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When I left California I was driving a ‘67 ford galaxy which, being over 25 years old at the time, wasn’t required to be smogged anymore and was fully surprised

When I left California I was driving a ‘67 ford galaxy which, being over 25 years old at the time, wasn’t required to be smogged anymore and was fully surprised when they made me do it when I registered it in Arizona (where it is anything post-66 has to have smog). Even my motorcycle had to be smogged (which, I believe, California doesn’t require) and that thing couldn’t help but get really good gas mileage. So, fear not, a couple more years and you will be smog exempt.

hadlock 4y ago
My daily driver is a 1955 and I'm exempt from safety inspections at this point. I also have a one-time(!) $175 registration fee in my state. If you can keep up with the basic maintenance (grease certain joints every couple thousand miles, etc)the lack of regulatory oversight on these older vehicles can sometimes push them back into being more affordable than driving a 10-15 year old car. Just don't get in a wreck in them, crumple zones weren't really invented until the 90s.
Hellbanevil 4y ago
No--in CA it's 1975, or earlier. It's a rediculious law because the old cars do not put that many miles on the road. I wish it was 30 years. While I'm on my soap box; Neusome (a guy I went to high school with (Redwood, and voted most Fashionable, a liberal Marin county boy) has a bill on his desk that would do away with fees associated with Parking Tickets. As of today, he has not signed off on it. The only reason I can think of is he's getting more middle of the road for a run at the big office? These extra fees and fines are not fair to the poor. A parking ticket in SF is running $80 bucks without fines. $5-6 an hour if you find the right spot. Neusome knows this personally. He barely graduated from Redwood High School, and dropped out of college due to some nebulous learning disability. He opened some coke dens in SF, and a few Bootjack liquor stores with family money. The SF bars went up in flames because they were poorly managed. Oh yea, his cousin Brendan has a DUI that disappeared? I might write a book on this guy one day. While I seem pissed, he's better than the alternatives. If he wasn't born wealthy, he would be in the Embarcadero in SF with a needle stuck in his arm.

hadlock 4y ago

My daily driver is a 1955 and I'm exempt from safety inspections at this point. I also have a one-time(!) $175 registration fee in my state. If you can keep up with the basic maintenance (grease certain joints every couple thousand miles, etc)the lack of regulatory oversight on these older vehicles can sometimes push them back into being more affordable than driving a 10-15 year old car. Just don't get in a wreck in them, crumple zones weren't really invented until the 90s.

Hellbanevil 4y ago

No--in CA it's 1975, or earlier. It's a rediculious law because the old cars do not put that many miles on the road. I wish it was 30 years. While I'm on my soap box; Neusome (a guy I went to high school with (Redwood, and voted most Fashionable, a liberal Marin county boy) has a bill on his desk that would do away with fees associated with Parking Tickets. As of today, he has not signed off on it. The only reason I can think of is he's getting more middle of the road for a run at the big office? These extra fees and fines are not fair to the poor. A parking ticket in SF is running $80 bucks without fines. $5-6 an hour if you find the right spot. Neusome knows this personally. He barely graduated from Redwood High School, and dropped out of college due to some nebulous learning disability. He opened some coke dens in SF, and a few Bootjack liquor stores with family money. The SF bars went up in flames because they were poorly managed. Oh yea, his cousin Brendan has a DUI that disappeared? I might write a book on this guy one day. While I seem pissed, he's better than the alternatives. If he wasn't born wealthy, he would be in the Embarcadero in SF with a needle stuck in his arm.