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A crowd gathers to watch and photograph a car doing a burnout Saturday night on Baltimore Avenue. Spectators filled the streets and sidewalks to watch and yell encouragement to drivers.
Tuner cars greeted by strict law enforcement Ticket totals up, population down as modified car crowd attempts to dominate Coastal Highway
By Stewart Dobson Editor/Publisher (Oct. 5, 2018) The difference between Atlantic City, New Jersey and Ocean City last weekend was the Jersey shore got a well-behaved H2O International car show and Ocean City got the people who forced it to flee to that venue. From last Thursday to Sunday, Ocean City was flooded with the modified small cars that never were part of H2Oi in the 19 years the event was staged locally, but showed up at the
same time and gave it a big black eye because of their owners’ rowdy and dangerous behavior. In a social media-inspired protest designed, ostensibly, to defy Ocean City’s deployment last year of the unwelcome mat, the H2O pretenders brought more of the same this year, but were met by the strongest law enforcement effort yet to muzzle the anticipated bad conduct. Police, aided by the new Special Event Zone law that lowered the speed limit to 30 mph and raised fines for violators, set a five-year record in tickets written over the four-day weekend, while warnings were down significantly. The Ocean City Police Department, the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, the MarySee SPECIAL Page 68
Little cars make big noises, just because they can — with help
By Rachel Ravina Staff Writer (Oct. 5, 2018) Coastal Highway and the surrounding roads erupted over the weekend, as imported car aficionados descended on Ocean City not just to show off their rides, but also to demonstrate how loud and annoying they can be. Those ear-shattering poppity-pop-bangs exploding
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from the exhaust pipes of many of the vehicles were exactly what they sounded like: backfires, but these were purposely created, and otherwise pointless, backfires produced via auto technology normally applied to racing. Robert Perry, of Bridge Auto Repair, said car enthusiasts, like the ones who invaded Ocean City, had to “modify them to be able to do it.” It’s called “two stepping,” which involves tuning the engine a different way through See MODULE Page 71
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