In 1974 I moved to California for a couple of years to a small town on the East
side of Mt. Whitney. Basically go to Lone Pine and turn East to go to Death
Valley, which made a nice playground. Anyway I had a 73
Capri at that time (the car that replaced my last roadster until now, a 70 2L)
that was purchased new in Oregon. I ended up shipping the Capri back to Oregon
and selling it, and driving the Mercedes 450SL that
belonged to the guy I worked for (big tear here) instead because my car did not
have a California smog system installed.
Cars from other states must be upgraded before they can be licensed if they do
not already have the smog equipment required by California.
Tom
69 2000
Portland
FYI, I really enjoyed that Mercedes.......
Susan and Mark Miller wrote:
> "Andrew Murphy" <solex67@hotmail.com> wrote:
> <<<Subject: Re: Owning a roadster in California may become illegal
>
> It also rasies the question about those cars that had no smog equipment. The
> 68-70 cars can be fitted with smog devices if they had been removed, but my
> 67 and my 64 don't have that capability. One of the guys here in my office
> said that the DMV can make exceptions as long as the car has the original
> configuration (i.e engine and frame) and has not been upgraded. This doesn't
> help the people that did engine swaps however.
>
> If the car was legally imported to California in the 60s and has no
> capability to support smog equipment, how can it now be deemed "illegal"?
>
> I also tried calling the resource board and got double talk. These people
> either don't know or don't care. I wonder if they will feel the same way
> when I vote them out of office!
>
> Andrew Murphy
> SoCalROC>>>
>
> My car came in to Ca from Japan and had no smog equipment, as is the norm in
>Japan (at least it was then....).
>
> I registered it initially when they were much looser, and eventually took it
>to the referee station. An amazingly competent person looked it over and
>agreed that it was stock as manufactured and gave it a sticker.
>
> I agree that the test should be a maximum allowable emission regardless of
>the present equipment under the hood.
>
> Mark Miller
> 69 RHD Fairlady 2000
>
> also thinking good thoughts for Craig and his OEM pump.
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