Reply to "Bad news in Calif for Classic cars"

There's nothing wrong with clean air. I like breathing it.

The negative part is when the environmental groups don't get their way, they find a back door to get around any legislature that was hammered out in good will in a public forum. Representative government be damned, the environmental lobby know whats best for all of us. Yes that is very wrong, but it happens several times a year in states throughout the US, not just California. Its not just clean air that is an issue, access to open public land is constantly under attack too. Save the trees from the people, not for the people.

No matter what happens ... we will cope. The entire state of California does not do smog testing now, only those communities in the bay area and greater southern California, like Carlsbad and Ventura. So where is your car registered? Maybe you need a a postal mail box in Ridgecrest so your car can be registered there. That's a solution a lot of owners use now so they can hot rod newer cars. There will always be smog station operators who cooperate with hot rodders, you just gotta ask around to find them. Its best if you "know somebody" if you get my drift. There's a guy here in Ventura who kinda forgets to do the visual inspection so long as your car passes the tail pipe test. And getting an engine to pass the tailpipe test isn't that hard, just need lean calibrated carburetors and cams with 60 degrees or less overlap.

Hang onto to your Autolite carbs, EGR plates & Ford air cleaners, if the testing becomes a reality the value of those things will escalate.