Will Herr Obama ban us from our wonderful cars of the past? Will he truly be that foolish?
In California the Democratic leadership in the State legislature has proposed not actually "banning" classic cars, but removing their current exemption from California’s draconian smog test requirements. If the smog exemption is lifted, then you’ll still be able to *own* a 57 Chevy… but you won’t be able to register it or drive it.
The first step took place in 2008. Prior to 2008 the law said that cars over 30 years old were smog exempt. Now it is cars made prior to 1978. The next step is next year when the 1978 limit pushes back to 1970, making all 70′s cars that are now smog exempt subject to smog. My sons’ 71 GTO will at that point become unregisterable, because there is no way to get a ’71 V-8 through todays smog limits.
Richard
Surely not. That would mean the hypocritical Al Gore would have to give up that gas-guzzling antique Camaro he drives around his hometown of Carthage, Tennessee.
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In California the Democratic leadership in the State legislature has proposed not actually "banning" classic cars, but removing their current exemption from California’s draconian smog test requirements. If the smog exemption is lifted, then you’ll still be able to *own* a 57 Chevy… but you won’t be able to register it or drive it.
The first step took place in 2008. Prior to 2008 the law said that cars over 30 years old were smog exempt. Now it is cars made prior to 1978. The next step is next year when the 1978 limit pushes back to 1970, making all 70′s cars that are now smog exempt subject to smog. My sons’ 71 GTO will at that point become unregisterable, because there is no way to get a ’71 V-8 through todays smog limits.
Richard
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