always a painful sight...

[joflaig]

Heading north of Milwaukee on Interstate 43 this evening and had to do a double take when I saw a beautiful 1970 Charger R/T at the side of the road pulled over by a black and white. It was orange with black stripes, looked really nice. You wish you could pull over and explain to the officer that he just doesn't understand... oh well.

Curious, anyone ever had luck weaseling out of a speeding ticket just because you happen to be behind the wheel of such a special car?

[bull]

The cop probably just wanted to get a good look at the car. You're allowed to go 15 over when you're in a muscle car these days.

[70charger_boy]

I was caught by a cop for doing a serious burnout in my T/A.  The cop pulled me over. After, running my license he said"I'll let you go, because I like your car.  but, if I catch you again I'm gonna tow it"

[Rolling_Thunder]

The cop probably just wanted to get a good look at the car. You're allowed to go 15 over when you're in a muscle car these days.

not out here in CA...     the let you off with warnings for 117mph on the freeway if you're driving a wing-car....     

[bull]

The cop probably just wanted to get a good look at the car. You're allowed to go 15 over when you're in a muscle car these days.

not out here in CA...     the let you off with warnings for 117mph on the freeway if you're driving a wing-car....     

I should have said you're allowed to go at least 15 over when you're in a muscle car. It's almost a requirement that you do a miminum of 70.

[deputycrawford]

     My 69 doesn't like to go 70. Hell, It barely likes 60. I have a 4.10 gear and 28 in tall drag radials. I don't take it on the highway much. Besides, those stinking cops wouldn't touch me. They wouldn't dare try me...    Truthfully, many of the officers and troopers around here own muscle cars. One female trooper has been asking me how to start running her Corvette at Milan Dragway on test and tune night. I told her I would even try out her car for her. "My plan is working perfectly."......

[dpm68]

You wish you could pull over and explain to the officer that he just doesn't understand... oh well.

Boy howdy, you do that up in Wyoming - one state to the north of me, and you are gonna have a gun drawn on yer ass real fast. Heck, most states I've been in for that matter. I got pulled over in my '64 500 one time and the female cop asked as she was filling out the ticket form: "What is that a 70 or a 71?,  and I laughed as I corrected her...I ended up in the klink. So it goes.

[BMOTOXSTAR]

There is a real big classic , muscle car scene here in NE Ohio. There is a car cruise every night of the week. The cops give the thumbs up  when you pass them going fast.
Really, they do not give muscle cars a hard time around here. Now ricers, that is a different story.

[deputycrawford]

     I asked a ricer if he was practicing. He looked at me and asked what I meant. I asked him if he was practicing for when he got a real car.

[SeattleCharger]

Years ago driving '74 Firebird late at night on freeway in desolate area, swear I had the whole interstate to myself, going ninety, speed limit was 55, you know, checking my rearview mirror for headlights, none behind me as far as I could see, a second later I hear a siren short burst and look to my right and a friggin state patrol mustang is right next to me, then he guns it and pulls away fast, scared the crap out of me, figured he was having some fun, somehow snuck up on me with lights off,  I was worried he was going to a scene a ways ahead and was just gonna stop me there as cars had to go through slow, so I took next exit and waited in a tavern with a couple beers til I chilled out some and hoped wherever he was he would be gone.   Never saw him again.  Leaving the tavern to freeway had to go real bad, pulled over on boonies road to whiz, and another stater pulls up behind me, I told him my oil light came on and I was checking the oil, I was so paranoid, for other reasons to,  , cause I was figuring the mustang guy had got on radio that I ditched the freeway, but that second cop just said ok, and drove off,  needless to say I was happy to finally get back to Olympia, jeez.

[Mike DC]

 
I used to drive my GL replica all the time as a teenager (mid-1990s) and I got treated like absolute dogsh*t for years.


The subdivision I lived in at the time was 20 mph limit, and I would literally get stopped/searched/hassled if I was coasting at 25mph.  It was that bad.  By the time I was a junior in high school I had already lost count of how many bullsh*t stops I'd had. 

After a certain point I stopped keeping the backseat-bottom hooked over the floor hooks anymore.  The cops wanted to lift it up all the time whenever they were searching the car. 

 

[2Gunz]

Ive told this before on this forum........

I was coming home late like 2am from work and was dead tired.

I was doing 120 ish and got lit up by the cops.

At this point I didnt care at all what was going to happen, I just wanted sleep.

So I pull over and the cop is pissed I could tell from his walk, god knows how long it took him to catch up.

He gets to my window and says "you have any idea how fast you where going"

I looked at him and deadpanned "I dunno SIR, but I was going pretty F@#king fast!"

