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Subject: Let me ask you this... Author: Time for the semi-annual lecture again already [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 23:18:25 12/01/02 Sun In reply to: Dan 's message, "85 Gran Fury" on 16:44:48 12/01/02 Sun If you used to get pulled over all the time for driving around in an ex-police Buick that apparently was still marked (since you said you wouldn't mark the Plymouth), then why are you so eager to put an emergency light on it and start that trouble up again? If you want to be a part of the hobby, then jump in with the rest of us instead of only wanting to dip your big toe in the water and think you're swimming. If you are not a sworn police officer, there is no reason for you to be driving a car with an emergency light on top of it. If you are a cop, why would you want to drive around on your off-time in a car with a light on it? If you're a hobbyist restoring a copcar, what is the purpose of mounting a light on an unmarked car? It certainly won't score you any authenticity points at a car show. There are several states that have laws about emergency lights on vehicles. Mere possession of the light (whether it works or not) on or in the vehicle can cause the driver to be arrested for false personation and get the car impounded. Whenever that happens (and it happens more often than not), the driver then claims to be part of some club for copcar owners. That comment subsequently taints the local law enforcement's opinion of the legit vintage copcar hobbyists and usually this entire incident occurs a few weeks before some national copcar meet or show and casts a giant dark cloud over the event and police departments back out of participating in because of the bad press. Not only that, but the car owner gets blackballed and labeled as a wannabe. You want to have the car show worthy? Mark it up like it used to look in service with its original graphics or the PD markings of your choice or, leave the car unmarked all the way and show it as a daily driver. Mounting a light on the roof with nothing else isn't going to do the rest of us in the hobby any good and will make you look like a wannabe. You don't want that. WE don't want that. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Get over yourself Dan 09:13:34 12/02/02 Mon Oh great, another "fireman" who patrols around town in a car with a giant roof light. -- Uh huh, 11:03:03 12/02/02 Mon Author:Uh huh -- The Marshal., 15:52:15 12/02/02 Mon List -- DA, 22:36:24 12/02/02 Mon