My father and I used to take tons of pictures and tape a few car shows. We used those little handy cams that took mini dv tapes so we always had video and pictures. I wish i remembered where some of them were, but from the huge regular VHS cameras to the Mini DV to the digital stuff we always had equipment lying around.
One day i was involved in an accident. Lucky for me there were witnesses and video from the building that i was not at fault, but the next day I thought what if there were not witness, what if they leave, or what if I am a victim of a set up.
I had a compact point and shoot camera for shows so the very next time i got in the car i literately duct taped it to my dash and ordered a dash mounted tripod. I then used it for a few weeks, but it was a huge hassle so i was in a bit of a rush to replace it with something a little more convent and ended up with a DVR-027 knock off that was horrible. No sound horrible day and night time picture.
I was trying to find information on what i should replace it with when i found this site, and the rest is history.
After all the headache and hassle I had dealt with between the accident and the knock off camera it is one of the reasons I am a huge supporter of this place and am doing things like making the camera noticeable at car shows, getting cards printed up, trying to get word out there.
People need to protect them selves when they drive every day and share the roads with people like the ones you see in various YouTube videos and on the news, and then there are the guys who buy 50-60 thousand dollar Corvettes and put another 20 grand in them to make them go faster. If someone sees you rolling around in mobile 80 thousand dollars some people see the dollar signs.
I've seen the kind of money people put into cars and i have done it myself, and to have that all taken away because someone else is careless is horrible and a nightmare.
Ask the guy who just had his ZL1 totaled by a dealer.
Saw it on RFD too.
