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Subject:Re: Old Cars and engine conversions
From:neil N
Date:Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:49:16 -0800

"remote sniffers"

??

Are you serious?  :^)

That's way too scary!

Neil.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com> wrote:
> The current CA law is vehicles 1975 and earlier are exempt from emission
>  testing.  For now at least.
>
>  But there's a catch to that too.  Now that the BAR/CARB folks are starting
>  to place those remote "sniffers" along the highway and at selected freeway
>  on-ramps (complete with a camera), time will come that any pre-76 vehicle
>  detected as polluting over whatever the sniffer will be photographed, the
>  vehicle notified that they must report with the vehicle at a "test only"
>  station to be tested under standards that were place under the previous
>  state law and of course, must meet that standard.  It's a vicious
>  circle.....
>  --
>  Jim Thompson
>  84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>  84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>  73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise" NO SMOG REQD
>  72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" NO SMOG REQD
>  oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>  http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>  ***********************************
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <
>  scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
>  > Also...what's the law ? 30 year old cars are free ?
>

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