Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Well that's dumb, however my preferred situation would be to close that loophole and make the '75 cars subject to emissions testing. As long as they are only held up to the standards they had to meet when new, not current standards as that would require a lot of reengineering of old cars.
They had smog controls and standards prior to 1975, they just are not going to enforce them. It is political suicide to even give a whiff of non-PC, non-environmental thought in California. Arnold would have gotten crucified if he had vetoed 2683, though that makes me no less pissed. What this law does, is repeal the rolling exemption, but not make anyone who was exempted have to start passing the sniffer test again. They picked 1975 because they could not enact this prior to January 2005(2005-30=1975). It really has nothing to do with standards that have been put in place, they just did not want to get sued. In the 1970's they had California smog controls, and 49 state controls. MY bug for example, was originally sold in Utah, so no cat. If it would have been sold in California, it would have had to have a cat. I don't have an unleaded only sticker, or the narrow neck on the fuel filler. It is really all quite random.