>> Having their knackered clutches and transmissions replaced after a month or two of entertaining Aussie back-street wheelspin performances franfran?
They looked too good for that. And one of them had the bonnet, doors, boot and interior removed presumably in preparation for a respray. I think it might be a business that specialises in repairing and restoring "muscle cars".
Mustangs are a bit too expensive to attract that sort of person. They are more likely to be driving a Holden Commodore or Ford Falcon. In any case, changes to the Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act a few years ago have greatly reduced this type of behaviour. The act now contains a section which states that "a person must not, on a road or road related area, operate a motor vehicle in such a manner as to cause the vehicle to undergo sustained loss of traction by one or more of the driving wheels (or, in the case of a motor cycle, the driving wheel) of the vehicle". I don't know the details but, as well as substantial fines, 12 month licence suspensions and, in the case of particularly serious offences, jail terms of up to 9 months, there are sanctions relating to the detention, impounding and forfeiture of motor vehicles used in connection with street racing and burnouts.
All of which makes me wonder what became of some idiot I saw a couple of years back. He came out of a car park in a two door 1970s Falcon, wheels spinning and smoking, scattering pedestrians all over the place. What he didn't realise (or what his limited intellegence failed to register) was that the Police station was two doors up the road from the car park. A Police car took off in prsuit, and he was stopped a couple of blocks away....
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