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When I had the referee "smog" my Cobra he didn't care what year the motor actually was. There were no engine code checks. What he did was put it on the smog machine and run it to generate a bar code which I put on the car. If I had put in a newer engine, mine is a 69, he wouldn't have cared or checked. I know he didn't check my engine code because I watched him do it and the code was machined off when the block was decked.
Anyway ... I could have requested the car be registered as what the body most closely resembled, voiding anything related to the motor.
I completely agree with you about getting a 65 motor and be able to prove it, if you register it the old way. It would be a 2005 smogged to 65 every 2 years.
This was what I was gearing up to before sb100 came out. You could always register the car this way and then try to get a sb100 slot on January 2nd next year.
I was blown away when all the slots were taken after 2 days this year!! For years there were slots that weren't taken ... hundreds !!
I remember when I went into the DMV when I was originally registering the Cobra. They hadn't even heard of it!! The DMV manager was looking at me as if I was some kind of criminal when I showed her a copy of the SB100 description I printed off the DMV website. After looking at it, she said she knew nothing about it and walked away. Another employee came up and told me she was going to a meeting about it in a few weeks and she would be the representative for SB100 in the office.
Amazing ... it's who you get.
Actually ... the registration went very smoothly. The woman I got that ran me through the process was excited and asked me to return to her every time so she could see how understand how to do it.

I've rambled long enough ...