Victoria’s oldest hoon nabbed

By George Skentzos | January 06th, 2009

While media focus on P-plate traffic incidents continues to fill the headlines, it is worth mentioning that a 78-year-old Victorian man has become the oldest person to have his car impounded under the new hoon laws.

The driver was stopped after travelling at speeds of up to 170km/h in a 100km/h zone, allegedly in pursuit of a Nissan Skyline driven by a 36-year-old man – not a P-plater in sight.

When police questioned the man, he justified his actions by explaining he was a skilled driver that had raced cars in the past.

“It is disappointing to see a senior member of our community being so irresponsible – what example does this set for younger drivers?” Acting Sergeant Carlo Visser said.

Previously, the oldest driver to have his car impounded was a 64-year-old Melbourne man who drove his Porsche at 110km/h in a 60km/h zone.

Police in Victoria alone have already impounded 42 vehicles under the new hoon laws since the start of the New Year.

Source: News.com.au

MisterTwo

According to News.com.au he old guy was driving a Nissan Pulsar. It would take a lot to get that up to 170kph so he must have been over the 100kph limit for a long time before the police nabbed him.
Sumodog

Unless it was Pulsar GTI-R
Mick

It is not age but attitudes that lead to speeding.

I think that is quite clear by the number of people male and female of different ages and race that get caught.

Attitudes are formed early, and are hard to break so parents, be stern with your children on matters of common sense such as speeding and drink driving.
http://www.ausringers.com Liam

@MisterTwo, oh I dunno, I believe the 2.0 N14 SSS was fairly capable of reaching that speed quite comfortably.
Mark Greenburg

LOL – that car he’s sitting in would have no chance of reaching 170 km/h … it’s a 1950s car!
Simonsez

The old geezer in the file photo would have to be in his 90′s.Wonder if he realised the many dodgy uses his image would be put to when he posed for this happy snap?
summerschool

my 78-year-old fren was driving a Nissan Patrol when he was caught 20Km/h above the legal speed limit on his way in to Berry. his license suspended when he was caught again on the way out of Berry.

folks beware of speed cameras when u enter exit Berry, NSW.

OutBack Wanderers

On both sides of Berry the speed limit is 80kph, well sign posted, even has two signs stating 80kph Ahead

If your friend is too stupid to slow down, then whose fault is that??

If ppl cannot read signs, what are they doing driving on our roads??

Why should anyone beware of speed cameras, they are in a fixed spot with warning signs, I guess stupid is as stupid does.

I travel once a month for last 20 yrs on Princess Hwy to Pambula and if you think you can beat the fixed speed cameras, by all means, please speed up, $100 bucks says you won’t beat them.

Daytona

Is it bad to think this is funny? I laughed my arse off. Little old man racing a Skyline..I would like to see that youtube clip!
Trent

Ohhhh get stuffed that a pulsar, or a skyline for that matter could ever get to 170km’s. My sicko VK V8 doesnt go that fast, and its a V8!! Does max dowies in the gravel and everything. No way a 4 banger japo car could do it mate. No way. I race these idiots all the time, drop the clutch at the lights, bumm buuum BUUUUUUUUM, poppin it through the gears mate, takin off like a sicko mate, leave these ricers in the dust mate, its like there not even tryin. V8′s are supercar performance, Pulsar / Skylines, hahaha yer righto mate, righto!
Fred

Trent… you have to be taking the piss! Or are you really that stupid?
Daytona I agree, its not bad to think that its funny, well because it is! A 78-year old racing a Skyline at 170ks is damn funny!
Im not a P-Plater but this just goes to show old drivers speed just as bad as younger P-Plate ones that get stereotyped into all being testosterone driven dangerous hoons.
Good on you old man, and im sure in the 30s you were a race car driver… but wake up its 2009 now and time for your pills!
Trent

Fred, why are you saying that mate? Dont you agree? A you a ricer too?!?!?! Dont say its true mate!
topdog

