When I lived in Kalifornia, I used my Bugeye as a daily driver. One night
coming home from work
(2nd shift) while driving on the Los Angeles freeway system I got pulled
over by a CHP officer.
I was only going 55 MPH (in a 55 zone) because I was low on gas (petrol).
The officer thought that I was
driving so slow because I had been drinking. When it became obvious that I
was not drunk ,
he accused me of having bald tires. They were new ! Then he wanted to see my
break lights ,
turn signals, windshield wipers and horn operate. In the end he had to let
me go. It's probably
worse now.
Mark Hanna
AN5 (In Colorado, I'm never going back ! )
> When I was 16, I had a 1959 A-H 100-6. Bought it for $275. Needless to
> say,
> it needed some work. I rebuilt the tranny and got it put back together.
> Decided to test drive it before putting all the rest of the stuff back on
> it. The front bumper was still off so it did not have a front license tag.
>
> Got stopped a cited by a county mountie! Went over to my girlfriend's
> house
> for the afternoon. On the way back, I got stopped by a state trooper. He
> made me sit in his car, never told me why he stopped me and proceeded to
> write a ticket. He handed me the pad, told me to sign the citation... I
> asked him what it was for. He said for not having a front license tag!
>
> I looked at him and said that he could not give me a ticket for not having
> a
> front tag. In his most sarcastic voice, he says "WHY NOT?" I pull the
> other
> ticket out of my shirt pocket, wave it in his face, and say "BECAUSE I
> ALREADY GOT ONE!!!"
>
> In Ohio they have to give you a chance to make the equipment repair before
> they can recite you for the same thing.
>
> Boy, was he cranked up. Ohio troopers DON'T void citations! He did a
> roadside safety inspection looking for something to bag me on. When he got
> to the turn signals (which didn't work) I used hand signals! LOL - he
> couldn't have been any madder then. Never found anything he could write me
> for.
>
> Kent
> 1960 Bugeye
>
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