Quote Originally Posted by pro70z28 View Post
I think I may have told this before but it fits the MO of this thread.
When I was building my panel truck, once I got it running I thought I'd run it across town (pop 500) to the elevator to see what it weighed. I don't remember what the scales said but I do remember getting pulled over by the town cop about 2 blocks from making it back to the shop. He never did give me a ticket, but he did take up about 45 minutes of my time explaining why I shouldn't be driving this thing with NO plates, NO working brake lights, or Turn signals, NO sheet metal from the firewall forward, OPEN headers and Stack Hilborn injection off a sprint car. To compound the problem I had to ask him if he would let me drive the last 2 blocks to the shop before I shut it off because I know it won't fire back up hot. I had to yell this request a couple times because I couldn't get my voice to carry very well over the open headers. This was the early 70's....before they took this stuff so serious.
i did very much that same thing in my 429 pinto .. cept i didn`t get off free .. i would have made it had a bud not stopped me and have me do a burn out