I have been pondering this car. However, you are right in what you say. As a fun toy to take to shows be them Mopar or Police shows is fine. Yet, what then. As a daily driver there is no issue with covering up the roof lights as it has none. I'm pretty damn sure you have to have HIGHWAY PATROL and their emblem covered up making the car a small PIA for driving around local roads. My friend, who has the AIR RESOURCE BOARD 1973 Polara with lights and siren, hardly drives that car. Too much attention and being international orange makes it very obvious.I'm sure MrMoparCHP knows all the California rules for driving one of public roads.
In general you have to cover everything, markings and lights.
Now, many just run the "NOT IN SERVICE" signs and cover the lights up.
The vehicle code also restricts having sirens in cars and are required to be disconnected, nobody does this.
I'm working with the blessing of the CHP and have and agreement to run their graphics, this is not an easy thing to get and I will follow the rules to the letter and cover everything up.
This agreement exempts you from needing to worry about having the siren(s) connected.
I have heard collectors talk about being stopped and told that they cannot drive their cars on the road without the agreement, not true (gets into a grey area on 1979+ cars).
But there are no restrictions on when, where or how often you can drive them, if I want it could be a daily driver.
We alway make a point to go with the flow, any faster people might thing we are taking advantage of the car (some think the State owns the car), slower causes traffic to stack up till they realize it is an older car,this happens more in the evening.
Alan
