CHP Today

After waiting 3 weeks for a CHP appointment for VIN verification, today is the day. I'm hoping I've got all paperwork they'll need and I can "move forward" in the CA registration process.

It was alot of fun cruising down the 134 this morning and even a little chilly. I just wanted to keep going and head on down to the beach.

This work thing interferes with my Speedster fun.

Good luck Dennis! Let us know what happens.......

Dennis -

Good luck with your CHP gig!

Looking forward to having you join us on our next SoCal SOC cruise!

Peace - Out!

CHP were cool. FAXED NC for prior BofS confirm and went with the IM # for the VIN. As far as THEY were concerned, it was off to DMV for tags.

However, DMV had other ideas. Basically, what everyone else has stated here before. Smog referree and SB100 route. They'll keep me in temp tags until January 2.

However, they tell me the smog referee won't see me w/o the SB100 # and I know that's not always the case. Will try calling and find out for sure.

At least I'm driving her!

Dennis

Great news. Just like I said in my e-mail to you yesterday. As long as you have your temp tags you can be on the road. So all in all good news.

You will need the SB100 to get to a smog referee, that what me smog ref told me mon.

My next door neighbor is a CHP and very cool, she drives her Miata like she stole it and loves my IM.
I have always liked CHIPS best of all the law enforcement agencys.

Dave

OK, I feel better knowing we both got the same story. So, we camp out on January 1st for #'s the 2nd?

Guys,

Don't just camp out on the 2nd of January. Get your paperwork together and in early or mid December, go to the DMV office you have chosen and do a pre-test. Explain that you want to make sure everything is good and that that DMV office has experience with the SB100. Not all DMV offices have experience.

After making that pre-run, then camp out at the DMV for the first day open of 2009!

Best of Luck!!!

Dale

this is exactly the scenario i did not want to experience. i held out for a used VS already registered in CA as a vw.

OK, what if we camp out and are #501 and DON'T get the SB #???

That would suck. I'd guess that you'd be in violation if you drove your car on the street.

I am just guessing, Larry knows the law much better, but you might be able to buy a pre-67? pre-66? engine and register as a SPCN. That would require that you pass smog for the engine year in the car. If you change the engine out to your "larger" engine after that and before your next bi-annual smog test you might be ok.

Try again next year for the SB-100.

I was also reading on the Cobra Club forum that there was something happening in the law that would allow a new engine based upon an old block to be registered as an old engine. Example: If you had a new engine built on a recently cast block that was identical/similar/based on the original block then you could grandfather that new engine as if it were an old engine. This is a stretch of my memory so you might need to some research. One of the comments on Cobra Club was that even the BAR and Smog guys had not heard or this "new" law or interpetation.

Good Luck.

I've got a 67 engine (Type 1 Orig 1600 cc)but I'm concerned I'm going to have to modify to pass smog testing, OR am I exempt with the 67 engine? CB Performance did the engine to 2160cc with dual Webers.

You should (must) have the smog equipment on the engine that is required for that year engine. It has been sometime but I think that CA required some sort of PCV valve on 66 and 67 VW engines.

You should be able to contact the BAR for information.

FWIW, in 1994 I took a '71 Buick Centurion with a 455 Rocket to a smog check in Imperial Beach -- after the car had been sitting for more than a year.
It passed, but it cost me a few hundred bucks and I'm pretty sure the emissions-checking hose was connected to a different car. I later found out from the Calif. DMV (in National City, I think) that I could pay a one-time $300 gas-guzzler tax and not have to smog the car. That's what I did the next time it was due, but I don't know if that's changed. The car had been previously registered in Montana, with no smog equipment installed at the factory.
I traded the car away to a dude in Poway before I left for Europe in '97; no idea what became of it. As far as I know, the 455 was going to be hooked to an early '70s Cadillac front-wheel-drive transaxle and installed in a Corvair.
I got a '71 Moto Guzzi for the Buick.

Dennis,

My smog referee last monday told me as long as I had a 67 or less he did not care about the dual carbs, non stock air cleaner, electronic dizzy and lack of fuel evap system. He seemed to know his stuff, he was the guy in the office and in the shop.

You might want to call your smog referee in your area and see if you can ask him about 67 or less and non standard equipt. if you are concerned.

Dave

Good idea Dave. I'll sleep better knowing SOMETHING. But, driving to Carlsbad tomorrow to see the kids and it'll be great weather! Temp tag or not!!

Dennis, I would love to see your IM. I am in Carlsbad just off Carlsbad Village and the 5. Give me a call if we could hook up. 561 301 7885

Hey Will, sorry I saw your post on my return from Carlsbad. Next time I'm going down, we'll get together. Traffic on the 5 S was awesome at 6:30a and we sailed down to Carlsbad in 90 minutes. We left at 2P and it took us 3 hours to get home. I really do hate The 5. Car ran cool and we got numerous thumbs up from other motorists!

Look forward to getting together in the near future. Best, Dennis

Too bad someone does't have a stock motor to loan out and plug in for the Ref's to see.