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Old 22-05-2018, 03:50 PM   #1
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Default Police bust a car being driven without a seat, windscreen or speedo

What was this guy thinking?

Using a stool as a seat on a towel not to scratch the floor.

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Old 22-05-2018, 03:55 PM   #2
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One stab of the load pedal would have been interesting!
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Old 22-05-2018, 06:05 PM   #3
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Default Re: Police bust a car being driven without a seat, windscreen or speedo

At least they wouldn't have failed the car with a faulty cracked screen . Bit hard to do that when there isn't one there anyway . Good job it wasn't a Ford because they would have booked him for the perennial "Seating position too high and not enough adjustment ".. Nothing could be further from the truth with this one ..
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Old 23-05-2018, 06:32 PM   #4
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One stab of the load pedal would have been interesting!
Nah, whether it was an ecotec or Ls1, there’d be no pull or G-forces at all, just loud noises.. no wonder the driver had no hesitation using a stool
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Old 24-05-2018, 02:21 PM   #5
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One stab of the load pedal would have been interesting!
That would be the clutch?
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Default Re: Police bust a car being driven without a seat, windscreen or speedo

Looks like a "cashed up" version of RoadKill ..



Americans appear to allow almost anything to be driven on the street ..
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Old 24-05-2018, 12:22 PM   #7
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Looks like a "cashed up" version of RoadKill ..

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Americans appear to allow almost anything to be driven on the street ..
You only need to watch some of the car shows on Foxtel, or Netflix for some of the things they drive on the streets

"Faster car" in particular, they cannot be road legal!
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Old 23-05-2018, 08:21 AM   #8
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Its a Holden....whats your problem. End of story
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The driver/owner must've been drunk, what a tool lol.

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What was this guy thinking?

Using a stool as a seat on a towel not to scratch the floor.

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Rubber chocks on the passenger side floor; looks like someone was working on a race car and decided to take the unfinished project to the street for a test drive..... or was he going to get out and use them instead of the hand brake? Idiot.
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some one say hoon ! wheres ACA
was it impounded never to be seen again ( or even crushed ? )
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happens more than you think

my brother got done sitting on a milk create in my dads project mini when he was 14
the cops followed him home and he got a warning, we used to drive the culdesac in all the project cars but my brother took the mini to the shops up the road
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