[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Peter Kovacs]

and would it have to be 'original' to do that?
 
Peter Kovacs
209 345-6708 
209 436-2000 fx




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From: Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>
To: Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net>; Pantdino <pantdino at aol.com>; 
MikeLDrew at aol.com; MACHWIL at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, April 28, 2011 4:46:05 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

I remember when I went in to register my Pantera as a historical vehicle, I was 
thinking to myself how do they know if it is or not? It seemed to me I might 
have been able to register a 1972 bug as a historical vehicle? My understanding 
was that the car was supposed to have historical significance/small production 
numbers? I don't remember seeing any clear definition as to what a historical 
vehicle was. So, you might be able to register any pre 1976 vehicle as historic?

Art


----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Kovacs" <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pantdino" <pantdino at aol.com>; <MikeLDrew at aol.com>; <MACHWIL at aol.com>; 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.


> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -----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.
> 
> 
>  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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