Eight young drivers have lost their suped-up cars and are now facing a host of fines and impoundment fees after the group was caught racing through West Vancouver on a midnight joyride.
The West Vancouver Police were first alerted to the group shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Friday when a report was called in to the Squamish RCMP that several drivers were traveling at very high speeds southbound on the Sea-to-Sky Highway.
The Lower Mainland RCMP's Air One helicopter was already doing patrols in the area and quickly joined the West Vancouver response. Air One officers located the group of eight cars and clocked them at speeds in excess of 142 kilometres per hour in an 80-kilometre zone, according to a video released by the West Vancouver Police Department.
The police chopper tracked the speeders while WVPD patrol officers set up a successful roadblock on Highway 1 just east of Eagleridge Drive.
All eight vehicles were pulled over and towed away for immediate excessive speed impounds.
The drivers, who were also issued tickets for excessive speeding, range in age from 21 to 25. Six drivers are from Vancouver, one is from Richmond and the other is from Surrey.
Five Nissan 240SX cars with model years between 1989 and 1997 were impounded, as were a 1989 Nissan Skyline, a 1992 Toyota Mark II and a 2000 Acura Integra. All of the cars were in varying stages of high-performance modifications, according to police.