If you value three pedals, I think there’s a strong case to be made.

You know where they should do it? The middle of the Atlantic Ocean. No government has jurisdiction there. There also aren’t any roads for the car or landing/fuelling locations for the helicopter, so everyone and everything involved would soon be joining that stupid sub down by the Titanic.

You do have to drive like you’re invisible in a Miata... Because you’re well below the beltline of most trucks and SUVs.

I was thinking more along the lines of “some farmer’s field, far away from any actual police,” or maybe "an Indian reservation" but your answer is also technically correct as well haha

Seriously. This was merely a drive-by scrape from one of those F-Some-Fifty behemoths. Hopefully totalled, because it’ll never be right again.

Chunky salsa? You saying something about my diet?!

Unfortunately, the only lesson that will be learned will not be “don’t do this kind of stupid shit,” it will be “find somewhere to do this shit where the feds don’t have jurisdiction.”

Over 20,000 miles? Modded & tuned engine? How many transmission replacements for this thing so far?

Everything is harshly enforced in Virginia.

You nailed it haha!

I am, and already was, fully aware it has a separate etymology. The phrases jury-rig, jerry-built, and jerry-rig all have separate etymologies.

Exactly. It’s the over-correction death-spiral.

I'm going to count myself lucky that I don't know the term haha

I did. Did you? It contains the following words:

This is probably an instance of a misconception becoming so common that it supplants and replaces the actual truth haha

massive lifted boulevard queen jacked up Ford F some amount of 50

They might be calculating “width” as the distance between the doors while they’re open.  That’s probably the more critical definition of “width” when it comes to fitting cars into a garage or a parking space.

At least it doesn’t have that awful beaver-tooth grille, I guess?

He should probably just change his name, honestly.

Honestly, that misconception is probably so common that it has become the truth haha