Mister Oldskool's Purple Cadillac Proves Unsuccesful As Inconspicuous Getaway Vehicle

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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/02/Mr_Oldskool_Purple_Caddy.jpg" width="340" height="240" /It goes without saying that we thoroughly approve of a late-80s Sedan DeVille with the full-on pimp treatment. However, when John Law suspends your license, you emdon't/em try to drive said car from the courthouse./p pDavid B. "Mister Oldskool" Johnson rolled up to the Markham, Illinois, Courthouse in his a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged 1988 CADILLAC SEDAN DEVILLE" title="Click here to read more posts tagged 1988 CADILLAC SEDAN DEVILLE" href="http://jalopnik.com/tag/1988-cadillac-sedan-deville/"1988 Cadillac Sedan DeVille/a, and every detail was in place, from the purple fedora and full-length fur coat to the "PIMP PLAZA" plaque on the dash. Well, every detail save one emreally important/em one: his driver's license. You see, the reason for the courthouse visit was the little matter of 13 charges of driving on a suspended license, and the judge issued a 10-day jail sentence beginning next week… with stern orders not to drive until then. So, Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Frank Czerwinski figured he had the proverbial fish-in-a-barrel bust when Mister Oldskool headed out to his ride, dusted it off with a purple feather duster, and drove off. Straight to jail, and we can only hope the tow truck driver was nice to that Cadillac.br /br / [a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1410113,CST-NWS-whydrive03.article"Chicago Sun-Times/a, thanks to a href="http://jalopnik.com/396320/super+rare-dodge-sweptside-bides-its-time-in-arizona-junkyard"57Sweptside/a for the tip]/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9HvAvTNSvXPCj226vxwsQZq1eS0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/9HvAvTNSvXPCj226vxwsQZq1eS0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=QHp6qdN5"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=YP1M57ZA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=8eNXowMZ"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=8eNXowMZ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/jalopnik/full?a=hJHl5GxF"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/jalopnik/full?i=hJHl5GxF" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/jalopnik/full/~4/WYJ9Snv0WX0" height="1" width="1"/

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