My friend Dan and I put together a 1929 Model A Businessmans coupe(cloth roof that didn't go down and a rumbleseat) during the winter of 1963 in his dads old barn.
We would scrounge parts from where ever we could being high school seniors with not much money.
Our big plan was after graduation was to drive to California and trade the "A" in on a new Mustang.

We didn't have the correct ignition switch just a funky push button switch we got from a desk lamp. Big fun pushing the switch to kill the spark while moving and retard the spark then pushing it again to get a big back fire.
It always cracked us up watching the people.

In a small town in California we were cruising along and saw a lady coming out of a grocery store with a shopping bag of food and a glass jug of clorex bleach.

Dan said watch this and mashed the button and let out a good backfire-
the lady threw the bag in the air and dropped the brown glass jug of bleach which broke all over her feet.

We laughed so hard , thinking we had to be the funniest guys on the planet.

A couple minutes later we get pulled over by the CHP. Lights flashing and siren screaming.

Amazing how fast I went from laughing my azz off to being scared sh!tless.

Dan said to let him do the talking.
He had the story that these old cars back fire every once in a while.

The cop comes up and said nice '29 -you boys better follow me.
Ah man we felt like we were headed to jail for sure.
We drove through town and turned down a dirt road and stopped at a house with 8 or so Model A's in the yard.

The cop got out and said how would you boys like to have supper with him and his family. We ended up having supper with them and was offered a place to stay for the night(not jail).

He didn't say anything about the lady and as far as we knew didn't know about our little
stunt. We were shown his collection and talked Model A all night
Just a guy that loves the old Ford.

We didn't stop doing the backfire and still got a laugh everytime.