Is This Legal!? Options

[Spitrod]

Okay. It's late. 2:30 am..

I just went to the gas station for a pack of smokes. When I was getting
out of my car, I hear what sounded like an import pulling into the parking
lot.

I look and see this local hillbilly dude in his Ford Contour. He threw on some
performance, honda-esque muffler, took the hubcaps off his wheels, sprayed
them black, and put some racing stickers in his rear windows.

I'm anything but a "car bully"...but are these people for real? I would feel
like the biggest ass driving around in a fraudulent "street racer"...

The only thing he was missing was the cardboard body kit.

I seriously laughed out loud in the parking lot. It's insulting to those of us
who spend every day under our hoods and in our cars.

[Spitrod]

I think D-Man and I need a 7-11 to hang out in front of.

I understand the rodded geo and all that...my thing is that I saw
this car the day before and it was completely "stock"..
Meaning - he tossed the muffler and the racing stickers on over
night. I doubt he had time to turbo it or do any real mods for that
matter.

Personally, I just couldn't drive around with such pretentiousness.
Again, I think it's insulting to the people who actually work on
their cars regularly. We could have bought a bunch of stickers
and called it a day too.

As far as the budget issue goes - I have an eight month old boy
and my celi is my DD. I'm on a serious budget...so if my car was
stock, there's no way I'd stick a huge "K&N" sticker on my back
window. I'd save my quarters.

The money spent on wheel paint, hotrod stickers and a cheap
exhaust could have covered an intake. That's a start, right?

This post has been edited by Spitrod: Sep 19, 2008 - 12:16 PM