Retarded.

 

I don't like it.

I'm all for tree hugging, cleaner air and whatnot, but that is moderated by my car guy ness. Really, how many 30 year-old cars are there out there polluting California? I can't imagine too many.

Rather than have some catch-all 30 year-old car legislation which supposedly plans for the future, it would be simple enough to phase this in once cars with some kind of emissions controls are getting to be that age.

If you look at pre-emissions-regs cars, they have no emissions equipment. There's no way you could get them to pass a sniffer test without at the very least retrofitting them with cats and in most cases converting them to electronic fuel injection.

 

I was looking forward to having my '75 280 smog exempt, but guess not anymore. I usually get kissed before I get f*cked. The CA DMV should create a registration category for collector cars and make them smog exempt. If you take your 'ol classic to car shows and drive it less than 1k miles per year it really isn't making an impact significant enough to be concerned with.

 

time to buy some real estate in smog exempt areas like mammoth h:

 

:werd:

Damn tree huggers ruining all our fun.

:down:

 

Except my E30 just past 260k this week and passed the last smog test with flying colors OG motor also

 

You will be exempt, cars 1975 or older will be exempt. I however am pretty fvcking pissed at that kunt Sally Lieber, and AHnold. This law will not do what they say it will, commercial vehicles are still exempt, so NAFTA haulers and big rigs have no smog requirements. Iguess they have a stronger lobby than the colector car industry. It is supposed to have a provision for cars registered as "collector" vehicles and 35 years old becoming exempt from visual inspection, but still subject to the sniff test. My bug has fuel injection and no catalytic convertor. Ironically, a 1975 is exempt, and it has exactly the same setup that my '79 has, arbitrary BS :rant:

 

i run across so many shredded tires on the fwy

 

What a joke! What's next? No racing events in CA, because race cars aren't emission controlled? That would make a bigger impact, than wiping out collector cars.

 

sweet, no emissions where i live.

but in all honesty, no one'll really care after a while.

except more older timers looking for smog hook ups