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Originally Posted by tcrist
Jamo, You knowing the law and all maybe you can answer this.
In the first post of this thread it was mentioned that they wrote tickets for modified exhaust and I think engines modified for racing. It was brought up later about hoping that they dont check our cars (Cobras). What is the leagal standing on modified exhaust and racing components on Cobras. Can they only ticket you for those things if your car was built by a manufacture such as Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Honda, ECT.? How can they say what is STOCK on Cobras since they are not built by a manufacture? They are hand crafted.
Terry
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And therein lies the rub...
Much much easier when dealing with modern day ricers and their domestic replicas, with big coffee cans, nitrus systems, etc. Cops aren't going to go out of their way to bug classics or obvious collector cars just driving down the street. In our own San Joaquin Valley, the only time I have ever been stopped in the Cobra was just south of Madera coming home on the 99...the Madera County deputy was building an FFR and wanted a close up look at the car.
The tickets they wrote in Riverside were most certainly to make a point...hassle the general population with your high pitched sewing machines and assinine behavoir and risk getting hassled; ACLU be damned.
Fix-it tickets can be a b!tch to deal with...not something they can make go away by paying a fine.
Call it bias, selective enforcement or reasoned discretion...it works. Our year-long hassling of gangs here in Fresno has been paying off for our community. The gangbangers are now moving to other towns. Same thing when they bug sex offenders in neighborhoods, or make opening porn shops tougher with zoning laws to protect property values.
Any good defense attorney could probably mess with the cops after the fact, but at some point the hassling wins out. Fair? Probably not. So?