[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

[Pantdino]

No one looks at the car when you reg it HV. It is just a paperwork thing.







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From: Peter Kovacs <peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net>
To: Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>; Pantdino <pantdino at aol.com>; MikeLDrew at aol.com; MACHWIL at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:03 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.


and would it have to be 'original' to do that?

eter Kovacs
09 345-6708 
09 436-2000 fx


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ent: Thu, April 28, 2011 4:46:05 PM
ubject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.
I remember when I went in to register my Pantera as a historical vehicle, I was 
hinking to myself how do they know if it is or not? It seemed to me I might 
ave been able to register a 1972 bug as a historical vehicle? My understanding 
as that the car was supposed to have historical significance/small production 
umbers? I don't remember seeing any clear definition as to what a historical 
ehicle 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>
o: "Pantdino" <pantdino at aol.com>; <MikeLDrew at aol.com>; <MACHWIL at aol.com>; 
detomaso at realbig.com>
ent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:33 PM
ubject: 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
 
 
 
 
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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
 
 
 
 -----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 
o
 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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