[jims69camaro]

i couldn't find anything under Title 39 of the New Jersey law resource (pertains to motor vehicles) with specific language banning the use of a motor vehicle on the road if it didn't have a hood. i do agree that cops can get fairly creative when writing tickets and most people are ill-equipped to fight those tickets by themselves in the court system.

i would like a cop to back up the presumtion that a car is unsafe merely because it doesn't have a hood. especially if it's a fuel injected vehicle with a closed system (unlike a carburetor that's open to the air). it'd be one for the lawbooks, that's for sure.

funny how most cops don't enforce the laws that are already on the books, though, like the ban on hand-held cell phones. and i heard some cops would laugh if they put a ban on smoking while in your car in the laws - they say there are far more dangerous things that motorists engage in while driving (smoking related to only one percent of the 39,000 traffic accidents last year - i haven't seen cell phone numbers yet). if someone is involved in an accident while talking on their cell phone, how likely are they to admit to it once the cops arrive on the scene? same thing with smoking...