I'm not aware of what CA is currently doing. I have my own issues with NYS DMV. I'm attempting to explain how to get the exhaust smell down to what many would consider a reasonable one, unlike what a typical Holley DP carb does at idle.
Admittedly I have to agree that in the case of lawyers actually being in effect on my side, as open minded as I may or not be, if I was sitting on a jury you would have a difficult time convincing me that a car built yesterday is a 1965 model. That's a real stretch. 
I suppose this is great for the Cobra replica guys? Someone footed a huge legal bill and lobbying effort in CA to get that one through? I wonder who paid that bill?
For me proving that the Pantera is an import, built with less then 5,000 units a year and as such is exempt from the 1973 US emission standards regardless of what Mrs.Detomaso's political influence was on her NJ Senators, is not something that I want to argue and document annually with the NYS DMV.
It may be easier to convince the chickens at feeding time not to fight over the kernels of corn? They both are at the same intellectual and commutative level yet empowered to deny everything.
"They" just don't like where my oxygen sensors are located OR EVEN that I have two on a 1973 model import vehicle that isn't supposed to have any at all? Some want to know if I am Detomaso and named the car after myself since they never heard of one and it looks like a kit car to them?