Hey i need to take my car into a body shop some time this week and get my doors fixed right, since TDS new hinge bolts and door tool didnt work! Anywho, I'm wanting to drive without my front fenders on and my hood off. Is this legall or am i playing with fire here?

 

I think it may be illegal to drive with your hood off but im not sure about the fenders. Plus laws are different everywhere. You always say that your going to the body shop. good luck!!

 

hey thanx, im in iowa so cops are few and far between lol

 

Im actaully gonna have to drive with my hood off thursday, because Im going to go pick up a new hood, and Im just going to go there, and bolt it on.

 

some states I know of it is illegal to drive with out fenders. hoods is the same way. Call your local cops and ask about the local laws

 

im pretty sure for it to be leagal the car needs to have a repair plate on it. i work at a body shop in connecticut and whenever we have to drive a car thats disassembled as you described we have to replace the registered plate with a repair one. the body shop your going to should have a repair plate and should be able to come pick up the car.
matt

 

i would say no you cant drive with no hood or fenders. it must be a safety hazard or something.....but driving with no hood makes everyone look

 

Ramair 21 is right, it differs from state to state. In Oklahoma it is illegal and we don't have repair plates. If you get pulled over for any damage offense you will get a ticket but if you repair it before 30days the ticket it waved.

Dumb Laws

 

umm if the hood and the fenders are off whats holding the headlights in? the front end is held on by the fenders,, so driving without them suported and bolted would be disasterous when it falls and you run it over.

i would think the hood you could get away with but you need side marker lights as per regular safety inspections. that would get ya stopped for sure.

jeff

 

the front end is for sure on there, and the head lights have there own brackets. i think it would be cheaper to pay a ticket then have my car towed across town.

 

The cops would say its a modification cuz the car wasnt intended to be driven like that.penal code blah blah blah

 

you think i would know this since im going to be a cop within a year

 

just drive very fast so no one sees you .

 

 

**** it i would drive it without the fenders and hood. Legal or not i would just say im taking it to the bodyshop.

 

 

man o man. ill give you my iroc for that girl in the red dress in the middle

 

Ill take the one in purple

 

Drove w/o out a hood for a week and down to Fl ot get my sunCoast one. Passed many cops who said nothing. Joe went w/o fenders and hood for a while adn no one said anything!

 

I'll take either one of the brunette's on the left side in the front

 

I'll take all of them.

 

hey stallin, ive seen your maro at school. yes it is illegal to drive w/o fenders (not sure about hood) however i have a friend that drove his toyota pickup with his like 33's open and didnt have a problem

 

Your question made me crack-up thinking about thinking about when I got my car painted... I drove it to the shop with no nose, fenders, hood, ground-effects, rear bumper or spoiler on it. I even had the front turn signal bulbs hanging and just attached the taillights with 1 bolt each! Hell, I'd even removed all of the weatherstripping! My car got more attention in that 8 mile drive than it did the previous 6 years!! LOL

 

but the girl in the red...


anyway, i say drive it, and if the cops try and pull you over, your car will be lighter, so you could out run them.

 

That's strange. The only law I saw for OK considering a vehicle is.....


Molesting an automobile is illegal.


I guess that was put in place to protect the third generation.



Just drive the car. In Iowa you wouldn't be bothered much about it.

 

so hows it goin? did it go on straight?

 

haha Parks911, I couldn’t even contemplate having a molested Firebird....