I find it odd that Colorado doesn't have any sort of safety inspection for cars/trucks/motorcycles. Coming from Maine, there was an annual inspection where they focused primarily on safety items. If your car was missing lights, body panels, had bad brakes, rust through the frame, etc, it couldn't be driven. Around here, all that matters is smog. I get that people sometimes don't have lots of money, or if they do they can choose to spend it on other things. But isn't having a hood on a car and windows required by state law?

There is a lady that lives next to me that has two different vehicles that she uses. She never has both of them at our complex, but both are in dire straights. One of her cars is a '90ish Kia Sportage that has a missing headlight, a missing window and a crescent wrench attached to a cable for opening the rear hatch. Not a set of locking pliers, just a crescent wrench that is somehow hanging onto a nut. Her other car is a relatively new Nissan Sentra, mid 2000's, with a missing hood and a headlight hanging off the front.

I like my place, but every time I walk out and see her car I want to offer to get a hood installed.