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Originally Posted by hillbilly

I have to agree with this to a point. We have three nice vehicles and one rag. The rag is a 94 S10 that my wife hit a deer in at 80mph back in 2000. Smashed the front all to hell. But I only repaired it just enough so it could still be driveable ( had her hold the brakes while I hooked a chain around the radiator support and yanked it hard enough with the tractor to pull the right front corner of the fender off the tire, then replaced the smashed battery, broken thermostat housing, broken temp sending unit,HVAC cover, etc ). But the radiator I did not replace as it didn't leak when I pulled it from being wraped around the fan. I placed it on the ground and stomped it out straight as I could and put it back in. No leaks to this day, and it's my daily driver ever since she replaced it with a new one after the crash. We never get pulled over here where we live but hell everyone knows us, and my truck. But sometimes on road trips I'll get stopped and asked for the vehicle paperwork ( tags & insurance ) and my DL's. After all checks out well it's have a nice day.

The way I understand it is they find alot of people driving with warrants out on them, wrong tags, no insurance, revoked DL's, drugs on them or in the vehicle, drinking, etc, more-so in older vehicles than more costly ones. I can pick three nice vehicles to hop in and go, but I like my old truck and drive it. I've driven it to many states the way it is for the last 14 years.. including the AK Fest way up in MI. Ugly, but very trusty. And most important, the seat fits my ass well. I hate how our newer truck drives, even though it is mint.

The cops are often instructed to target old vehicles because the opportunities for revenue increase with pulling them over for so called fix-it tickets. In California this impacts more on those who cannot afford nice vehicles, and on minority communities. It leads to a perception of profiling. One of my Filipino friends was constantly getting pulled over because he drove a beat-up 1991 Honda Civic that eventually hit 300,000 miles.