[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Peter Kovacs]

Regular Reg currently. I haven't been able to locate the HV parameters yet. It 
wasn't easily locatable on the DMV site. I was looking then 'life' happened. You 
you have info on it?
 
Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx




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From: Pantdino <pantdino at aol.com>
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; MACHWIL at aol.com; peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net; 
detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 3:16:53 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.


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



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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.


  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  
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