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Originally Posted by Ron61
Joyridin,
I am not trying to start anything just asking a question, so please don't a bunch jump in with opinions. How do you get a 2000 car that you don't have to have pass emissions? Out here we have to have them checked every other year if they are 1975 or newer and any changes they will fail even if they meet the tailpipe requirements. On the other hand, the cars that are changed over for racing can't be registered or driven on the street. A chrome aftermarket air cleaner can cause you to be failed it the referee is in a bad mood.
Ron  |
Ron - that's one of the consequences of this pending EPA rule that will probably end the great little deal we have going for us in Arkansas right now. We don't have emissions testing or safety inspections for any year vehicles - they were abolished by Huckabee back around 2000 as a waste and scam industry by the stations doing the checks. Collector vehicles over 25 years old can purchase a one-time plate for about $12 which never has to be re-newed. So basically we are just left alone.
I know in this day and age this leniency almost seems decadent but it's such a relief to not have to take my vehicles down every year and hand it over to some greasy mechanic or kid to screw around with that I don't think I could go back - I would just have to sell out.
I still remember when every year I would go in for a safety inspection and this inspector would every year tell me my head lights were out of adjustment and he would have to adjust them for an extra charge and the next evening I would find them pointing up in trees and in on-coming drivers windshields. So, I would go home and re-adjust them on the garage door - only to have to go through the same thing the following year again.
