Scofflaw: Miata Owners be like?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
12/26/2018 at 09:10 • Filed to: None

Nice paint, though.

DISCUSSION (19)

Ash78, voting early and often > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 09:19

This is flagrant cultural appropriation of people who live in the upper Midwest and don’t take care of their cars!

LongbowMkII > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 09:22

Burnt?

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 09:43

Confession: I owned that Roadmaster for 14 months. I drove it around for the first month without registering it. Six months after I registered it, the front plate got ripped off in the dirt while rallycrossing it. I never replaced it. The plates expired while I was trying to sell it. Drove it around for another month with no front p late and an expired rear plate. Lesson learned: Roadma ster wagon s are invisible to cops

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
12/26/2018 at 09:50

Not as invisible as school buses. I drove one of those in like 1982 and since I lived on the opposite end of town, like six miles from the garage, I kept it parked near my home and would basically daily it. And go sit in it at night and idle the engine and party. But invisible? I’d see people I knew and honk at them and they’d look right past the bus. All 38 feet of it. 1971 Ford B600 with a Superior Coach and a 361 2-barrel V8. Bus 15. Clark overdrive transmission, if memory serves me. Fiberglass seats; 72 passenger.

I took chances at 18 that now make me blanch to think of them.

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Kinja'd!!!

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 10:03

You would not believe how many cars I saw rolling dirty in Mountain View. Seriously. You wouldn’t.

Whole bunch of fucking tech bros going “WELL STEVE JOBS DID IT AND I’M THE NEXT STEVE JOBS.” Willing to bet at least 75% of them also had no insurance on their unregistered, leased Mercedes convertibles.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 10:23

There’s a reason the Joker in Dark Knight Rises uses them as getaway vehicles.

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 10:23

I think we all took chances when we were young, that in hindsight boggle our mind.

citrus > shop-teacher
12/26/2018 at 11:49

I drove my Roadmaster three hours home without any plate at all, and then drove it for three weeks with the plate off my Corvette

Stealth 100

shop-teacher > citrus
12/26/2018 at 11:50

Oh yeah, never even saw a cop turn their head.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > citrus
12/26/2018 at 14:45

I think driving with the tag from the other car is the more grievous offense.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher
12/26/2018 at 14:46

Yes, but chances with other peoples’ lives.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/26/2018 at 14:46

Rolling dirty? I haven’t heard that phrase before.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 15:32

I have no idea of the prevalence of it, but basically, I was taught years back that “rolling dirty” or “riding dirty” was shorthand for the whole batch of plate infractions. So expired tabs, expired temp tags, bogus plates, bogus temp tag, or no tags at all.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/26/2018 at 15:43

Kinja'd!!!

You worked in Silicon Valley at one time? You just told me where you are now...do I remember Ohio?

RPM esq. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 16:37

For a brief period I had three cars without legal plates:

expired tabs while figuring out how to get it to pass emissions

vanity plates transferred to car no. 3 but left in poss ession of the consigning dealer working on selling car no. 2

expired out-of-state dealer tag, new plates transferred but not installed

I drove each of them at some point during that period. Never got a second look and was pretty confident the likely result of any law enforcement attention would have just been a warning or “fix-it ticket .” Had a meaningful conversation with myself about the meaning of white privilege, in that I felt completely safe and unconcerned about the potential consequences of this law-scoffing.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 16:39

I live in Ohio but worked remote for an SV company. Regular trips out to the company office which was literally around the corner from the Apple campus.

Possibly the only place on earth where you’d see people literally living out of rotted to shit, non-running RVs chocked and jacked up on city streets next to a brand new SL550 with no temps in the windshield and a plate advertising their ‘side hustle’ in back.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > RPM esq.
12/26/2018 at 17:11

I drove a car with no-good tags for more than a year, but the tags were Virginia and I was in Louisiana.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/26/2018 at 17:12

I have no trouble adopting your scorn for that set. I don’t see how any of them can be all that , and the little you’ve written about them only confirms it.

citrus > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
12/26/2018 at 17:43

only reason i had to was because there was an issue with the title and i wanted to put miles on it before a cross country trip lol