[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Peter Kovacs]

Yep...and the functional PCV would have been seen if he were standing on the 
passenger side of the car instead of the drivers side. 

Too late now.

Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx




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From: "MikeLDrew at aol.com" <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: MACHWIL at aol.com; peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 2:35:51 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.


In a message dated 4/28/11 11 26 46, MACHWIL at aol.com writes:



I think you are in California. If that is correct your Vega was smog exempt
at the time the ticket was issued. That smog law changed years ago and I
believe  it extends down to cars built before Dec. 31, 1975. I know my '73
Pantera is  exempt.


Wrongo, Bud!

Your Pantera is exempt from periodic inspection.  That is not the same as being 
exempt from meeting the requirements that were in place on the day it was sold.  
At any time, a cop with an attitude can write you a ticket for failing to pass 
his arbitrary visual inspection, and then you are forced into Referee Hell where 
you have to demonstrate to a bureaucrat that your car does, in fact, possess all 
the required pollution control equipment that was installed on the day it was 
first sold.

That's the situation Peter is in now.

The Pantera's smog requirements were fairly basic; a functioning PCV system is 
pretty much all that was there (i.e. no smog pumps, air injection systems 
etc.).  But if you are running open breathers on your valve covers, you are 
failing, and a cop can legitimately write you a ticket.

Just another good reason to keep a functional PCV system in place....

Mike