[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Art Stephens]

No, they didn't even look at my car since it was already registered. If you go PNO, I think you will have to have the DMV do a safety inspection of the vehicle including lights and maybe mirrors and stuff like that? I would guess that they don't even look under the hood? Even if you went the PNO route with the safety inspection, I can't imagine them requiring the vehicle to be stock.

Art



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Kovacs 
  To: Art Stephens ; Pantdino ; MikeLDrew at aol.com ; MACHWIL at aol.com ; detomaso at realbig.com 
  Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.


  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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