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Post by basjoos on Aug 14, 2008 18:29:17 GMT -5
One thing about driving an unusual looking car is that its a cop magnet. Today is the 7th time that a cop pulled me over mainly to satisfy his curiousity. The excuse this time was to check if my license plates were correct since they were an old (16 year old) SC license plate design mounted on what looked to the cop to be a new futuristic looking car. I recently painted my car and it cleaned up very nicely. All of those people who were carping about my car being "rough as a shipping pallet" and "ugly as sin" will have to take their words back. The paint smoothed out all of the seams and rivets and it now looks like a jet aircraft fuselage on wheels. From a distance and at night you can't even see the wheels, so it looks like it is hovering just above the ground "a la Star Wars". Anyway after he brought back the license/registration/insurance info, he popped the question, "What kind of car is this?" and I explained that it started out as a Honda Civic that I modified to improve the mileage and told him what mileage I was getting, etc, etc. He was very interested in my answers. Its gotten so routine to see a blue light in my rear view that it doesn't cause any anxiety any more when it happens. I just pull over and explain to the curious man in blue the peculiars of my car. I guess I come across to them as an eccentric engineer.
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Post by Red Two on Sept 6, 2008 23:46:52 GMT -5
It does suck about the cops. But once all the locals know about you, you should receive less hassle -and possibly some benefit!
Cant' wait to see the pix! This cool design is only going to get cooler with weathering!
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Post by basjoos on Dec 10, 2008 20:35:56 GMT -5
I had a hit and run Speedracer wannabe doing over 100mph rear end me early one Sunday morning as I was doing 60mpg on the interstate. The resulting collision spun me around 540 degrees and took out about 2.5 feet of the 3 feet of added crush space in my boattail, but the damage never reached my car's original bumpers still in place under the boattail. The extended front nose also got dented when it nicked a guard rail as I was spinning my way down the road. If the aero mods hadn't added the additional crush space on both ends of my car, it probably would have been totalled by the impact. It cost $150 for me to rebuild the damaged portions of my car, I'm sure the idiot that hit me had a much higher repair bill to repair his ride. In the rebuild, I added a bunch of LED tail lights, making for a real bright red light show behind my car so hopefully the next speed demon will be quicker at getting his **s over the passing lane when overtaking me (where he should have been all along if he wanted to travel at that speed).
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Post by Red Two on Jan 11, 2009 23:46:08 GMT -5
Glad you're ok! Did you get many pix? I hope!
...And welcome to the impact crew. There's a good a good percentage of carfighters that get whacked. I don't think too many have had such hi-speed asteroid collisions as you experienced though.
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Post by basjoos on Feb 8, 2009 20:16:07 GMT -5
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