car mods - legal?

I'd actually be quite amused if I saw that coming down the street :)

Can't say as *I* see anything obviously illegal about it, other than

*possibly* the tail, but then, I ain't a cop, and I drive a pure stock 'mobile.

Definitely. In order to be legal, you will have to provide a bilingual translation of the "SATANMOBILE" text.

"voiture de diable" should do.

Dan

Just don't go to Utah anytime soon

Dan

It would fit right in down here in Houston. It would have to pass a safety inspection though... lights, horn, etc.

It should pass the inspection - After all, he's going to install two "horns" on the roof! lol

Good place to mount air horns. Just imagine the blast that would create.

You're going to push a lot of hot buttons. I think your vehicle will be hassled when you are not in it. Be prepared to buy tires and glass. I think there's a lot of things a cop could ticket you for. At least they will be stopping you or obsrving closely. We would all get tickets if the police were watching us all the time. Something tells me police contact is nothing new to you.

(Un)fortunately, there are no laws about bad taste. So long as there is nothing that is obviously unsafe, you car can go on the roadways. However, if there is a cop that finds your vehicle to be personally offensive and he wants to make your life miserable, he will give you an impromtu safety check, based on the poor condition of your bodywork, so it is more important that your lights, parking brake, and horn work than being able to redress the vehicles tastelessness (In a badly PC place, the offended officer will not even mention the "SATANMOBILE" decorations and explain that you were hassled to insure that your vehicle is not a threat to public safety).

I'd forget about the tail, but otherwise I can't see why something would be illegal. The tail could be cited for any regulations regarding cars not damaging roads, danger of tripping people, no part of car except wheels touch the ground, etc. Other than that, I saw plenty of cars as strange looking as that when I lived in the Bay Area (they were more flower power than heavy metal though, this seems way more fun) and I've seen cars vandalized with some pretty bad spraypaint in the NY area as well, and those don't seem much better. I doubt the Canadian laws or

*that* much different.

You do know you'll probably get pulled over though, especially if your neck of the woods is conservative or not very cosmopolitan. Whether or not you have a good strict legal case, if the cop wants to give you a ticket he will, at which point it doesn't really matter if it's legal or not. Sure you can fight it in court or whatever, but at that point you've already lost since you'll be wasting so much time even if you are successful. Legality and reality don't always coincide.

Dave

Fuck conformity, I'm used to sticking out of a crowd. I spent high school trying to pointlessly blend with the crowd, I think the satanmobile just got the last little bit of desire for conformity out of my system.

I've since driven it a handful of times, and taken a weekend road trip with it. No hassle from the police, which is good since I probably would have been more than a little mouthy. I noticed a few different types of reactions from people:

1) Pretend (sometimes really hard) not to notice. Sometimes theyd sneak a glance and quickly look away when I caught them looking. 2) Offended, like they thought there should be laws against doing this. Sometimes it was just a concerned frown, head shake, or snort. These were probably christians or those with religious backgrounds, almost all the people that seemed to have a problem with me were over the age of 40. These were the reactions I liked, because these are the people I dont like. Several of these people would speed up so I couldnt merge in front of them, or cut me off. This reinforces my theory that christians are stupid, why would a fat middle aged person go out of their way to piss off a 6'6 satanist with rage issues while he's listening to deftones at full volume? Its asking to be beaten at a red light, there are several people out there that are lucky Im more mellow than that. 3) Laughter. Many people laughed, pointed, or elbowed another person to get them to look.

This concludes my expirement in the mainstream social acceptance of immature satanism. I'm now looking forward to painting the satanmobile properly, although Im not looking forward to patching up all the rust holes.

He, he, he ... just another fine example of a representative from the NRA.

Stupid american, it's not like that in my country. And when did I say I would get violent for someone laughing at me? The whole paragraph you quoted says nothing about laughter. Even an average american isn't as stupid as you, perhaps youre a christian as well?

Ya got that right DF. You never know what kind of hardware somebody's gonna roll out with in order to shut up some of these blowhards. I bet ol' 6'6" ragin Lyle, if that's his name this week, is really about 5'1" #350 with Cheetos crumbs rolling down his shirt huddled in front of his computer in his room and if his Momma finds out what he's writing she'll ground him and take away his 'puter.

Got something against Cheetos there, pardner? :)

JazzMan

a .38? .38's are for sissies. I carry a .45.

When you get serious, you'll switch from decimals to gauge.

Ed

Just be careful so you don't get a ticket for using that .45 in a .38 zone.