California Crackdown on Modified Cars Options

[LadyHavoc]

I apologize if this has already been posted, but ah...just in case if you haven't heard already...

"$5 million in federal money will fund a Sacramento, California effort to stop drivers in modified cars."

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/05/576.asp

This post has been edited by LadyHavoc: Aug 8, 2005 - 12:09 PM

[Valo666]

they did somethin like that here in toronto and the greater toronto area called pacer programe. To get the point across that modifying ur car is "bad" and "wrong". The police decided to soup up/rice out a 2001 civic SIR. It even had a greddy turbo kit. They said it was to chase down the faster cars at drag races. thing is though, there has been nights where the cops drivin it have taken part. I dunno, i think police cracking down on modifying imports is stupid. They admire modified classics/muscel cars, they fear bikers, yet are most intimidated by imports. Theres a guy who goes to the car show at my work on weekends who drives a 1600hp supercharged plymouth GTX with a 300shot of nitrous. Its street legal, but i mean its 1600hp, this guy runs 1/4 mile in like 8 seconds on pump gas. Ive seen this guy show up at drag races north of where i live. The police will not stop this guy even if they see him racing. Why? because they respect the fact he restored the car and did what he did to it. The guys runnin straight exhaust with 2 3 1/2inch glass pack straight mufflers. hez easily 3 times as loud as any import i know. cops wont pull him over. Yet if a civic with a loud exhaust drives by right after him, they will get the civic. It pisses me off that just because u drive an import u get profiled, yet there r bikers who are twice as loud as my celi at 5000rpm, and they actually cause dmg n stuff. I dunno, its anoying that ppl drivin and import with an exhaust system will get pulled over, but a guy drivin a muscel car twice as loud, and duin twice the speed we are.