Well, I always figured my first speeding ticket would come in my '53. However, I got lucky and just got a warning yesterday I had just pulled out of my driveway, got on the gas... and there he was coming around the bend behind a bunch of trees I was doing somewhere around 5-10 mph over when he went past me. I looked in the rear view and saw his brake lights come on... see him do a U-turn, and thought to myself...."well, here he comes!" Yep, on goes the overhead and off to the shoulder I park.

Well, everybody here knows the drill. "Hello there. I pulled you over for speeding back there...," he says. He was real courteous, he even said I had a real nice looking truck. He goes on to say that if I hadn't had any tickets in the last year he would just give me a warning. (I have never had a ticket in the 14 years I've been driving ) He goes back to his car, checks my stuff and is back in about a minute. "OK, I'm going to just give you a warning." "Thank-you", I said. Whewww, what a relief! Because I have no tickets is partly why my insurance is so cheap on my '53


So, who else has been pulled over in there Effie?

 

Wow! you got lucky!!

I've been pretty lucky in my F1, I made several trips around the neighborhood before I had plates and insurance without any problems. Shortly after I got tags and all the goodies I was driving home from the parts store, while sitting at a red light a cop pulled up next to me. He started asking about the truck and my plans for it, he casually mentioned that it would be advisable if I installed a license plate light. I told him I would get right on it, the light turned green and off we went. No harm, no foul.
I installed a light that very evening

I guess its a good thing he didn't catch me roasting the rear meats......

Bobby

 

I can only wish my 53 was running so I could have that worry. The last speeding ticket I got was in my old 79 F100 with slightly modified 460 (est. over 500 HP) This one sort of has a permanent spot in the back yard. When I decide to build a show truck, I will have the engine for it.

Jeff

 

Got a warning for running blue dots.

 

Didn't get a ticket in my effie, but I did in my 55' station wagon, I was out in dairy land near where I grew up when I was fresh outta H.S,getting ready to race my friend in his 63' Fairlane. Well my station wagon had a mildly warmed over 292 and 2 1/2" 2 chamber Flowmasters, well on the way I woke up a smokey. He comes up behind me (it was night time) and I saw the siloette of the light bar and I was over and stopped with my heart in my throat. He didn't even need to light me up. He said he had to get up to 70 to catch me, but he still wrote me up for 70 in a 45. I was to freaked out and young to try and argue. Luckily it's been my only ticket (Knock on wood!).

 

I have at a couple of funny ones:

I was driving the 56 to work early one morning and as I exited a roundabout I hit some black ice and the rear end (pro street with BIG tires) came round on me and I went past a cop BACKWARDS and pulled it up on the nature strip. He got out of the car, walked over too me and said "I love '56's. There my favorite" and then spent twenty minutes talking too me.

Another time I parked my hiboy model A roadster, with no mudgards, in a public carpark and when I came back a cop was sitting on a tire writting out a defect notice. I walked up and stood next too him with the keys in my hand and he looked at me and said "would you look at the scoop hanging out the hood on this Torana (Aussie Muscle car).....how could he think he would get away with that". He stood up to put the defect notice on the Torana parked next too me, and as I got into the rod to drive off he said "Nice A model. I love Hot Rods"

Luck? I don't know. I've never met a cop that wasn't into cool cars

 

Back in 1976, I drove my 55 F100 from Santa Cruz to San Francisco on Highway 1 in the wee hours of the morning; extremely drunk. Had a few quarts of Colt 45 and don't remember how many tall 45's.

Driving while drinking more Colt 45's, and pissing like a whipped dog.

CHP drove up and just tailgated me for a while.

What the hell? Finally he passed me and sped away.

He was just waiting for a passing lane.

Celebrated by downing another tall 45.

Made it home. Even made it by Devil's Slide.

Young and stupid.

 

There are good days and some not so good days. I`ve got some great breaks once I was past the teenie years but before that it was horrible for tickets. Now I just gets looks from the police with the arrest me red 67 Mustang Fastback that happens to be abit on the loud side.

 

I got a close call. so it wasd about mid day I had just finished putting in my 3.70 gears in my 9 inch and I was going to go give them a feel, so my onld man and I hop in and fire up the 351W with 3inch dual flowmaster super 40's, and we are going down the road at idle and setting off alarms. The truck is a 53' f-250 lowered with a 4 link rear and a volare front, the engine is a 351W with 425hp. We have not plates no nothing and we get on the main road and get up to speed and then we had to stop at the stop sign (go figure) so my dad steps on the gas and lifs the front end off the ground and we are heading up the hill and we turn around and start going down (my street is about a block away) and at the bottom of the hill is a cop and we are almost to the bottom of the hill and he goes across the intersection and there was no one there so we did an califorina stop and i saw the cop turn around and I told my dad to nail it so he slams the peddle to the floor and we hit 70mph before we get to my street, power slid around the corner fly down the street at 40 and the garage was open so we park in the garage and close it down and about 1 min later the cops comes rolling down the street looking for a primer green-gray 53 ford. we were never caught.

 

Years back me and some buddies were setting up a race, we were parked off to the side of the road waiting fora couple of other buddies to show up when a cop drives up. We were in our drag car, a 55 Chevy 2 door post with a 2 four tunnel ram, no hood, front runners, and slicks. My buddy was in his 41 ****** truck with a short box, front runners, narrowed rear, HUGE slicks, wheelie bar and a blown big block. The cop looks over our cars, talks to us a bit, explains that since our tires were all worn out and "bald" that maybe we should get them home and off of the street. With a sigh of relief we waid thanks and tried to outwait him before leaving (we both had fenderwell headers with open exhaust and didn't want to fire them off) Eventually we had no choice, the cop frowned a bit but didn't give us any trouble. he did follow us until it was apperant that we were taking them home.

Sometimes chickens...sometimes feathers
Bobby

 

Hey Guys,

About two weeks ago I was going though HotLanta and a Dekalb Co. Sherrif pulled me over doing about 75mph in a 55mph.

He said " Boy I been waiting here for you all day.."

I replied "I got here as fast as I could..."

Need less to say that const me about $245.00 that sure would have gone along way on parts.

 

The only one I received in my pickup was over 20 years ago. Just got off work (evening part-time) and was cruising around. I knew I was going over the speed limit, but the speedometer was unhooked at the time. The policeman said I was doing 53 in a 40 zone.

 

i got anothere one. This doesn't have to deal with trucks but I was visiting with my grandpa and working at his engine shop and I was like 13 and I got an order for a blown 429 and that was a fun build but any ways it was time to dyno it and it had to be driven over the next day (we never shipped engines we hand delivered them) so I finished it at 10:30pm and so we rushed it over to the dyno shop and got it all set up by 11:45pm and after filling it up with alcohol and fired it up we broke in the cam and by the time we shut it off and got it ready for the big pull the cops showed up and since it was for a company they couldn't do anything but they asked if they watch so we were like sure and gave them ear plugs and fired it up and started to pull and at wide open at 9,000 rpms we had flames shooting out of the headers and the engine made 1,000 and some change horsepower. but since then we keep extra pairs of ear plugs for the cops when they show up