LOUDER is not better! - Page 2

Pres712 · 02-08-2007, 08:52 AM

I had the kindof the same thing happen to me back when I owned my '69. I had ordered it with the factory side pipes but soon replaced them with '67 side pipes as the '69s were too quiet. I was heading home one night and after leaving a stop sign got pulled over. When I asked the cop the reason he told me I "roared by him" and must have been speeding. After some verbal sparring he admited he had no radar on me and other than the sound, he had nothing on me. He let me go with a warning. This was when I lived in a small town in Ohio. He did have a boy scout with him as a ride along and was probably trying to impress him.

SteveK · 02-08-2007, 09:15 AM

When I was 16 I had a 1970 Dodge Challenger that was in need of exhaust repair. But I liked the way it sounded. I was driving through Allegany, NY a small college town. Everyone hung out at the local sub shop. So as I passed I would pop it into neutral and give it a rev. About a mile down the road I got pulled over. I shut the car off. The officer asked me to start the car, I did. He asked if i Liked the sound, I said yes. He said give it a rev, I did. He said, sound nice doesn't it? I said yes. He then said shut it down and come with me. He put me in the back of the police car and proceeded to write me a ticket for modified exhaust.
Well, my Dad was a LEO at the time, so I went to him with the ticket. He said fight it. I said are you crazy. This is a ticket from Pez, he is the meanest LEO I know. He told me to take pictures of the holes in the stock exhaust and present them to the judge. My case was dismissed. I had an inadequate exhaust not a modified exhaust. Needless to say, I didn't drive in Allegany again for a LONG time.

Z06 Rocket · 02-09-2007, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveK

He said fight it. I said are you crazy. This is a ticket from Pez, he is the meanest LEO I know.

No way,,, not PEZ!

That Pez makes Bad Bad Leroy Brown the baddest man in the whole damn town look like a boy scout!

Just kidding,,, Isn't Pez the exchange student from "That 70's Show"?

Grins

ynkedad · 02-09-2007, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Z06 Rocket

Bad Bad Leroy Brown the baddest man in the whole damn
town.

I haven't hear or thought of that song for YEARS!!!

ynkedad · 02-09-2007, 09:29 AM

been said (argued) before, but Harley's have LOUD pipes all of the time. Why is it a cars and trucks seem to be discriminated against? I know that cars/trucks usually aren't Loud until they get on it but....that didn't seem to be the case with Steve's experience

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I know, There really is no answer, I just had to Vent!

~Ray

**Rich Z** · 02-09-2007, 02:14 PM

Well the cop that pulled me over didn't say a word about the loudness. Just that he HEARD me and didn't SEE me.

naples · 02-15-2007, 10:06 PM

I am not complaining because I have always deserved it, but I have never been pulled over and not got a citation or two.

**Rich Z** · 02-15-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by naples

I am not complaining because I have always deserved it, but I have never been pulled over and not got a citation or two.

Before I got mine, a friend of mine who has had several Corvettes over the years told me "Corvette owners do NOT get warnings! They get TICKETS."

It was just my lucky day, I guess.