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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / November 2007Mythbusters Test Plate Blockers
On the Disco channel right now: They tested 5 different schemes for obfuscating your license plate from speed trap/red light cameras. Everything from plate covers to plastic wrap to aerosol sprays FAILED MISERABLY. Consider the Plate Blocker myth BUSTED! > On the Disco channel right now: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Consider the Plate Blocker myth BUSTED! Saw it in an earlier show (they use reruns a lot). Certainly busted. > > On the Disco channel right now: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Saw it in an earlier show (they use reruns a lot). Certainly busted. The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! (Damn, I wish I knew how to spell.) >The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! > >(Damn, I wish I knew how to spell.) Does that mean you drive fast without wearing a radar detector and pull off the road when you see a cop coming?  Signature"I no longer find MTR and RAD a useful medium" Carl Rogers, 9 September 2007 Message-ID: <t01Fi.49620$Um6.14486@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net> > >The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Carl Rogers, 9 September 2007 > Message-ID: <t01Fi.49620$Um6.14486@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net> I haven't had a detector for years. I drive at a safe speed, usually somewhat above the posted, and try to follow several hundred yards behind someone doing the same. If someone passes me, I'll wait a bit and follow him/hersome dostance back, still usig the rearview mirror when safe to do so. Got caught by a plane only once. Somehow I didn't notice the fiftith anniversary, last year, of getting my first licence. > > >The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Somehow I didn't notice the fiftith anniversary, last year, of getting > my first licence. Forgot to mention: The last ticket I got was in the 1980s. (I'll probably get one tomorrow!) >> > >The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> I haven't had a detector for years. I think you missed my "rhythm method" joke. :) >Forgot to mention: The last ticket I got was in the 1980s. Same here - I thnk it was 1981 or 1982. I was a teenager driving a 1973 Chevy Vega, my very first car which I purchased myself for $400. I was at a stoplight next to an old Dodge Dart; when the light changed, we both floored it; the Dart left me in the dust, of course. When the cop pulled me over, he accused me of drag racing. I looked him right in the eye and said "officer, this is a 4-cylinder Chevy Vega. It burns 1 quart of oil for every tank of gas. There is NO WAY I would win a drag race in this car - why would I even try?" He laughed and gave me a ticket for ~40 in a 30. Signature"I no longer find MTR and RAD a useful medium" Carl Rogers, 9 September 2007 Message-ID: <t01Fi.49620$Um6.14486@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net> > >> > >The "Rythm Method" of ticket avoidance! > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > He laughed and gave me a ticket for ~40 in a 30. Beater wars! Brings back memories... my '67 Dart with a later "super six" 2bbl intake was surprisingly quick. I loved when people in V-8 powered cars or pickups would try to pass me in a turning lane... I don't think so buddy! :) nate > Same here - I thnk it was 1981 or 1982. I was a teenager driving a > 1973 Chevy Vega, my very first car which I purchased myself for $400. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > He laughed and gave me a ticket for ~40 in a 30. My brother owned a Vega. The very fact of this caused him such a depression, that he tried to kill himself. He tried getting up to top speed and ramming his car into a tree. But, he was driving a Vega and couldn't get up enough speed to do any damage. ;-) A few years later when he started a family he had to sell the thing. The infant car seat wouldn't fit into it. Doug > > Same here - I thnk it was 1981 or 1982. I was a teenager driving a > > 1973 Chevy Vega, my very first car which I purchased myself for $400. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Doug I had the "giood" Vega. In 75k miles: one thermostat and one axle seal. I guess I should mention one scored rotor from a rock that went into the cooling duct, that GM hadn't made with a screen to stop it. All other work was of my own desire: adding AC, fabricatimg a glovebox, styling, seats from another car, etc.) I need a small car now and would consider one. |
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