Thread: Zoomies on the road Florida?

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Yup, it'll be great!!!!! The uniformed will see it as just another Hot Rod with loud exhaust, and everybody with a Hot Rod will be looked down on as "One of them noisy dang Hot Rods"....

Heck, I don't care what you do, you're in Florida.......... But I've already lived through the era when the general public hated hot rods, and the cops were forced to make life miserable for all of us because of the actions of a few...... I don't want to go back to it.....it wasn't fun!!!

and, what about the next generation of Hot Rodders who will be forced to comply with the laws the unknowing public insists on to attempt to ban Hot Rods as we know them????????

A bit of consideration for those who don't like loud cars can save us all a lot of grief later........

No Dave, it's a different climate now. Some of my friends are cops who own hot rods. I've even attended car shows that were sponsored by the police for various fund raisers. If you go to any event like Daytona 50% of the cars there are on the edge of being "legal", but the cops realize we have a ton of money tied up in our rods and they are probably safer than a lot of the daily drivers on the road.

Just last Saturday night I had nothing going on so I cruised down to Naples for a little cruise in they hold there, and I probably passed and was passed by 10 cops who didn't blink twice. I've even had them pull up along side and give me compliments or ask where the show is. Florida is very cool on this stuff, they have bigger fish to fry with crime and serious traffic violations so they rarely bother us. I drove my 27 almost daily for 7 years and was never stopped once.

We are far removed from the hooligans in the B movies, and the police realize it. Oh, and you should hear some of the Harleys running around down here!

Don