If we treated cars like guns...

[JustWondering]

Not sure if something like this has been posted (didn't see anything), but here is my list. Feel free to add or to include lists for other things (like sliverware)...

If Cars Were Treated Like Guns

- Everyone wishing to purchase a car has to undergo a background check. Any driving related offenses, mental illness, felonies, or domestic violence accusations would disqualify potential purchasers.
- A separate and more rigorous background check is required to obtain a driver’s license.
- Some states do not recognize the driver’s licenses of other states.
- Some states limit the number of gallons of fuel one can pump into their cars.
- Some states regulate what cosmetic additions one can put on their car. For example: in New York one can not have both rear and front bumpers, tinted windows, or fuzzy dice in the window.
- Some state require that your car have a unique tire tread so that it can be tracked every time it is driven not at an approved track.
- In certain states, a background check is required every time you lend your car to someone and when they give it back.
- Some classes of cars (like the ultra quiet and sneaky electric cars) require an extra background check to purchase, an extra $200 tax stamp, and Federal approval to drive them across state lines.
- Some cities (like San Francisco) would require you to store your car in a locked garage when you weren’t driving it.
- Drunks don’t kill people, cars do.

[alpacaheat]

Different take on the title:

I'd wash and wax my car after every trip.

No cheap gas, only quality fuel.

I'd only park it in back corners of the lot, concealed by a tree so no one can see it in public.

I'd get one for my wife and have it re-painted pink.

A compact car as a daily driver (and for Church) and a full-size with extra capacity for trips into the city, or when I go to a BBQ.

I'd teach my son to drive before he's 16.

When the girl starts dating, I buy more cars to intimidate the boys. Big, scary cars that I wax every time they grace my doorstep. I insinuate that they'll get run over by one if they even look at my daughter.

I chase off solicitors with a car.

Upgrade the steering wheel if I don't like how it feels.

"No officer, I have no cars you need to know about."

I chase off bears with a car.





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[scruff]

Nobody needs a car that goes 80 mph.

Nobody needs a high-flow intake or a straight-through catback exhaust system.

Those coffee-can exhaust tips scare me.

[alpacaheat]

Nobody needs a car that goes 80 mph.

Nobody needs a high-flow intake or a straight-through catback exhaust system.

Those coffee-can exhaust tips scare me.

No one needs more than 4 spark plugs.


I HATE those coffee can fart cannons, especially on Hondas.

[daschnoz]

- You can't build a sports car, then use it like a truck. (shouldered AR pistol w/ Sig wrist brace)
- Certain fuel grades would only be available if there is no small car that uses that grade of fuel. (AP ammo)
- Car free school zone. (It's for the safety of the children)
- Your mechanic would need a Federal Automobile License (FAL) if he owns a tow truck or if you have a car shipped to him for repair.
- The AG can suddenly decide that your driver's license issued from another state is no longer recognized in PA - simply because she said so.


The following are based on proposed laws/regulations
- Any time someone purchases more than 5 gallons of fuel, the purchase must be reported to the government. (bulk purchase)
- Fuel with an octane rating that is higher than 92 would be banned. (M855)
- CLOSE THE CAR SHOW LOOPHOLE!!!!!!

[scruff]

I HATE those coffee can fart cannons, especially on Hondas.

LOL, I used to have an Integra daily driver set up for autocross. Intake, exhaust, springs, adjustable shocks, sway bar, racing slicks... It was an MSR - Modern Sporting Race car, not to be confused with an actual race car. And it sounded fabulous going through the Liberty Tubes.

The car was spun occasionally in competition and took out its share of cones, but it never killed anyone.

[DennisH82]

"MOLON LUBE"

[Solaran_X]

No one needs more than 4 spark plugs.


I HATE those coffee can fart cannons, especially on Hondas.

Full 2.5" Magnaflow exhaust from the block back with high flow cats and a 3" muffler tip that sits pretty much flush with my rear bumper. My 4 cylinder sounds like a big 6 or small 8 to most people.

[DennisH82]

As long as it doesn't sound like a mosquito on steroids with severe gas as your roll forward at 1 MPH with the pedal to the floor.

[alpacaheat]

Full 2.5" Magnaflow exhaust from the block back with high flow cats and a 3" muffler tip that sits pretty much flush with my rear bumper. My 4 cylinder sounds like a big 6 or small 8 to most people.

No it doesn't.