I can belive that my friend has an old 2.0 pulser and the bloody thing flys much quiker than most 6s around
Trent

Topdog, ohhh nah nah nah mate. If you went in a pulsar that was fast, the guy would have put a V8 in it. People do conversions all the time to get rid of crappy little 4 cyl engines (fake motors i call em! they are so slow, and they arnt even V8′s). The only way to make a fast car is to go for a V8 mate, fastest cars in the world are always V8′s. Plus the shielas dig a V8, you just a cruizin, then you get a choosin is what I say, they just hang off ya! Specially if your doin max dowies in the gravel, they love it! No 4 cylinder car could do that. Cheers mate.
AWD R33

Rumor has it that the Pulsar was indeed a GTiR that pumps out 300kW atw!!! According to yahoo i7, the 2 cars were participating in a Nissan Datsun owners club cruise.
Trent

AWD R33 – hahah a 4 cyl pumping out 300kw, with All The Win.. your dreaming mate, only a V8 could put out that much power, like the HSV’s we can all only dream about. Even when those jap cars have turbos (which are just cheating) they dont put out much power, plus they have no tork. Thats why even my VK V8 can smoke any of these little ricer cars like these 4 cyl skyline “gtr’s” that have a go at my car. They are so slow, its like they are not even trying, meanwhile im poppin it through the gear, bumm buum boooorm! Trent’s VK V8 hammer’s like theres no tommorow mate! You just wouldnt feel like a man in one of those little ricers, and the chicks would laugh at you everywhere you went mate.
Fred

Trent mate, you should stop and get some lamb on the way to upgrading your turbo! Dont worry about the V8 bro you can get a full sick turbo cheap and run 45 pounds and get maximum boost!
Dont forget to get the blow off valve hooked up to make that sick noise that all the other full sick turbo cars make!
Trent

Fred no way mate, I hate turbo’s, it power for cheats, and even then it only add stuff all power, and no tork. We all know only a real aussie V8 gives genuine aussie performance. Those silly sounding turbos are for girls mate! They sound like a sneezing girl!
Jester

I feel like I am the one defending the speeding drivers all the time, but they are starting to shyte me on the city streets, sometimes it seems I’m the only one obeying the speed limits. Anyways. I almost got him by one brainiac today, so hence I don’t defend the idiots speeding in city streets, but country roads, don’t start me with speed laws and country roads.

Bottom line – this dude is 78 years old, so for fark sake cops, if he isn’t a good driver don’t you think he would have been capput by now. Seriously.

PS: Mate’s, we are not Monaco or Andorra, we are the least populated country in the world. FFS…………..but I guess country and traffic cops need jobs too ))
MisterTwo

I stand corrected on the Pulsar if it was in fact a GTi-R. Those things go like the clappers. The news website was not specific.
Babs

Trent… you have got to be kidding. That’s got to be the most narrow-minded attitude I’ve seen in a long time. The world is not all about v8s.

An N16 pulsar is more than capable of reaching 170km/h – out of the factory – no mods – no turbo – no sick rims or woofers.

If your fully sick VK can’t do that, maybe you should try extractors, or a shaker, or buy a decent car – your’s has issues.

Btw, i drive a v8 too- but thats doesn’t mean i hate everything else.
Babs

This story was just shown on TodayTonight, it looked like a GTi-R.
http://skyline The Salesman

I wonder if it is possible the old guy did not even know how fast he was going.
If not i am hugely disappointed, this guy has a death wish and he might take someone else out with him. This should be enough to ban him from driving.
Wheelnut

The cops better be careful – because I just herad on the news that this old codger owns Australias largest collection of Military vehicles which includes Armoured Personnel Carriers; All Terain Vehciles and of course Tanks
Jester

Yeahhhhhhhh, imagine him speeding down Parliament St in one of his tanks, doping 41 in a 40. Massive trouble up ahead hahaha.
Dadd

Would those tanks include a VK V8 by any chance ?
Cupid Stunt

Trent – you sound like a first class knob. Theres many a 4 cyl car that could
equal a V8. Watch TGUK penultimate episode that has a history of BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) in the seventies (1970′s) folk here used mustangs and falcon in an attempt to win races with big power V8′s the little 1.6 and 2.0 OHC engines couldn’t match them ion the straight but beat them in the corners and won more races.
Go have some humble pie dude…and I’m not a ricer.
CapnCrunch

What ever happened to moderating these comments?

