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Originally Posted by Kobura
I live in California. When I registered my car two years ago, I was told that the allotment of 500 "sequence number" applications for specially constructed vehicles (kit cars and home-made vehicles) had not been used up the previous year and I understand that they have not been used up in the subsequent years. I was told that in prior years, the numbers were used up well before the end of the year. There is also a form of lack of encouragement for SB100 licensing as the DMV seems to be applying closer scrutiny to the steps in the process. Of course, the easy path is to buy a used car that already has the SB100 exemption. Still, the drop in the number of new applications may be indicative of decreased interest in Cobras.
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My experience exactly. And I' just finishing doing this for the second time. Seven years ago, SB100 sequence numbers were hard to get, but getting through the process wasn't too bad. Now, it's reversed.
Given the demographics of the country, I expect that the "kit car" and "hot rod" segment of the car culture is on the decline while the "import" and "tuner" segments are on the up-swing.
For the same reason, my great grandfather's horse-racing buggy collecction never turned into the hot investment he thought it would.