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From: knight@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Zippy machines in CA
Message-ID: <343@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 01:00:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 01:00:28 1985
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Reply-To: knight@nmtvax.UUCP (Bob Knight)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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As an ex-inhabitant of CA (and EXTREMELY happy to be so), I think I might
be able to answer this question.  Until recently, it was possible to 
register a car without any sort of emissions systems verification.  However,
in 1983, a law went into effect requiring emissions certification upon
reregistration, with some rather stringent requirements about how things
got tested (such requirements included specifications for the testing
equipment).

     So, before 1983, LOTS of people (myself included) went out and found
someone to sign off on their transfer of ownership on vehicles that
didn't comply to standards ("Oh, yes, there's a smog pump.  Say, where's
the belt?  Ah yes, not having a pump, you don't need a belt.")  

     So, high performance cars in CA exist simply by circumventing the
system.  Me, I think it's damned hard to find a place in CA to really
pump things up to a reasonable speed, unless you're talking the desert
areas in the Eastern part of the state.  Give me good old New Mexico
straightaways anytime, with cops that'll wave at 70.

Bob