[Cobra Chuck]

Originally posted by Cobra Chuck


Whoa!!!!
Lets do the math again on SB 100. SB100 allows 500 SPCNs a year. We ran out of the numbers in June. June is half way through the year. That leaves 500 kit car builders this year not able to register their cars. They will be the very first people to eat up the 2004 allocation of numbers, all the the people who have cars that would be ready in 2004 (1000) applicants are then waiting until 2005 so only half of the 1000 hold over 2004 applicants can get their cars registered in 2005 etc. etc. etc. Within a few years we will have such a huge backlog rods needing SB100 registration you could wait 5 years after building your car to get it licensed. Why? Because of a small minded chunk of legistation called SB100. I agree that SB100 is better than nothing but it is so typical of the mentality that also brought us the 2000-2001 electric energy crisis, the largest state government in history and a multi billion dollar black hole called a state budget. The current state governemt has daned it their responsibility to run business out of the state, try to clean up the air and water at all cost with technology concieved in Rube Goldbergs kitchen(MTBE and other technology). I read Senator Johansen's (a rodder) first draft of SB100 it looked pretty fair to me. Davis decided it was too filthy for his taste and shot it down ultimately a deal was cut where Davis would allow the bill with a 500 limit if Johansen a Republican would vote on a key Democratic bill. That vote angered many Republican because Johansen broke rank.

You got yours. I got mine. So what? I am planning on building a Daytona Coupe next year. When do you think I should apply for my SPCN #? 2005, 2006, 2007 maybe. That is why I am unhappy about SB100 and many other things in this state. Are you willing to accept a flawed deal? Are you satisfied with SB100? I am not and I want to change it to include more SPCNs so that rodding does not become stiffled and political mess.

Chuck

Of course we will have to let things get into a real mess before anyone will do anything about it. The only way you can get a politician to support something is if it is "Sexy", "Popular", "Trendy" or an "Emergency". There just isn't enough political hay if an issue isn't as mentioned above. Let's see, building hot rods, is that "Sexy", "Trendy", "Popular"? I think not. So I guess we will wait until we are title washing cars again, have a backlog of 2000 rods waiting for a state sanctified registration and it will be called an emergency before we could even get a politician to return a phone call.

Chuck