[DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer

[richard bosch]

The CHP does this more often in southern California than up here,but yes it is legal and you do not have a choice.Yes, pre 1976 vehicles still have to be able to pass smog.Pre 76 cars and trucks are only exempted from from the bi-annual smog checks.I have heard from my Socal buddies they use a Jeep Cherokee that has a road side sniffer as you pull off or on to the freeway and can tell which cars are "dirty" and pull them over for dyno verification.
Where did you see them exactly so i and others can avoid them?



Tuesday I spotted a pickup on a roadside dyno, on a four lane surface street 
near a freeway exit.? Since the men with guns making it happen were CHP, I'm 
guessing they were plucking hapless saps off the freeway and stealing first 
their time and?possibly second their vehicles.

Anyone have the skinny this, especially:

What's the legal foundation for forcing participation?? Can a driver refuse, 
both to participate or if not, refuse to allow the "officers" inside the car / 
to operate the car?

Can they force a pre '76 ( not in the current smog check ) off the road?

'Course they don't respond to home burglaries, vandalism, graffiti?anymore.

GD