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.

[RickJamesBish]

I think there's a limit to "personal taste" and just something terrible...there's plenty of examples of that, like the Contour in the first post, or that crappy bondo-bodied Civic pic that was going around.

Personally though, I think proper paint makes a big difference. There's a giant gap between trying to make something rusty look nice, than putting something nice on an already nice vehicle.