So.... he kinda looked shocked for a second, he prolly figured he was going to get the normal "I dunno, was I speeding?" crap.

Then he gets a big grin on his face and kinda chuckles and says "license and registration".

He take my stuff and goes back to the car for like forever.

He finally comes back and tells me "your records clean, Im going to let you go, but you REALLY need to slow down"

"you drive a florescent green car" then chuckles again.

I thank him like 9 million times.

He walks like 5 steps away and looks back and says "BTW Nice car"

[70charger_boy]

Years ago driving '74 Firebird late at night on freeway in desolate area, swear I had the whole interstate to myself, going ninety, speed limit was 55, you know, checking my rearview mirror for headlights, none behind me as far as I could see, a second later I hear a siren short burst and look to my right and a friggin state patrol mustang is right next to me, then he guns it and pulls away fast, scared the crap out of me, figured he was having some fun, somehow snuck up on me with lights off,  I was worried he was going to a scene a ways ahead and was just gonna stop me there as cars had to go through slow, so I took next exit and waited in a tavern with a couple beers til I chilled out some and hoped wherever he was he would be gone.   Never saw him again.  Leaving the tavern to freeway had to go real bad, pulled over on boonies road to whiz, and another stater pulls up behind me, I told him my oil light came on and I was checking the oil, I was so paranoid, for other reasons to,  , cause I was figuring the mustang guy had got on radio that I ditched the freeway, but that second cop just said ok, and drove off,  needless to say I was happy to finally get back to Olympia, jeez.

  Been there done that.  Except, I was high on weed

[greatwn73]

Last night a friend of of mine and I took our wives out for dinner and Blues and we took our cars. Its about 50 miles down a four lane and we decided that since both our cars tend to attract attention that we would take it easy.His car is a screaming yellow corvette and my copper metalic charger are both on the loud side. Anyhow we were cruising along at about 70-75 and a Honda comes along the vette slows down has a look and the comes up to the Charger and has a look. The Honda speeds ahead in a show of power?? I watched as the Radar cop comes running out from his hiding spot and nails the Honda. We cruised by and the cop looks,smiles and waves as he's showing the Honda driver the radar readout on his hand held. Of course we when got to the restuarant on the side of the highway we parked and waited for the Honda to go by. It made our evening.

Ps Best we can tell the vette will marginally out accelerate me but I hold my own at the top end.

[TruckDriver]

 

Man, these are some funny stories!

[Argos_Chargers]

Back in the early 90's I used to have to take a clover leaf on ramp to get on the freeway to get to school.  One week I got stuck behind tracto trailers Monday through Thursday.  I HATE merging onto the freeway at 20 miles per hour!  On Friday I got stuck behind a dump truck.  At t he bottom of the ramp I saw I could jump into the fast lane.  I went racing by the dump truck and moved into the right lane to pass a small car.  By now I'm doing about 80.  After an appropriate time check my mirror to get back into the fast lane, but I don't see the small car, so I speed up.  By now I'm over 90 and catching up on another dump truck in the slow lane.  I look in my mirror again and don't se the small car.  I knew it was still beside me, so as I jam on the brakes and I flip the guy off.  I look over and am staring a State Patrol in the face ...he was driving an unmarked Mustang.  I had visions of my license sailing away.  The cop gets it back down to 55 and I couldn't slow down quick enough to not hit th edump truck so I move into the fast lane behind him.  He never pulled over or pulled me over.  You can bet I didn't pass him!  All I can figure was that he got such a kick out of th expression on my face when I looked at him tha the figured I'd suffered enough.  Talk about sweating bullets!!!!

[deputycrawford]

Argos, That is an un smooth moment. That is a funny story. I would have done the same thing. Not pull you over that is. I have done that to kids racing their ricers. I was in my personal car and pulled up next to them at a light after they tried to get around me and couldn't. They flipped me off, started to yell out the window, noticed the uniform, and almost threw up. I never laughed so hard. I have many un smooth moments in my life. I definitely allow others to have theirs....I'm still laughing.

[68charger383]

This thread is like the joke, cop pulls over this kid and walks up to the window and says "I've been wating for you all day" the kid responds "I got here as fast as I could" the cop laughs and lets him go. 

[70charger_boy]

This thread is like the joke, cop pulls over this kid and walks up to the window and says "I've been wating for you all day" the kid responds "I got here as fast as I could" the cop laughs and lets him go. 

Was that on an episode of chips???

[SeattleCharger]

An older gentleman is hauling ass in his new vette through the Nevada dessert.   He sees a Nevada state trooper in his rearview mirror in pursuit.  He pulls him over doing over 100mph.   

  "Sir, you know how fast you were going?"          "Ya, I know, sorry about that."

