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Sunday, December 18. 2011

Pimp your ride with cart lights

All it takes is to hook a doohickey to the 12 V battery, and you can ride in style. You can do it with your truck or car, too:


Posted by Capt. Tom Francis at 22:39 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I like how you pimped your rides. Ground effect kits and twirling hubcaps would help make the season bright.

One little suggestion though: Snapshots first, eggnog second.
#1 Jephnol (Link) on 2011-12-18 22:52 (Reply)
Well, in my defense, it was lousy light, my point 'n shoot took a delayed picture for some reason I don't understand and I'm a teetotaler so it wasn't, evidence besides the point, over indulgence of the Evil Demon Rum. :>)

Our cart is the blue one and we're adding the lift kit, over size tires and pimping out the interior in January. I love the thing to tell the truth - it's great for just running around the complex. At .02ยข a mile to run, you can't beat it for short errands or for running down to the marina.
#1.1 Tom Francis on 2011-12-19 08:08 (Reply)
I used to put Christmas lights on my duck boat in my dirveway until Mrs. BD banned camo duck boats from the driveway under the mistaken belief that such things were not really appropriate in our neck of the woods.

Pshaw.
#2 Bird Dog on 2011-12-19 00:32 (Reply)
I know - what is it with women and boats in front of the house anyway? Same thing with my Mrs. - "we're not a marina", "why do you need four boats?", "I want those boats off my lawn"....sheesh....
#2.1 Tom Francis on 2011-12-19 08:12 (Reply)
Alas, you will get stopped for displaying colored lights to the front of the vehicle. Red and blue are particularly frowned upon.
#3 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2011-12-19 01:28 (Reply)
True story. Before we moved down here, and while I was still on the fire department, I had a permanently fixed set of blue emergency flashers, a blue strobe on the dash board and one in the rear window of both my truck and Mrs. Shortwave's car. In Connecticut, blue flashing lights are reserved for volunteer fire responders.

We were coming down for Christmas and as it happened, there was an accident just south of Charlotte over the SC border on I-77 - it was late at night, the car was way off into the pucker brush and I only noticed it because I saw the skid marks and caught a flash of chrome as we passed by. So I pulled over, backed up, found the car, flipped on the blue flashers and called 911 then climbed down the embankment to see if there were injuries - there weren't, but the driver and passenger were drunk.

Well, SC Highway Patrol shows up, did their thing and then just as I was getting back into the car to continue, the Trooper shows up and gives the car the once over, then issues a warning for having flashing blue lights on the car - he told me he was doing me a big favor because it was a $1,200 fine for having blue flashing lights on the car.

I found out later the kid was a rookie as he was a academy classmate of my son. He actually apologized to me for doing it but he had called his Lieutenant who said to write the warming. No harm no foul. I did get my revenge on the Lt. though - we attended a HP Post Christmas Party and I told the story to my son's Captain who called this poor trooper's Captain who subsequently read the riot act to the Lt. :>)

But they do not like blue lights on cars down here.
#3.1 Tom Francis on 2011-12-19 08:27 (Reply)
I will usually ignore a lit Santa or a wreath on the grill, as they are pretty obvious as temporary Christmas decoration, although the Wisconsin State Patrol is pretty strict about that sort of thing, here in WI, decorative lights are not actually kosher with the DMV. I am just a county Badger, and have other things to worry about, but I do draw the line at multicolored lights to the front. There are a lot of red lights in Christmas light strings, and they will move in the slipstream of the vehicle, so someone with Christmas lights on the car as it goes down the road will, in fact, probably without realising it, be displaying red, blue, green, and white flashing lights. I will, unfortunately, have no recourse but to show you the pretty red and blue LEDs of my Federal Signal ARJENT lightbar. While I won't write you a ticket, because I am a kindly Badger, ( after all, what animal is more a symbol of kindly affability than a Badger ? ), but I will give you a 3 day to remove them.
#3.1.1 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2011-12-20 02:17 (Reply)
If you enjoy pimped golf carts, you must treat yourself to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrpq5A-KAoA

I just had an email from a friend who's driving to California for the holidays with a fully lit Christmas tree wrapped in Saran wrap and tied to the roof of her station wagon. Wish I could post the photo here.
#4 Texan99 (Link) on 2011-12-20 09:18 (Reply)

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