Chevy C10 Impounded By Louisville Police In Street Racing Crackdown: Photos
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The Louisville Metro Police Department has posted a series of images to social media purportedly showing several cars that were recently impounded for street racing. The social media post is part of a broader effort by the police department to crackdown on illegal street racing. Among the vehicles shown in the images is a heavily modified first-generation Chevy C10 pickup truck.
“We’re still impounding cars for street racing,” the police department writes on social media. “Not at the level we were last year, but it’s still happening.”
According to the post, each of the vehicles shown, including the Chevy C10, are now confined to the police tow lot, where they will remain for the next six months. The vehicle owners are also facing a $1,000 fine, per the Louisville Metro Council’s latest street racing ordinance enacted last year.
“We’ve recovered stolen cars, guns and drugs searching for this activity,” the post adds.
The first-generation Chevy C10 in the images is seen loaded onto a flatbed tow truck. Notably, the truck’s hood has been removed, and extra-wide rubber is visible in the rear of the vehicle, hinting at the truck’s performance capabilities. However, according to a commenter on the LMPD’s post, the owner was allegedly caught peeling out, not engaging in a full-blown street race.
“Barely spun them,” one commenter notes. “This beast could have done way more than that.”
In addition to the Chevy C10, the post also shows several other impounded vehicles, including an S197 Ford Mustang, two Dodge Durango SRTs, and a Dodge Charger Scat Pack. According to the police, the driver in the Dodge Charger was caught speeding at 140 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Various law enforcement groups are now frequently posting to social media highlighting vehicles targeted in street racing crackdowns. Just last week, we covered a post made by the Portland Police that included a Chevy Camaro with Batmobile-themed graphics.
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Auction the cars off and use the money to combat these illegal events.
My C10 will never look like that. It’s too busy being an actual truck.
Totally agree. Or at least charge them 250/day impound storage fee. After 6 months, car is worth less than the storage fee(unless it is an exotic), and then auction it off to pay the storage. The message should be, street race, lose your car.
Define term Combat This, because I agree, but point out that: there are cameras on just about every intersection in America, and I have no idea what they do, but they do not seem to be used for surveillance of racing.
Next: even when Joe or Jane citizen reports this, calls 911, or poloce or sheriff directly, nothing happens, most of the time.
So what does it mean to Combat this? I am not Gaslighring ot being condescending, I am asking a serious and sincere question. I am not convinced ticketing, jailing, impounding the fewxyou cathc will prevent the many.
It has not worked in the past. If it did work, there literally would be no crime at all.
My city needs to start doing this. Same for red light runners.
In the 40s and 50s street racing became a problem in communities across the USA. A couple guys came up with an idea, they traveled from town to town, helped local street racers obtain a place to have races without endangering the public, they taught them how to hold races, and do timing, safety, fun. Then on to the next town. This became the NHRA, I benefitted from NHRA sanctioned tracks in the 70s where we could all go and for just a few dollars, race each other safely. We all had fun, it was cheap, and it was safer than being on the streets. Slowly, one by one these places closed. We canxall probably cite reasons and speculate, but the point is, having those safe places where you were told it was okay to drop the hammer really worked. We were teenagers. I really think we need this again.
In about 1951…
History. Wally Parks, editor of Hot Rod magazine and a dry lakes racer himself, began the National Hot Rod Association to promote “safety, sportsmanship, and fellowship” among hot rodders. The association gained about 25,000 members in its first year; within six years, it had more than 57,000 members.
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Hot Rod magazine and NHRA worked together to convince the general public and especially the police that there was a difference between hot-rodders and reckless street racers, sometimes known as “shot rodders”. They encouraged the involvement of adults, such as auto shop teachers and garage owners. The NHRA’s efforts to defend the image of the hot-rodder included a series of short films such as The Cool Hot Rod (1953) in which a delinquent teen learns that “a reckless kid in an old junker is not a hot-rodder at all. He’s a square.”[2]
NHRA initiated the 1954 “Drag Safari”, a nationwide tour to encourage organized drag racing with an emphasis on safety. Sponsored by Mobil Oil, the Safari crew would meet with law enforcement and local city officials at each stop to explain their program, involve local car clubs, set up sites, and run drag races.[3] Drag Safari would lead to the 1955 US Nationals for drag racing.[2]
I’d like to believe this would work, but it was a very different era legally. People did not sue over hot coffee back then. Track time is expensive in some part to cover liability insurance for the track.
Having dedicated race venues worked/works great back then for those of who got involved in racing, as I did in the ’60s. However, sprawling suburbia has closed down so many drag strips, road courses and ovals where I spent my time.
Most every track that I spent time on in the Pacific Northwest in Canada and USA closed and are now housing estates. Sadly, Langley Speedway, Haney, Westwood (Canada’s 1st permanent road course), Spanaway Speedway in WA state and many more endured this fate.
The almight dollar wins out eventually. I live in Mission BC, where we do have a drag strip combined with a road course and motocross course. There was a drag strip for many years very close to downtown just yards across the highway, that closed, became an industrial park with a fiberglass plant, and then an open shopping mall that currently occupies some of the old drag strip site.
Land was promised to replace the original track and it took several years of pressuring the city and government, before the land was given up and the new facility came to fruition alongside the river. Now, years later the city is trying to hustle the waterfront property for commercial and tourist development.
Unfortunately, it’s not the racers on the tracks who are at fault, but the “wanna bees” who think that they are emulating racers out on the streets and highways around town when arriving and leaving after race events. These are the idiots doing the most damage.
I see a lot of complaining, but not enough truly meaningful solutions, time to start fixing the kink in your think, you are all smart, put it to use.
Street racing will never go away, just move to a different location.
Any more, it’s all about the show for the crowd. Smokey burnouts, doing donuts & other stupid sheet!
Really smart when they video their antics, post it to social media, cops see it & they get busted. Brainfart 101!
They should also put some BBs in their motors while they’re in impound.
People who receive DUI don’t even get that bad for the first time. I believe anyone can get pulled over for spinning their tires, so the first time conviction should just be a fine. Second time, go ahead with the impound.
People who receive DUI don’t even get that bad for the first time. I believe anyone can get pulled over for spinning their tires, so the first time conviction should just be a fine. Second time, go ahead with the impound.