No joke, Arizona's doing this, too.

Mike B.

----- Original Message -----
From: "neil N" <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Old Cars and engine conversions

> "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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>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
>
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