Man keeps removing parts from his car to see how many it'll take for the police to get him to stop

This guy drove a Peugeot across Europe and gradually removed parts from the car for an experiment.

The idea was to keep on going until the police had something to say about it.

Which they did.

But, surprisingly, he had to go to extreme lengths to actually make them notice.

This car was hardly recognizable

The guy behind the RETALI8 YouTube channel began stripping down a Peugeot 107 and kept doing it during a road trip across Europe.

The idea involved systematically stripping it of parts to see how far he and his team could get before the vehicle was seized by authorities.

Amazingly, getting the police to notice wasn’t easy.

They started by removing the rear bumper, fuel cap cover, and roof lining to reduce weight.

They then removed the car’s doors.

“There’s no way we’re going to make it to Monaco without getting stopped,” he said.

Well, he was right.

While this finally had an effect in Monaco – where they were banned and escorted out – they were incredibly allowed to continue once they crossed into Spain.

As they entered the small landlocked Principality of Andorra, the team also cut off the roof and finished stripping the front end.

And this, finally, had an effect: they were told they had to continue their journey on foot.

The definition of road legal is surprisingly loose

The definition of road legal is surprisingly vague.

In theory, all exterior lights must be functional, and the windshield must be free of major obstructions.

In practice, there are road cars with no windshield, and those are still street legal.

And there’s more.

For example, seatbelts, ABS, and airbags are mandatory.

But again, some vintage classics don’t have those and, in general, they can still be driven.

That’s because, in almost all European countries, cars are legally bound only by the safety regulations that existed the year they were manufactured.

It all revolves around the concept of ‘structural integrity’.

If you take a car and cut off its roof, the structural integrity is compromised.

However, convertibles are designed from the factory to be roofless, and so the structural integrity is not compromised.

In a way, it sort of makes sense.