[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.
Pantdino
pantdino at aol.com
Thu Apr 28 22:02:05 EDT 2011
I'm not aware of the CA DMV ever doing any safety / mirrors inspection on any car.
I think they leave it up to the cops to bust you for no mirrors / car too low / fender falling off etc.
-----Original Message-----
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, Apr 28, 2011 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.
No, they didn't even look at my car since it was already registered. If you go
NO, I think you will have to have the DMV do a safety inspection of the vehicle
ncluding lights and maybe mirrors and stuff like that? I would guess that they
on't even look under the hood? Even if you went the PNO route with the safety
nspection, 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 ;
etomaso 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>;
ikeLDrew 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
as thinking 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>
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.
t
> wasn't easily locatable on the DMV site. I was looking then 'life' happened.
ou
> 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
he
> 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
eriodic
> 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
ou
> are running open breathers on your valve covers, you are failing, and a
op
> can legitimately write you a ticket. Just another good reason to keep a
> functional PCV system in place.... Mike
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