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Many of us own shirts and bumper stickers that make fun of cops, and their alleged love of donuts. Is your bumper sticker on your tool box or on your car? Do you have the guts to wear the t-shirt? My friend wears his, and it was only a matter of time before he got pulled over while wearing it.

Coming back from Mt. Charleston in the yellow Lamborghini Diablo—pictures of the car can be found elsewhere on FlyingPistons.com and ReverClothing.com. He passed a slow-moving truck as a police cruiser came around the curve. Memories get a little hazy as to whether a solid yellow line was crossed.

The officer was polite, and our hero did his best to cover his chest while explaining that he only sped up to pass a truck that was holding up traffic. All of a sudden the cop asks, “What does your shirt say?” Figuring honesty was the best policy, my friend answers “What speeding tickets pay for…” while twisting so the officer can see the illustration of cops eating donuts. He now knows it will be a few seconds before he knows whether his day just got worse. The officer will either think it is funny, or things are about to get expensive.

As you can tell by the photo, things turned out OK. You might think it was me shooting this photo of Chris in front of the cop car… It wasn’t. It was the cop, who was a great sport. He even let our fearless friend off with a warning.

We at Rever Clothing have thought about doing funny cop t-shirts since this happened. But we probably won’t, for the same reason we don’t have the courage to put “Bad cop… No donut” bumper stickers on our cars. Truth be known, we love the police and associate with many of them. We’ll keep those T-shirt ideas in the drawer.

So, what should you wear to a traffic stop? Are you kidding? We’re in the T-shirt business. The answer is a Rever T-shirt. We recommend you check out Flying Pistons, Turbo or Treadburst. Get some shirts for car lovers!

Lamborghini Las Vegas sponsored a track day at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump it’s just over the hill from Rever’s T-shirt central command . We were excited to have a free track day, but we ran into problems on our way out of town.

Four of us were cruising—we had a Ferrari 575, Ferrari 308, my Pantera and a Lamborghini Diablo—and passed a BLM park ranger going the other way. He lit up the gumballs, turned around and came screaming past me (wasn’t worried - I wasn’t speeding) to pull over the 308. The rest of the group kept going—sorry unnamed friend.

The 308 was for sale and belonged to the driver’s employee. Our friend was driving it to the track as a favor… Give the car a little exposure and maybe attract a buyer. As it turns out, there was no proof of insurance in the car, and the our friend had to explain to the ranger why the car wasn’t even registered to him. The ranger was understanding and didn’t write a ticket for the lack of insurance, but he did give the driver a ticket for doing 75 in a 65. Fair enough.

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Some of my favorite Ferrari Club events are really Viper Club events… That we crash.

I love driving, and the Viper guys drive pretty hard. When I heard they were making a run to Hoover Dam, I called my friends and told them when and where to invade the Viper drive. To my amazement, LOTS of folks showed up.

The drive turned out to be pretty uneventful as it is often one lane (each way), and construction further slowed our pace. But it was still fun to eat breakfast with fellow drivers, make a few friends, and see the dam.

Despite our recollection of constantly driving BELOW the speed limit, one of our gang still managed to get pulled over. Correction: I originally thought her ticket was for speeding, but it turns out there are no speeding tickets in the National Park; she got a “wasting a finite resource” fine.

Wasting a finite resource? Anyone that knows my Pantera knows I should get that ticket when I pull out of the driveway every morning. 8.5 mpg my friends! But I was practically “going green” that day by driving my wife’s car. It is the silver Porsche in the pictures, and it probably gets twice the mileage my car does. And it is pretty.

BTW: Hoover Dam is a must-do morning or afternoon road trip when you come to Vegas. Beware in the summer. If your car no likey the heat, then you may want to check with the weatherman; temperatures break 120 degrees in the canyon during the summer, and you’re going to spend a lot of time idling. Aside from the heat, it’s a spectacle even if you’re not into non-automobile engineering wonders. Put on your favorite T-shirt and enjoy your dam drive.