      "Well, I'll tell you what.  I'm at the end of my shift and I want to go home, so if you can tell me a good excuse I haven't heard before, I'll let you go."

   "Ok.  Actually . . , a couple years ago my wife left me for a Nevada state trooper, and I though you were trying to give her back."
    The cop let him go.

[dodgecharger-fan]

Back in the early 90's I used to have to take a clover leaf on ramp to get on the freeway to get to school.  One week I got stuck behind tracto trailers Monday through Thursday.  I HATE merging onto the freeway at 20 miles per hour!

Me too. That's why I coast on the ramp as slow as I can and let the trucks opwn up a huge gap in front of me. Then, just as they start to merge into the next lane, I floor it and get up to highway speed and pass them safely. The trick is to watch the traffic flow as you're coasting on the ramp and try and spot a decent opening.
You'll get some weird looksa from the people behind you, but as soon as they see you merge into traffic easily and safely, the light bulb goes on over their head.

[DukesofHoward]

Colorado Springs. 1981. A friend and I stopped at the package store and picked up a six-pack, climbed into my '69 Charger, opened a couple had a couple of swigs. I  pulled out and made my way to the intersection. If memory serves, it was Arvada Blvd, a 4 -lane and I wanted to go left. I looked left, then right (then left again). Nothing coming or in sight so I laid into the throttle. Beautifully sideways with BF Goodrich 50s smoking, no sooner than I got straightened out there were flashing lights in the rearview and they were coming fast. Naturally I thought, "shit, I'm going to jail".

Anyhow, I pull over and we're trying to hide the beers etc. The cop stops about 5 car lengths behind me and slowly makes his way to the car. I give him license, registration and he goes back to his car. After making me sweat for about ten minutes, he gets out of his car and tells me to get out and come back to where he's at. The six pack we'd picked up was a refill so I figure he's going to give me a field sobriety test and I'm still going to jail. He looks at me, looks at my license, looks at the car and says "That's a nice car. Don't tear it up."

[70charger_boy]

After hearing Howards story it reminded me of a really funny story.

Me and a few friends were going out to a nightclub.  We were drinking in the car.  Cruising on the highway and we passed by a rhode island state trooper.  He pulled up behind us and lit up his lights.  My friends passed the beers in the back seat and told me to hide them.  We pull over and the cops have guns drawn right at me.  They were yelling show me your hands.
So, we were shaking and scared.  He asked me what I was doing and I said I was trying to hide the beers.  My friends wanted to kill me for admitting that to the cops.  The cops told me to grab the beers and step out of the car.

He told me to pour out the beer on the side of the road.  I gladly did.  He then turned to the driver and said you have 2 choices.  I can arrest you or ill let you off if you drop and give me 50 pushups.

He said he was only kidding about he pushups and let us go.

The funny part was in the end he asked us where we were going.  We told him we were going out to a nightclub in Providence.
He said to us in a staright face

    "If you guys plan on getting laid park this car as far away from the club, because no girl alive will have sex with a guy that drives a purple escort"

[RECHRGD]

1968, La Canada, California.  I had my new R/T for about 4 months and my older brother's best friend (a GTO guy) had just joined the California Highway Patrol.  He loved to pull me over whenever he saw me and would check out any mods that I had done to the engine, headers, etc..  One day I'm with a long time friend and he (the CHP) pulls up next to me in his dodge cruiser (w/ 440) going down Angeles Crest Hwy..  I didn't let my friend know that I knew the CHP.  Anyway, Bill (the CHP) punches his cruiser and, in turn, I nail the Charger.  We stayed on it until it was obvious that the Charger was easily pulling away (about 70/80mph).  I slammed on the brakes and took the first right turn sideways while Bill just kept cruising down the road.  I ran into that old friend years ago, and he was still amazed at what happened that day.  It really stuck in his mind because he had no idea that I knew the cop.  I remember him screaming at me at the time that he didn't want to go to jail.  Good memories.   Bob

[mally69]

well i had a doosey...   spring of 2006  i just got my car finished and at the one end of town there is a long steep hilll ( 3 lane )  ijust had to take the charger up over there well the speed limit is 45   so i gun it to go up over the hill and just happen to glance to my left in a used car lot and there set smokey the bear   mean while im going 115  when i passed him   thought well hell never get me now so i just kept the old girl hammered and turned off asap.... well  the very next weekend im putting around town and behind me there is a cop coming fast  he followed me around then turned on the lights i pulled over   and he said  do you mind if i check out your car   i said nope go ahead,  we talked a while and then he said  that he seen me going up over the hill last weekend   and i apologized and he said "no need to  becuase it brought a smile to my face  just seeing an old muscle car back in action"     he is a muscle car nut   and i guess that saved my A$$