[Healeys] Vehicle Registration in PA

[Bob Spidell]

The CHP is pretty good about stopping and ticketing overloaded or improperly
loaded vehicles on the highways (yes, of course some get away with it). I
can't recall the last time I saw a real rust bucket; CA cars tend to hold up
better than some (that's why you see 'California car' in some for-sale ads). I
did see a creampuff--I think it was a '60s-era Buick--parked in the cellphone
waiting area for SJC yesterday. I gave the driver a thumbs-up.

One thing that does concern me are the POS big rigs from Mexico. Thanks to
NAFTA, they're allowed across the border and some of them look like death
traps for all concerned.

Bob

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Payne" <JPayne at ThorCon.net>
To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net>
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:18:07 AM
Subject: RE: [Healeys] Vehicle Registration in PA




People donbt drive severely overloaded 40 year old pickups that crab down
the road, or rusted out Buick Electra 225bs in your neck of the woods?






Jonas Payne

Director of Preconstruction

Thor Construction

PH: (702) 269-2007

Fax: (702) 269-7095

Cell: (702) 358-5084





From: Bob Spidell [mailto:bspidell at comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:15 AM
To: Jonas Payne
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Vehicle Registration in PA




I see how that kind of 'loophole' would encourage that. I think that was
mitigated in CA, which had (has?) a 'cash for clunkers' program which paid, I
think, $750 for older vehicles, running or not. They offered to buy my Healey
a couple times; I wrote back that I MIGHT take $75,000. Never heard from them
again.

Generally, the only older (pre-1968) cars I see on the road are a) primo
collector cars and b) original, mostly Detroit iron driven and lovingly
maintained by VERY senior citizens.

Senior citizen=anyone older than me.

Bob