Thread: Why do the cops pick on Commodores?

I have sat inn the passenger seat of a D2 thinking please no cops. My friend is a plane nut, we had rescued a low flying mapping plane from the mangoves and cut the wings off and put the lot on a car trailer. Wings were on the side and many times higher than the car, we overhung by a mile, how no police saw us was a miracle if they had not sure how many tickets they would have issued. He has a pic somewhere need to ask him..
Chris

Many years ago (90 something), I rescued a mate's crumpledoor (and box trailer). We traveled about nearly 100 kms on the old Hume Highway to get him to a repairer. Even stopped at the old Jugiong pub for a feed. Never saw any Police but fairly sure they would have had an opinion about my "B-double".

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Try it now Paul.
About the same era I, on two separate occasions, towed another semi-trailer through Brisbane. One from the Turbot St off ramp to Eagle Farm, the other from Acacia Ridge to Brendale.

Do you reckon they'd pick on this?

Outside Dayboro Bakery yesterday (Sunday). Hmmmm, I wonder what JerryD is driving these days???????????

Originally Posted by Saitch

Do you reckon they'd pick on this?

Outside Dayboro Bakery yesterday (Sunday). Hmmmm, I wonder what JerryD is driving these days???????????

Or Mick_Marsh??

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Try it now Paul.
About the same era I, on two separate occasions, towed another semi-trailer through Brisbane. One from the Turbot St off ramp to Eagle Farm, the other from Acacia Ridge to Brendale.

Ian, plenty of that went on. I was heading out through Boonah one night to avoid the scales at Gailes (just a tad heavy!) and a set of headlights only came towards me and two unlit trailers were on behind. The late Fred. McDonald won a quote to take a Euclid rear dump and a Cedar Rapids mobile crusher from Fortitude Valley to Inverell. Fred forgot it was school holidays and no permits for over weight and dimension loads in school holidays. The customer of course wanted it yesterday. Fred filled a few fuel drums, forked them into the back of the Euc, hooked up the crusher and drove them down. Up narrow Martin St, and over the Story Bridge and hey-ho for Inverell. Told me he never sighted a copper the whole trip.

Should of driven a Ford cops wouldn't of caught him as he would of been home before they came or he could of driven a jeep and the cops would of just felt sorry for him

Amazing what we got away with because most people knew no better and it looked OK. I regularly used Hervey Range Road with two B s, an A and a dolly; I referred to it as an A-B Double.