> Reply-To: "TeriAnn Wakeman" <twakeman@apple.com>
>
> There is one loophole in California's SMOG regs no one has yet mentioned.
>
> Here you are required to have the car SMOGed every other year. If the car is
> liscensed and on the road during a year it does not need to be SMOGed, taken
>off
> the road for the year it does need to be SMOGed, it can be licensed the
> following year without needing a SMOG test. You can drive a car every other
> year in California without ever having the car SMOG tested. The division,
>last
> time I looked, is by even and odd last numbers of the license plate number.
>
> Sooooo One posibility is to have two cars, one with even plate one with an
>odd
> numbered plate with registrations due at about the same time. Drive one for
>a
> year while working on the other then switch at the end of the license year.
> Perfectly legal.
>
> snip
>
> Soooooo Just buy up a pair of very cheap unsnogable cars, get the right
>plates
> on them & register them at the same time. You can drive your MGB V8 one year
> and your TR6 V8 the other year
or take the VIN# off a parts car and re-register the same car. Every year you
swap the license plate and VIN plate.
- -Mark "No officer that was my other White MG" Jurras
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