[DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

Fri Apr 29 18:19:15 EDT 2011

Indiana can run actual (not re-manufactured) plates from back in the day. It
is part of the historical plate process but you register the plate for the
year of the car & it becomes permanent. Well, you still pay every year. I
think my regular plate is $22 for the year. I know, you guys in the
Netherlands just fell over.

IndyDave

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lewis [mailto:lotus0005 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:26 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.

I don't know if anyone from Texas has replied to Asa Jay, bought after 25
years, here you can get an "Antique Auto" plate.  No annual inspection. No
front plate.  I'm lazy too and did not check, but I guess no personalized
plate, and I guess #2, supposedly it is driven in parades (and to/fro), etc.
----Bill (lazy like Asa Jay) Lewis

> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:22:06 -0700
> From: asajay at asajay.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] DMV registration question for fellow Kalifornians.
> 
> In Washington (the one next to Idaho), you can get "Historic Vehicle"  
> plates for anything over 25 years old as I recall.  A nice 1968  
> Mustang parked outside on my way home has historic plates on it.  That  
> would be 40 years old plus, but I do think it's 25 years to be  
> eligible.  (I'm too lazy to check actually, but have been told my 1973  
> Pantera qualifies).
> 
> And it's a permanent registration requiring no front plate.  Bonus!
> 
> Asa Jay
> 
> Quoting Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net>:
> 
> > 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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