Congrats! I don't know what was the problem for you to get it sooner
but I can understand that it can be a PIA being in California. Each
time I had smog check for my Vanagons the smog check technician was
always like trying to catch a thief when inspecting the engine compartment.
Sometimes they even dug out their repair books trying to identify a
smog component as a non original equipment. Of course they never succeeded
it. And my vanagons always passed the smog check.

I once bought a BMW 2002 with a valid California registration. But I was
never able to get it registered in my own name because of the tough
California emission regulations. The 2002 had an after market carbureter
system. I had no idea what the original equipment look like and had no
idea how to restore everything back together to pass a smog check.
Visited referee stations many times with no success. Eventually I donated
it to charity and got a tax write off. I did get a taste to drive it at
80+ MPH before giving it up though. Guess what, that was probably 15 years
ago. It was my first time to reach more than 80 MPH on a car I owned.
A faded dream of owning a BMW classic.

David

--- Kim Springer <kimspringer@RCN.COM> wrote:

> It's been 3 years since my Tristar set down on California soil, and today, after a ton of work,
> (and money I might add), the pink slip was in the mail.
>
> I do have to admit that it was sort of anticlimactic.  It reminded me of getting my college
> diploma in the mail, months after my actual graduation.
>
> Anyway, that phase is done, and it's on to more complicated things like keeping it running.
>
> Kim
> '88 Tristar #7
>

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