Absolutely true. It was 1978, when I moved back to Texas, that you could still set an open can of beer (or an open bottle of bourbon, if you were so inclined) between your legs as you drove. And if you got stopped for speeding (which wasn’t very likely) the cop wouldn’t say a thing about the booze.
Ah, those were the days, as JD Allen (The Mouth of the Brazos) remembers.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 