Crime Ford Model T driver and alleged meth, coke user nicked for multiple offences - The driver of a 100-year-old hot rod is facing court in New South Wales over a litany of vehicle and drug-driving offences

Ford Model T driver and alleged meth, coke user nicked for multiple offences​

The driver of a 100-year-old hot rod is facing court in New South Wales over a litany of vehicle and drug-driving offences.

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Here’s one you don’t see every day.

The driver of a 1923 Ford Model T hot rod was pulled over by Hills Highway Patrol officers after being caught allegedly “accelerating aggressively” in the Sydney suburb of Castle Hill, according to The Hills Police Area Command’s Facebook page.

While no photos were shown of the hot rod, we suspect it looks quite a bit different from the stock ’23 Model T pictured below.

The 24-year-old driver of the modified classic was allegedly detected travelling at 83km/h in a 60km/h zone.

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When he was pulled over, he allegedly returned a negative result from a roadside breath test, but on a roadside drug test he returned a positive result for cannabis and cocaine.

Police collected a secondary oral fluid sample, allegedly confirming the presence of cocaine and THC while also detecting methamphetamine.

The driver was issued a 24-hour prohibition notice and a defect notice for the vehicle.

Police claim the vehicle had “multiple faults including nonfunctional brake lights and indicators” and “had been modified beyond factory specifications and was deemed unroadworthy”.

The driver is now due to appear at Parramatta Local Court on August 14, 2025.

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Found this image on The Hills Police Area Command’s Facebook page.. Looks AI generated to me, but kinda cool nonetheless.

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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Hot rodders really annoy me. Mostly because they will destroy any car no matter how rare, leaving that many fewer genuine articles in their wake. And all of that to turn a classic into mess of suspension, roll cage and chrome that looks like every other hot rod.

The worst part of this article is here at the start:

A 100 year old car was destroyed to make the hot rod. The hot rod is not 100 years old.

My personal dislike of trashing antique cars aside, the police can fuck off with hassling drivers of these things. The hot rod for all its demerits is probably much safer than the pristine antique that lacks power steering, has a 90 degree corner on the solid metal dashboard and uses cable-operated drum brakes.
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You could buy 1920s, 1930s cars well into the 50s for then fifty dollars. Lots of kids bought them and a lot of them wanted to go fast. There were car clubs that ran them stock. Horseless Carriage Club of America was founded in 1937 for that reason but Ford made a gazillion Model T's and instead of being scrapped ended up in the hands of hot-rodders in the 50s and 60s. I respect what happened to them, it's history. Do you give a shit when hood rats fuck their 2005 Escalades up? Yeah.
 
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WebFelching said:
All of the guys I knew who owned them are now well dead of old age or headed there soon. Cool cars though.
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That is basically what's going on with everything pre 1965-1964ish, the market for them is thinning out fast. Oldest stuff I see at shows is mid 1960s.
 
Dammit Mandrake! said:
Anything made after 1988 is barely a car. They are all similar-looking blobs.

Hot rodders are a cancer and need to be executed in front of their loved ones.
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But they don't chop good cars to do them. They're 100 years old most of them are rusted up shitboxes. Stop glorifying some idealized past. Even back then these cars were disposable.
 
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