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Originally Posted by underscore
I'm glad somebody gets the points I'm trying to make. If someone wants to bring this beyond the car community they better be thinking about how they're going to be perceived by non-car people, and I don't think many are.
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Bingo! Perception and optics are everything. We're the ones in the bubble looking out and we have all lived within a huge gray area for decades. Why the law has their hackles up now and how to lower those hackles is the real issue at hand. If it takes a bunch of legitimate complaints from misrepresented infractions on stock vehicles then so be it. Maybe that will force the higher ups to re-evaluate their protocol so they don't continue to take heat from the public. But they have to be solid iron clad examples, not borderline illegal modified cars.
It is a massive uphill battle and really one that needs some time to pass. Forcing the laws hand is very difficult and must be done in a responsible mature way with hard facts so it is received well. Otherwise it will continue to shed a negative light on the modified car scene in general.