ANyawy, would be interested to see the no doubt strong positive correlation between the number of cars seized and the decline in deaths on Victorian roads.
Fasthonda

@TRENT

You couldn’t reach 170km/h in you VK because (a)It simply can’t-engine is weak (b)it would start to fall apart.(c) the handling would be boat like,not to mention the floaty sensation of your car on the road.
Just leave it to the Japanese 4 bangers to reach high speeds and crash!
You should take comfort in the fact you’re less likely to quickly reach high speeds in that speed challenged, “fully sik” VK.
http://www.AUSringers.com Liam

Luckly Trent isn’t rich enough for a VL Commo. With its Nissan turbo powered engine it would obviously be too slow for him, haha.
B///M3-Power

Trent, you have got to be the most retarded bogan known to man kind! Your ‘fully sick’ bogan-mobile VK V8 barely pumps out 100kW when it was new, and now it’s may not even be half that. Even a 4-cylinder Suzuki would tear you a new a_.hole in any type of race!

By the way it’s “Torque” and NOT “tork”!!! Do us all a favour and stay off the grass!
Wheelnut

Fasthonda Trent couldn’t reach 170Km/h in his VK because going from what I remember from his last update he was able to buy his fully-schick pryden joy with the chrissie bonus he got from his Bro K-Rudd.

However; when he was driving it he got pulled over by the fuzz who found several things on it which made his chariot unroadworthy He was pi–ed that he had to spend the rest of his not so hard earned to fix it.
Not to mention the fact that he was unable to do do-eys outside punchie station and out run AWD Nissan GT-Rs

Trent; How are things going ATM with your “wannabe Clubbie”
Kirium

I can’t believe there’s still people out there that haven’t heard of Trent from punchy. Youtube it. Not that this guy is actually Trent, but still, it adds a bit of levity to what would be an otherwise dull stream of comments.
David

As irresponsible as it is a 78 year old punting a red pulsar gti-r at 170km/h is priceless. this blokes a legend in my books.
Ivan

That old man must have been a legend in his time. I wish I would still be that wild when I’m old.
MisterTwo

You have to be careful with these old guys. The first time I ever travelled at 100mph (162kph) was with my grandad in his Jag.

OutBack Wanderers

My first 100 mph was at Orimbah on old Pacific Hwy on a Triumph 750 Bonnieville, man o man looking at the road at that speed is a rush, lol lol

Devil’s Advocate

That is exactly what I was thinking Kirium. I was going to ask if he was the famous Trent from Punchbowl. That would have explained a lot! Obviously Trent knows stuff all about engines/cars because if he did, he would know that a turbo improves torque more than it improves power. Not to mention that it gives you that higher torque lower down the rev range in most factory installations. BTW Trent, how do you feel now that there are no longer any “real Aussie V8s”? There hasn’t been a V8 engine made in Australia for some time. It is either Trent doesn’t have a clue or is someone who is bored and decided to play on the stigma of the famous ‘Trent from Punchbowl’.
Trent

Trent is alright hay.. Im the real trent from punchy hay. OK then maybe you guys know more about cars than me but I will always go for V8 grunt mates! Chicks dig it hay, there like, Hay Trent, do us a few dowies, and im like ooohh yer birds, check it out hay. And there just like yer yer yer Trent, we love the cok. V8′s are sick down at punchy station hay.
STIG

ROFL! Good on ya grandpa!