Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nmtvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!unm-cvax!nmtvax!knight 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 Article-I.D.: nmtvax.343 Posted: Fri Mar 8 01:00:28 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 07:13:22 EST References: <> Reply-To: knight@nmtvax.UUCP (Bob Knight) Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro Lines: 21 Summary: 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