[Healeys] get a load of this one..

Mon Feb 15 06:15:40 MST 2016

Wow--how lucky finding a car list that talks cars/politics/religion/race/who is an idiot and who is not/maybe a little profanity---on and on.  As difficult as it is to find a source for this type of stuff in todays world, maybe I should join the Spridget list.

---- "rrengineer.mike" <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote: 

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Sorry. Used to the Spridgets list where we can say anything we want.Mike

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From: Tom Felts <tomfelts at windstream.net> 
Date: 2/14/2016  5:25 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net> 
Cc: healeys <Healeys at autox.team.net> 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] get a load of this one.. 

I'm going to assume that maybe someone else has said this, but to me these kinds of political BS comments has no place on this list.  
Tom
---- Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote: 

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I moved here in 1971. It was a very different place back then.  Not as crowded and not as regulated in all aspects of life.  These days you can't keep up with all the nanny state laws being passed every year.  You can be a law abiding citizen one day and a potential felon the next.  Every year brings more regulations and control over almost everything you do.  Let's not get started on the gun control issue.  Now they can take all your firearms with no crime having been committed. All someone has to do is convince a judge you MIGHT do something to yourself or someone else.  If that is not the thought police, I don't know what is.  Yes, you don't have to smog a car made before 1975, but every year some lame brain democrat will introduce a bill to make ALL cars have to undergo smog either retro actively or be destroyed even though they do not contribute even 1 percent of the smog to California.  That bimbo from the San Francisco are Fran Pavley tried to get all motorcycles have to undergo smog tests retroactively back many years over a certain engine size.  Never mind motorcycles are not ridden as much or as often as automobiles or are a mall percentage of all vehicles on the road.  Luckily it was defeated.  It all started going down hill when the legislature in California went for being is session for six months out of the year to year round.  Yes Bob I do feel free to leave this quagmire of rules and control of personal liberties. Every one of my hobbies I will pursue when I retire is now being controlled by either the state of California or as in my radio control hobby the federal government being the FAA in particular.  The FAA wants to treat my 7 pound model airplane that does not fly out of my sight or place anyone or anything in danger like all aircraft and make me be licensed to fly it. of course the license is not free.  You have to pay for the government to control you.  I retire from the railroad at the end of the year and am seriously eyeing Arizona as a retirement destination.  At least there I don't worry about  an new firearm law being passed every 5 minutes.Mike MacLean  

    On Friday, February 12, 2016 12:52 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

 There is no 'tax' on installing K&N filters in California, and I've never seen any 'sticker' on the filters.  There is a sticker that comes with K&Ns--I bought one for my '96 Ranger many years ago--that you affix in a visible location in the engine bay that attests that the filter is in compliance with CARB rules.  We've had the truck smogged 8-9 times since then, with no issues.  See:
http://www.knfilters.com/streetlegal.htm

But, why let facts get in the way of California-bashing?  And, if 'Kalifornia' is so rotten, why did you move here (you aren't required to smog an out-of-state vehicle unless you are attempting to register it here; again, more of them pesky, fun-spoiling facts). And, none of our Healeys require smog testing in 'Kalifornia' (thanks Pete Wilson), and there are no mandatory, arbitrary 'safety' or 'roadworthy' inspections.
Feel free to leave California at any time.
Regards,
Bob

I had a K & N air filter on my German car when I took it from KY to Kalifornia. It did not have the Kalifornia special tax paid sticker on it so I was failed at the smog test.Rather than spend $350 to get the same thing with a sticker on it, I reinstalled the OEM system and passed no issue. I asked to be retested and the results were worse than with the K & N. Interesting what a little Kalifornia EPA mandated sticker can do: support the politicians ?

Regards,Richard C

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