We have gone through this several times up here now. Under SB-100, you the owner determine if you want to register the car by the year of the body or the year of the engine. All of us around here have used the body year. The final pink slip ( old Term ) will list it as a 2003 or whatever, but the SPCNS number will exempt it from any smog. When you go in they will stick the sniffer in it and after the machine quits choking, they issue you a smog exempt sticker which they place in an easy to get to place. The referee don't care and can't do anything about the engine if you go by the year of the body. The only option he has is if he thinks the car doesn't resemble a 1964 Cobra for example is he can ONLY change it to a 1960 which is even farther back. The same applies to the engine. If you decide to register the vehicle by the engine year and the referee doesn't think it resembles the engine of a 1962 for example, he can ONLY change it to a 1960. YOU, as the owner decide if you want it registered by body or engine year. We have guys with 502, dual carbs, and about everything esle go through without a hitch now that some of the DMV people have learned to read their memo on how to handle vehicles being registered under SB-100. As Turk said, I don't see how the state can think they have did anyone a favor by letting 500 vehicles a year be registered. And that would have been stopped if not for all the calls and *****ing by car people about Flores bill he tried to push through this last year. I am just waiting for the next edition of that bill to be submitted as the state is going to try to stop any vehicle not built by an approved builder from being registered here. They should just let people register their special construction vehicles and collect the registration fees on them instead of trying to make it impossible for anyone to have one. I have talked to people I know in Sacramento who are in the legislature and the anti car mentalilty is frightening. To few have to much power.
Ron
