{"id":433,"date":"2004-12-30T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T14:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/12\/pimpin_rides_aint_easy_or_legal_either\/"},"modified":"2004-12-30T10:35:27","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T14:35:27","slug":"pimpin_rides_aint_easy_or_legal_either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/30\/pimpin_rides_aint_easy_or_legal_either\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimpin&#8217; Rides Ain&#8217;t Easy (or Legal) Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastcustoms.com\/Showroom\/viewgallery.php?number=8&amp;car=300\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/images\/DSC_0063.jpg?w=750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Looks like the crew from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastcustoms.com\/Home\/Pages\/index.htm\">West Coast Customs<\/a> (of &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastcustoms.com\/Pimp_My_Ride\/index.htm\">Pimp My Ride<\/a>&#8216; fame) got themselves in a little bit of trouble with the law.  They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/30\/business\/media\/30auto.html?oref=login&amp;th\">got fined for replacing an airbag with a video monitor<\/a>.  The monitors in the car thing is really getting out of control.  <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of pimpin&#8217;&#8230; Peep the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastcustoms.com\/Showroom\/viewgallery.php?number=3&amp;car=300\">chop top 300C<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the crew from West Coast Customs (of &#8216;Pimp My Ride&#8216; fame) got themselves in a little bit of trouble with the law. They got fined for replacing an airbag with a video monitor. The monitors in the car thing is really getting out of control. Speaking of pimpin&#8217;&#8230; Peep the chop top 300C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/08\/kobes_street_cred\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":0},"title":"Kobe&#8217;s Street Cred","date":"July 8, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"In the aftermath of Kobe Bryant's arrest, all kinds of conspiracy theories are floating around. The one getting the most publicity is that this whole incident was staged to give Kobe more street credibility. Here are two good articles which put that theory to the test: Sneaker Pimpin? 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