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What should be penalty for 20mph+ over limit speeding?

What should happen for the over 20mph violation example given?

  • Acknowledge the no-traffic and quality of vehicle in consideration.

    Votes: 3 5.6%
  • Severe chastizing but only written warning.

    Votes: 2 3.7%
  • A ticket, but written for under 20 over due to circumstance.

    Votes: 2 3.7%
  • Write a ticket for over 20 mph but under 100 mph

    Votes: 2 3.7%
  • Write a ticket forthe full 170 mph

    Votes: 21 38.9%
  • A huge $$ fine

    Votes: 10 18.5%
  • Permanently seize car and forfeture it.

    Votes: 3 5.6%
  • Jail time

    Votes: 3 5.6%
  • Suspend driver's license for 1 year

    Votes: 7 13.0%
  • Suspend driver's license for years.

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Total voters
    54
You never told me how much you got the the '68 300

What condition was it in 1 - 6 and what was the selling Price?

15k, it was drivable but didn't look like much, needed complete restoration, but it was a numbers car with a 440
 
I hope for his sake that is true.

In Nevada a friend had a new Chevy truck engine in his '81 Z-28. This was back in the '90s. DMV told him it was an illegal engine Exchange. It was blowing 0s.

They made him get a 1981 engine, from a Chevy station Wagon with a carb and he had a hard time getting it to pass smog.

It seems counter productive to me if the goal is to have cleaner burning cars. Everybody knows 1981 was the worst year for cars ever.

I'm not saying your wrong, but something doesn't sound right about that. Was it DMV that told him that or DEQ? When I was in Tucson in the late 1990s, some of the DEQ inspectors were real zealots and would argue or try to fail cars with engine swaps. They will tell you it is "altering" emissions equipment. However, they should of made him, if missing or altered, correct the engine for emissions equipment for the year of the block. If putting a Big Block motor into a car that only came with a small block, then any small block should of been fine, not just one from that year model.

A 350 ci chevy engine is a 350 ci chevy engine. Main differences between some were whether they had 2 bolt or 4 bolt mains, iron block or aluminum. The numbers on the 454 I bought, that series of motors were put in cars, trucks and motorhomes. Someplace like Cali, and maybe Nev, I've never lived there, might say something if you put a Big Block into a car that didn't have that option for that year. The extra weight would affect handling, breaking, safety, lots of things. Big Block was an engine option on the car I'm working on.
 
The reason for "2o over" is because that is the cut point between just a ticket and severe consequences in most states. I used the 170 mph standard and situation (open highway and no other vehicles in sight) as a question of whether people want others severely punished solely on the principle of punishment regardless of harm or risks to others.

Ah, ok.

I don't know if it still holds true, never experienced it myself, but was told that in Texas, pretty much anything over 100 and you go to jail. Maybe bad info, maybe outdated info.
 
Ah, ok.

I don't know if it still holds true, never experienced it myself, but was told that in Texas, pretty much anything over 100 and you go to jail. Maybe bad info, maybe outdated info.

No, you are probably right. It is different between states.
 
Areodynamic challenges are shown in the Bugatti Veyron. Top speed of any to date? 269 mph.

At 140 mph the rear airfoil will automatically come up and the car automatically drop to 3.5 inches ground clearance. HOWEVER, in this form the computer will NOT allow a top speed run. The rear airfoil provides 770 pounds down force.

To seek top speed, the driver must stop and turn a special switch. The car analyses whether it will allow it. If so, it will drop the car to 2.6 inches ground clearance, will keep the airfoil retracted and close the front air defuser because the ground effects slows the car down.

Ground effects (wings, spoilers, etc) may improve cornering and stability. But they slow a car down due to areodynamic drag they cause.
 
I'm not saying your wrong, but something doesn't sound right about that. Was it DMV that told him that or DEQ? When I was in Tucson in the late 1990s, some of the DEQ inspectors were real zealots and would argue or try to fail cars with engine swaps. They will tell you it is "altering" emissions equipment. However, they should of made him, if missing or altered, correct the engine for emissions equipment for the year of the block. If putting a Big Block motor into a car that only came with a small block, then any small block should of been fine, not just one from that year model.

A 350 ci chevy engine is a 350 ci chevy engine. Main differences between some were whether they had 2 bolt or 4 bolt mains, iron block or aluminum. The numbers on the 454 I bought, that series of motors were put in cars, trucks and motorhomes. Someplace like Cali, and maybe Nev, I've never lived there, might say something if you put a Big Block into a car that didn't have that option for that year. The extra weight would affect handling, breaking, safety, lots of things. Big Block was an engine option on the car I'm working on.

It was a DMV investigator trying to make his life as difficult as posible but according tot he federal, putting a newer engine in an older car is an illegal engine Exchange.
 
It was a DMV investigator trying to make his life as difficult as posible but according tot he federal, putting a newer engine in an older car is an illegal engine Exchange.

Even though that newer engine probably has better milage and emissions. Makes no sense.
 
Even though that newer engine probably has better milage and emissions. Makes no sense.

Exactly. It made no sense. It was a complete waste of time and money, but that is what the law is or was.
 
While this may not longer be the law and obviously only a street-race car, I seem to remember if a car is switched to alcohol it is exempt.
 
I wish this had been a multiple choice poll.

The officers job is to write a ticket for the full speed, arrest the driver for reckless driving.

The courts job is to rule on the reckless driving and both administer a stiff fine and a license removal for a significant period of time.

Had something gone wrong with another person somehow getting in the way on the presumably "empty" highway, the charge should be murder 2.
 
On a vaguely related note, has anyone noted the reflex-like behavior which drivers display when they see a cop car watching for speeders on a highway?

Everyone slows down, and usually most of them tap the brakes at least....Even if they were already going the speed limit or slower...
 
Yes, I think it is almost an automatic reaction.
 
When I was an MP on Camp Pendleton. When ever I pulled some over going that fast I would give them a ticket of wreck-less driving and I would tow and impound there vehicle.
 
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