pipes have rusted through or a car with no working brake lights. these are vi worthy infractions
say what you want about how this duke guy decided to react to the vi but honestly there is nothing on that car that i would deem unsafe based on the pictures in this thread. not even the camber assuming the tires were in good condition.
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Last sentence of what you wrote apart, I have said the same thing verbatim before on here.
I see it everyday, piece of crap 1980's car or truck, smoking like crazy, holding up traffic doing 60km/h on the highway, burnt out lights, damaged all over, driven by someone who should have done the world a favour and crawled into a grave 20 years ago. (sorry peeps, if you have grandparents that still drive, know that I hate you and them to your core)
Think what you want about my FX, but the reality is, that I've got some of the stickiest high performance 295 series tires and brakes bigger than most people's wheels. Now granted, I've yet to be targeted, but I also don't tend to draw a lot of attention to myself when I am in the FX (I know shocking considering the fugly blue wrap).
The thing is, I see many modified cars that are so well taken care of, the owners take pride and joy in perfectly maintaining some of their 10+ year old honda's, the car is like new mechanically. And yet these people are targetted for the very same modifications. While other stock cars that likely have balding tires that are 10 years old, and suspension with shocks that are totally clapped out continue to run around totally free.
Now the flip side of this is also true, there are retarded drift slut owners (probably live in the valley and post daily on VCC), who drive stupid cars that probably should just be crushed. Yes, I'm sorry I said it, you loser with your zip tied bumper, and bandaid sticker overtop of your big dented quarter panel, your stupid 240sx deserves to be crushed into the size of an ice cube, and you should ride the bus.
So really until people stop being stupid, it's a free for all out here.