[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Pantdino]

Is the car registered as an Historic Vehicle, or with regular registration?
You might try switching it to HV if it is not already and see if that gets the Man off your back

Jim Oddie





-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
To: MACHWIL at aol.com; peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 2:35 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.



n 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 
eing exempt from meeting the requirements that were in place on the day it 
as sold.   At any time, a cop with an attitude can write you a ticket for 
ailing to pass his arbitrary visual inspection, and then you are forced into 
eferee Hell where you have to demonstrate to a bureaucrat that your car 
oes, in fact, possess all the required pollution control equipment that was 
nstalled 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 
s pretty much all that was there (i.e. no smog pumps, air injection 
ystems 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
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