[DAVID GAGNARD]

I was talking to a trooper friend once and in my 65 fastback, he asked me to start it up, he wanted to hear it run, so I did. now it has a 350hp or less 351-W in it and I have 2 rather large mufflers from a mid 80's LTD on the car, so at idle to about 2500 rpms it it very quite, after 2500 rpms, it starts to make a little noise, not really loud, but you know I'm there...........

he told me at speed I could/would be written up for "modified exhaust", so I told him my car actually came with with louder mufflers from the factory (66 GT-350 clone).....he didn't know what to say. Then I asked if it was legal for the HD riders to ride around town running drag pipes and straight pipes with NO MUFFLERS???? he said no, I asked, "then why don't they ever get ticketed?", he said cause too many cops ride Harleys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to him, anything but the factory installed exhaust system on any factory vehicle is ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then I told him if I was ever ticketed for loud/modified exhaust, they had better get plenty of ticket books printed, cause I would make enough stink about this in the media that every HD rider would have to go out and buy factory exhaust systems and have them installed on their bikes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My race car with a 475hp 331 stroker running an X-pipe and NO mufflers is not as loud as some HD I've been around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David