[DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer

[Guido deTomaso]

Seems like ax handles and pitchforks time, but it's been this way for 30 years 
now, we've all gone so soft.

However this is why I wanted to know how in the world did the V8 Vega guy Kovacs 
dodge the bullet in court ?

Last I don't believe it's going to always be in one spot, since this is an 
international forum I didn't mention it was at Union and 85 toward Cambrian 
plaza on Union.

GD

 



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From: richard bosch <theemonkey at yahoo.com>
To: guido_detomaso at prodigy.net; detomaso at poca.com
Sent: Wed, March 13, 2013 2:19:11 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer


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