Cop question

[tyrone27 at gmail.com (Derrick floyd)]

ok but when a cop is behind you and punches in your tag number what comes up?

On 5/3/05, Marc Getty <marc@getty.net> wrote:
> 
> Tom has a great answer, but let me tell you what can be found in PA.
> 
> Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation is alergic to computers so there
> ain't info. The year, make, model, and body style can be decoded directly
> from the VIN number, everything else must be found out via paperwork from
> the state. PA does not ask any questions other then VIN number and to see
> the previous title when you register a car, so they don't know the color or
> trim level.
> 
> Just ask the 337 and 20th people who get all insulted when people call their
> uber-rare limited editions "a GTI", or better yet "a Golf"! ;-) There is not
> much data to separate the models.
> 
> If anyone can find out how it is the insurance companies because they have a
> reason to know, and they don't have all that much data either. The worst off
> insurance wise are BMW M drivers. M's all start with WBS (BMW Motorsport)
> instead of WBA (BMW AG) making it easy as hell to charge out the ass for the
> extra oomph.
> 
> -Marc
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces+marc=getty.net@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+marc=getty.net@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
> floyd
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:51 PM
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> Subject: Cop question
> 
> hi guys anyone on here a cop or know someone in law enforcement?  when thet
> run your tags in the cop car does it say the color of the car, weather its a
> sedan or wagon,
> 
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