Reply to "Crush your car for free - AKA CA Smog Laws"

Ha, nice reading the posts. I bet you wouldn’t find that comedy on a Ferrari chat room.

If anyone knows more official word on this business of on-the-road sniffers and what it really means if caught, that would be great. Although we are exempt from the formal testing in order to maintain our registration due to the year of our cars, I am not sure exactly what this means for us if caught with the on-the-road sniffer: (1) get it fixed, (2) crush it, or (3) have our registration revoked, in which we can keep our cars as trophies in our garage…I prefer to use it as a fancy picnic table.

This is all fine and dandy that the state will fix these cars for free. But many nice modified cars have several engine alterations, which may kick up the emissions somewhat. And who knows what happens once the government pops our deck lids. They may then require everything to be stock compliant in order to meet emissions. So keep your old rusty stock engines around, as you may need it someday.

And for all you non-CA boys, you know whatever starts in CA, spreads everywhere (maybe bikini thongs are an exception in the winter however).