v10enomous
Enthusiast
So it's sunny here today, blue sky, 70s, the street sweeper did my neighborhood the other day... Had the stripes installed last weekend... Gave her a wash and tried out the Turbo Wax sample from Tito... Car's looking great I drive 15 miles to my sister's house and take my 15 year old Godson and my Brother-in law for a ride and head home...
Now in NJ for a collector car you first need to register your car normally and then apply for a collector status voucher which limits you to 3k per year and inspection is only visual and they only verify the odometer reading every two years. I also sent for personalized plates. So i have my collector voucher and the stub for my new plates but no new plates yet so I can't go for the collector inspection.
Well anyway after riding my nephew around I figure I'll take my wife about 10 miles to her favorite ice cream palce but I have the old plate on back and no front plate or inspection sticker.
So I'm on a 2 lane state highway 15 in the right lane driving 53 in a 55 and a gang of motorcycles decides to give me some sort of ****** while gawking at the car. Now on the median is a municipal patrol car and I go by only to look back and see him pulling out. So he pulls me over in the dunkin donuts about 1/4 mile short of the ice cream place. I was very polite and cordial and had all the paperwork for the collector status and the plates that were coming. So he goes back to his car and gets the violation codes book and says none of this matters...
Then tells me to crank up the windows so he can inform me that the tint is too dark and that I need a front plate and that he didn't see my seat belt on although it was on. I guess because it straps opposite it's on the wrong shoulder...
So he does me a favor allegedly and only writes me for the inspection sticker and the front plate about $200 total... Half my friends are cops that know prosecutors and my neighbor is a municipal traffic attorney and my Brother-inlaw from earlier in the day is a NY/NJ Port Authority Sargent and a few of these guys said the cop was just being a *****...
The kicker is that the mailman came just before I left with my wife and the new plates were in the mailbox the whole time...
So I put both plates on... The front is on with the Parts Rack removable holder but I'm not sure about the frames
Now in NJ for a collector car you first need to register your car normally and then apply for a collector status voucher which limits you to 3k per year and inspection is only visual and they only verify the odometer reading every two years. I also sent for personalized plates. So i have my collector voucher and the stub for my new plates but no new plates yet so I can't go for the collector inspection.
Well anyway after riding my nephew around I figure I'll take my wife about 10 miles to her favorite ice cream palce but I have the old plate on back and no front plate or inspection sticker.
So I'm on a 2 lane state highway 15 in the right lane driving 53 in a 55 and a gang of motorcycles decides to give me some sort of ****** while gawking at the car. Now on the median is a municipal patrol car and I go by only to look back and see him pulling out. So he pulls me over in the dunkin donuts about 1/4 mile short of the ice cream place. I was very polite and cordial and had all the paperwork for the collector status and the plates that were coming. So he goes back to his car and gets the violation codes book and says none of this matters...
Then tells me to crank up the windows so he can inform me that the tint is too dark and that I need a front plate and that he didn't see my seat belt on although it was on. I guess because it straps opposite it's on the wrong shoulder...
So he does me a favor allegedly and only writes me for the inspection sticker and the front plate about $200 total... Half my friends are cops that know prosecutors and my neighbor is a municipal traffic attorney and my Brother-inlaw from earlier in the day is a NY/NJ Port Authority Sargent and a few of these guys said the cop was just being a *****...
The kicker is that the mailman came just before I left with my wife and the new plates were in the mailbox the whole time...
So I put both plates on... The front is on with the Parts Rack removable holder but I'm not sure about the frames
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