Vogtlands
Vogtlands
Besides, take some Krylon (pick any color you want but Red is faster
) clean up your worked end, use generous primer to fill in imperfections and now they're 'aftermarket'. Do the same with gloss black and they'll look new and stock. (This trick is often used in 'stock class' auto-X, even recommended by Mike Kojima). The thing I love about these cars is how...old man they look. I thought Volvos were invisible to the cops. Just driving a Civic gives a cop all kinds of associative reasons to pull you over just to fuck around and see if he gets lucky, since hood rats, white trash, ricers and just plain speed freaks all love those cars. That's one of the reasons I want to eventually go with a 350 in a parts D. Paint it gloss white and keep the exhaust quiet (the one real bummer, since the best part about V8 power is that sound - I'll have to add some cutouts or something), and they (being the cops or that unsuspecting douche in the Mustang) won't know anything, and they wouldn't have any reason to expect to. These cars would take 5, 10 years to get recognized as a potential 'hot rod' by the public at large, even if their popularity amongst modders skyrocketed today.
Dudley do-rights can take the fact that cutting springs is illegal in some places into consideration (though it should be pointed out), the rest can take comfort in the fact that my cousin's been driving around in a carbed 5.0l Mustang with no cats, a cage and Drag-lites, cowl hood, the whole nine, registered as a four-cylinder (and insured as one!), driven daily for years. In 2013 he can register it as a classic and it won't need a smog check. And Mustang owners get pulled over all the time, for just-cuz. Anyone with a stockish 123 is never, ever, ever going to get the fine tooth comb treatment, and really won't matter if you do if you paint the springs to look like new stock ones.
CID Vicious
06-10-2009, 11:29 PM #24Eh, illegal shmillegal. I've driven over 11k miles on the US Interstate Highway System with, shall we say, less than a license, a fact I've grown to be rather proud of.
Besides, take some Krylon (pick any color you want but Red is faster ) clean up your worked end, use generous primer to fill in imperfections and now they're 'aftermarket'. Do the same with gloss black and they'll look new and stock. (This trick is often used in 'stock class' auto-X, even recommended by Mike Kojima).
The thing I love about these cars is how...old man they look. I thought Volvos were invisible to the cops. Just driving a Civic gives a cop all kinds of associative reasons to pull you over just to fuck around and see if he gets lucky, since hood rats, white trash, ricers and just plain speed freaks all love those cars. That's one of the reasons I want to eventually go with a 350 in a parts D. Paint it gloss white and keep the exhaust quiet (the one real bummer, since the best part about V8 power is that sound - I'll have to add some cutouts or something), and they (being the cops or that unsuspecting douche in the Mustang) won't know anything, and they wouldn't have any reason to expect to. These cars would take 5, 10 years to get recognized as a potential 'hot rod' by the public at large, even if their popularity amongst modders skyrocketed today.
Dudley do-rights can take the fact that cutting springs is illegal in some places into consideration (though it should be pointed out), the rest can take comfort in the fact that my cousin's been driving around in a carbed 5.0l Mustang with no cats, a cage and Drag-lites, cowl hood, the whole nine, registered as a four-cylinder (and insured as one!), driven daily for years. In 2013 he can register it as a classic and it won't need a smog check. And Mustang owners get pulled over all the time, for just-cuz. Anyone with a stockish 123 is never, ever, ever going to get the fine tooth comb treatment, and really won't matter if you do if you paint the springs to look like new stock ones.
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