You have to pay a $300 smog fee to get it registered, and it can not be a brand
new car. Then you still have to do the biannual year smog check. But it onl has
to pass the smog standards applicable to your car There is info about this at
the California DMV web site, also this has the info as well :
http://www.byte-me.org/~mallen/misc/ca-dmv.html#reg.

"Buettner, Peter" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just subscribed to this list.  For years I wanted to get a Westfalia.  Now
> it looks like my dreams might come true.  The problem:  I'm in California,
> the Westfalia I'm looking at is registered and located in Texas.  Does
> anybody have experience with 'importing' Westfalias into CA?  Will it pass
> the CA smog test?  Is there a way to get around the 'use tax'?
>
> Thanks for your attention,
> Peter