Ever been pulled over driving your Cobra?

STEVE COURTWRIG · #1 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 12:28 PM

I was standing in my garage, sucking a brew,my car parked in the street, down the driveway in front of me. Along came 2 motorcycle cops, they went by, turned around, went back by, staring hard at the car, turned around again, flipped on the lites and sirens, stopping in front and behind the Cobra. I'm thinking "what the hell is this?" when they get off the bikes and start asking all the usual cobra questions. After about 20 minutes, they thanked me, paid compliments and rode off. The wife thought it was really funny......

STL Mark · #2 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 01:35 PM

There's a county cop that is the coach of my nephew's baseball team. Every now and then I take the Cobra to a game. He's always there with his badge - and says "you gotta take me out in that - I know all of the great roads - and you won't get a ticket!" At some point this summer - I'll take him up on that for sure!

OZCOBRA · #3 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 02:42 PM

A few years back at our Aussie Nationals held in West Wyalong I took what became known as Satans Toy for a spin before the days events commenced....780KG... 550+Hp..running VP104 race fuel...street slicks..2 matt glass body..8" perspex screen ...painted Matt blk with 20 spray cans the nite before,so I had taken the car for a spin through town only to be pulled up by the local copper, his questions were as follows;

1. "so this is Satans toy, hey??

"
YES OFFICER
2."Do you know what speed you were doing?"
NO!!I

DON'T HAVE A SPEEDO

3."The car is registered ??????"
AHHH YEAHHHSSSSS"

....."BUT NOT TO ME"
4." Let's see what we have here-
NO mirrors of any kind,no speedo, a bit to low for my liking,i can see the road ,engine and diff from within the cockpit, AND THAT FUEL WHAT IS IT

:!!!!!AND A TAD LOUD I COULD HEAR YOU FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN

!! Now we give you guys a good run up here you be a good boy and be on your way just keep an eye on your tacho to gauge your speed.

Ozcobra

vegasmike · #4 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 03:05 PM

Does getting pulled over by US Customs count?

I have just been informed that the container that my roller is in has been selected for "additional testing" by US Customs in LA.

They will not give any ETA on when they might clear it. They have just said that two of the three tests have been completed and they are currently in process on the third.

Normally, I wouldn't worry about it, but I have somebody in LA waiting to bring the roller back to Boise and on a really tight schedule.

Frustrating beyond belief.

OZCOBRA · #5 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 03:09 PM

I wouldn't be to concerned unless your roller was coming from COLUMBIA!!!!

PatBuckley · #6 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 04:04 PM

Back in 1999 I drove my ERA to Reno and got pulled over three times on the one trip. In each case it was simply so they could look at the car. It started getting a little old.

This year I drove the GT40 up to the Bash and was being very careful to not speed.....when I came upon a pickup truck in the right lane I followed him for a while and then decided to pass him so I just eased on around him....sure enough there was a CHP sitting there.

She pulled me over and said I was going 81 in a 65...I asked her if I could get a break and she said yes - she would drop the speed down. I was hoping for a warning.

She then asked for insurance and registration - which I gave her but my insurance card was not the new one so it was out of date.

After she wrote the ticket she called me back to her car to sign the ticket and told me she was giving me a fixit ticket for failure to show proof of insurance.

I wasn't real pleased but continued to smile, assuming I was getting two tickets now, when I asked if I was eligible for traffic school she looked kind of puzzled and said that she didn't see the need as I was only getting a fixit ticket not a speeding ticket!

Cool!!!

HI Cobra · #7 (**permalink**) 06-12-2008, 04:22 PM

Good story Pat,
The one time I got stopped in my Cobra I was at the rear of of a group of
cars on H-2 headed towards Schofield Barracks and was going 65 (in a 55)
at the most, when one of Hawaii's finest chased me down and pulled me
over. When I asked him why he stopped me he showed me his radar gun
which had 81 in it and said it was because I had a shiny car. Dick. All I can
figure is he had clocked someone earlier and never did a reset on the gun
and put the screws to me - no way was I going anywhere near that speed -
or he would have said something about loud pipes too.