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Has anybody got a ticket with their Replica?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 2:47 pm
by CJaguar442
Has anybody got a ticket with their Replica for any reason?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:35 pm
by Starship
I actually had the opposite happen to me! Now, I don't have a true replica -- I have a 2002 Ford Escort ZX2 with many Knight Rider style cues inside and out (wrap around dash, overhead consoles, nav screen, center console with a functioning 5.25" floppy drive, front mounted scanner, etc.). But one night, a cop pulled me over for doing 50 in a 40. But then he saw my car and the interior and started asking questions about it. I gave him "the tour" of the main functions of all the buttons. After that, he decided not to give me a ticket!
Check out the car at
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/390119 if you haven't already seen it.
Of course, certain things on a replica could get you a ticket, like using the scanner in the front of the car while driving.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:37 pm
by snafu
It baffles me how people can drive around with severe alignment problems, no brakelights, and crap flying out of the bed of their trucks, and yet someone gets a ticket for having a row of red lights on the front of the car.
EDIT: "breaklights" are some bizarre takeoff on "brakelights". Fun.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:02 pm
by AusKnight2K
That's exactly the same over here ... It's nice to know that strange enforcement logic is not limited just to Australia ...
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:57 am
by snafu
Nice to know it's not just the USA! Ha!
Seriously, I don't know how some of these people get their cars to move.
The alignment problem was a Taurus or something where the left rear wheel was tilted about 20 degrees from a collision. I gave him a wide berth in case it came flying off.
Anyway, back on topic. I still don't understand how the scanner is illegal. Are they afraid someone's going to shoot cosmic death rays with it?
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:01 am
by Starship
It's just that, in someone's rear view mirror, a scanner can look like an emergency vehicle. That's one reason it's illegal. And another might be because it could be distracting to other drivers.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:23 pm
by cloudkitt
Maybe, but so is a a wheel tilted 20 degrees, lol
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:22 am
by OKC KNIGHT
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:40 pm
by snafu
The only "distraction" factor I could see is a KR fan running off the road because they were busy looking at the replica.
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:24 am
by FuzzieDice
Oh for sure!
Dryden doesn't like it when I look at other cars as I get distracted. He'd blow a spark plug out his back window if we saw a KITT on the road, I think!
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:04 pm
by T.A.H.O.E.
WELL, FLASH BACK TO FALL,1995...
I had a 83 Camaro Berlinetta -no spoiler on back,no t-tops but a rebuilt engine,trans,brakes,etc...charcoal grey int/exterior...so I got a scanner light ,installed in the nose-lower part...very bright halogen headlights.
riding thru rural NH. a (female )cop tagged me at 70...(oopsie!) but as it turns out, she was a fan of KR.......You can guess the rest...NO TICKET THO!
sadly,Spring of 96...while in Conn,an idiot who had not gotten new tires lost control of his p-up truck & plowed nose to nose into my ride....
crushing it all the way to the block....I had just stopped at a coffe shop to get a coffee not 1 minute prior...."KARR" scanner light,voice module & all were wrecked....
I did salvage the control,sound byte-voice box tho & it now resides in my current ride...( ironic = a tahoe Sport,3 door )...& no tickets !
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:52 am
by imranbecks
Dude... Is that your replica???? Wow that looks really good...
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:02 pm
by OKC KNIGHT
imranbecks wrote:
Dave
Dude... Is that your replica???? Wow that looks really good...[/quote]
Yes it is,My pride and joy
.I still have interior work and a complete brake overhual left to do.And I have a COMPLETE 2 TV dash on hold for me.
Dave
.Its my replica I do what I want and and gets VERY hot here in Oklahoma,So tint is still on. LOL
