Licensing and operating any vehicle, Hot Rods included, is a privilege, not a right.... When cars with open headers and bogus little baffles in there zoomise run up and down the highway, the general public notices them and many consider loud cars to be offensive.... With enough aggravation, they will bring pressure to bear on state and federal legislators to have our privileges revoked.....


The tree huggers and do gooders already hate us and will do everything they can to legislate us out of existence in order to save us from ourselves and get us all driving nice little respectable hybeds and electric cars.... Cops don't care!!! They only enforce the laws they are pressured to enforce!!! Why do some choose to continuall supply the anti-Hot Rod crowd with the ammo they need to shoot us down??????

Don't think it can happen???? Ask some of the snowmobilers and atv riders how many public areas have been restricted!!!! Ask them about the "noise police" with their little meters who inspect every vehicle BEFORE it hits the trails.... If you think it can never happen where you live, you're just kidding yourself!!!! Good friend of mine, fellow Hot Rodder, and all around gear head also happens to be about 4th man down in the Highway Patrol here....even in the boonies of South Dakota the pressure is being brought on lawmakers to do things to make our lives as Hot Rodders miserable..... Its just a matter of time until that attention is brought to bear on Hot Rods operating on a public highway..... When and if it happens, keep telling the cop about your "right" to operate a vehicle with loud and obnoxious pipes when he's either pulling your tags and registration or loading your car on the roll back to have it impounded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


PS--- Got my first Harley in 1966, sold my last one two years ago....none of them had open pipes and they all ran great!!!! Next time a couple loud bikes, loud Hot Rods, or loud anything go by, take time to LISTEN to what people say about them.....they consider the noise to be offensive...eventually either we quiet our rides down, or we lose the right to operate them on a public highway!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee people!!!!!!!!! We are the minority and a lot of people want to make our Hot Rods extinct!!!! If we don't police ourselves a bit, then others will do it for us!!!! Oh yeah, keep telling yourself it will never happen in __________ (insert name of your state)..... I hope it doesn't, but many of us can see the writing on the wall....the times are a changing!!!!!