Ahhhh. The beauty of a beater. I’m with ya’ brother.
I live in a nice suburb/country town, and have been pulled over by local cops several times in my old truck, always at night, on my way home from the city
They find I'm an old white guy and local resident (and a couple of them, I know their parents), they make some excuse like "your license plate light is too dim" before they let me go.
I don't mind. The town bans section 8 housing, we haven't yet had illegals dumped on us, neighbors know each other, and if you forget to lock your door at night, you'll be fine - so if our town cops profiling junk cars coming off the interstate is the price to pay, that's OK with me.
“The Beater Car’’. The “Model T’’ of transportation for the working class!