California bill: exempt pre-1981 from smog testing
04-01-12, 01:18 PM
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California bill: exempt pre-1981 from smog testing
http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2012...-smog-testing/
I can only hope this passes.
I can only hope this passes.
Car nuts in states which are not California may envy our perpetual sunshine and plentiful kyuusha stocks, but when it comes to our emissions laws they just point and laugh. Most states have a rolling cutoff for cars of a certain age that exempt them from smog testing, but the Republic of California has frozen that number at 1976.
That means all vehicles that year or newer must pass Cali’s notoriously picky tailpipe sniffers to be street legal, dooming many older, poorly maintained Japanese cars to the scrapheap. Thankfully, a bill has been introduced into the state senate that, if passed, will move the cutoff forward to 1981.
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Contact All Members of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee (Contact Info Below) Immediately To Request Their Support for S.B. 1224
S.B. 1224 recognizes the minimal impact of pre-1981 vehicles on emissions and air quality.
S.B. 1224 acknowledges that pre-1981 vehicles still constitute a minuscule portion of the overall vehicle population and are a poor source from which to look for emissions reduction.
S.B. 1224 endorses the fact that pre-1981 vehicles are overwhelmingly well-maintained and infrequently driven (a fraction of the miles each year as a new vehicle).
For years, legislators, regulators and stationary source polluters have felt the heat from failed efforts to meet air quality goals and have looked to older cars as a convenient scapegoat, using false data and inflated annual mileage assumptions to further their case. S.B. 1224 helps validate the truth. The old car hobby should not continue to carry the burden of past mistakes!
That means all vehicles that year or newer must pass Cali’s notoriously picky tailpipe sniffers to be street legal, dooming many older, poorly maintained Japanese cars to the scrapheap. Thankfully, a bill has been introduced into the state senate that, if passed, will move the cutoff forward to 1981.
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Contact All Members of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee (Contact Info Below) Immediately To Request Their Support for S.B. 1224
S.B. 1224 recognizes the minimal impact of pre-1981 vehicles on emissions and air quality.
S.B. 1224 acknowledges that pre-1981 vehicles still constitute a minuscule portion of the overall vehicle population and are a poor source from which to look for emissions reduction.
S.B. 1224 endorses the fact that pre-1981 vehicles are overwhelmingly well-maintained and infrequently driven (a fraction of the miles each year as a new vehicle).
For years, legislators, regulators and stationary source polluters have felt the heat from failed efforts to meet air quality goals and have looked to older cars as a convenient scapegoat, using false data and inflated annual mileage assumptions to further their case. S.B. 1224 helps validate the truth. The old car hobby should not continue to carry the burden of past mistakes!
guess i'll be calling/writing my local rep to try and get this passed.
As many say, emissions from cars of this vintage are so small. Blocking older car owners is 
Most people who hang onto these cars in the first place tend to get them running nicely anyhow.
04-02-12, 01:34 AM
#7
no, skylines are still not federally legal aside from R33s that are properly complianced (which nobody's doing right now). google this, this isn't the place. You can import cars >25 years old into the country legally w/o meeting emissions/crash compliance, and in california you can register any of those vehicles that are both imported legally AND older than 1975.
that's easy, charge a slightly higher reg fee. they actually don't make any money off of not having the cars on the road....
that's easy, charge a slightly higher reg fee. they actually don't make any money off of not having the cars on the road....
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04-02-12, 12:05 PM
#8
The registration fee for mine including license fee up till '07 was $56. '08 it went up $1 and in '09 till now, it is $77. CA dinging the vintage car owners is a very small segment to generate revenue from. Not having to deal with smog check fees, I'd apply that to the registration.
04-02-12, 11:04 PM
#9
no, skylines are still not federally legal aside from R33s that are properly complianced (which nobody's doing right now). google this, this isn't the place. You can import cars >25 years old into the country legally w/o meeting emissions/crash compliance, and in california you can register any of those vehicles that are both imported legally AND older than 1975.
that's easy, charge a slightly higher reg fee. they actually don't make any money off of not having the cars on the road....
that's easy, charge a slightly higher reg fee. they actually don't make any money off of not having the cars on the road....
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