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Message: <blockquote data-quote="03DSGGT" data-source="post: 1081288" data-attributes="member: 14880">Well, it wasnt a crazy ticket, but it was my first and most memorable...I was 18, and it was my high school graduation day (2001). My dad and I own a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 R/T. Well he handed me the keys and told me to take it out for the day and cruise around. Ive driven the car a handful of times, but I was always with my dad. The car was ordered with no power steering and no power brakes (4 wheel drum), so I never felt comfortable driving it by myself with manual brakes and steering with a big block over the front suspension. So I take it out, and the first place that I go is to my buddy's house and pick him up. I was kind of grandmaing the car around and everything was going well. So I proceed to make a right hand turn onto a street, and there were two girls walking by, they say nice car, so naturally my buddy tells me to punch it. So being young a naieve, I nail it halfway through the turn. The car got sideways and being that it was a concrete road, the tire shreak was loud as could be. Somehow I was able to control it and look like I knew what I was doing, and as soon as the car straightened out, I see a cop sitting in a driveway shooting radar about 200 yards ahead of me. I knew I was caught, so I just pulled over and waitied for him to come out. He and another cop came up on either side of the car, and of course the first words out of his mouth were did my dad know I had the car out? lol I was so scared especially being my first ticket, and knowing that if my dad knew I was hot rodding the car, it would be my last time. I tried giving him a story that my dad and I just adjusted the transmission kick down linkage, and that it wasnt adjusted properly, but the cop didnt want to hear it. He and his partner went back to the car, and came back a few minutes later. He told me that they were going to TOW the car! I started freaking out, and both cops started laughing and he told me he was joking. He said that he just wanted to put some fear into me and for me to think about how mad my dad would be if it got impounded. Needless to say it put plenty of fear into me. It was a couple years before my dad found out about the ticket, and by that time, I had done enough work on the car, and had it out to enough car shows by myself that pops couldnt be mad. The car is now currently being rotisserie restored by me and Im showing pops how to weld and do body work...so its something that we now laugh about when were out in the garage working on it...</blockquote>