[jmarsey]

Folks,

I went through this issue back in '04 and was scolded by Sacramento for not having my car ready in the year of my sequence number, for whatever bs-excuse I gave them.

The original intent of the SB-100 process, and I believe still is, was to allocate sequence numbers to cars that were reasonably ready to be registered in that particular year, and not to uncompleted cars that might get, or planned to get, finished in said year. Many of us took advantage of this loop hole by securing a number in January and registering our cars in December. Some of us even got “extensions”, which don’t exist, into the following year. You just paid the next years fees and hoped the sequence number went through when they sent it to Sacramento the day you were trying to get a license plate.

The point is, even if Sac is currently saying they are honoring all unused sequence numbers of any year, it was clearly not the intension at the conception of SB-100 . Also, not fair to the folks who have turn key cars and have to wait because of guys like us lucky enough to secure a number with a garage full of cobra parts and a lot of hope.

If folks start thinking all they have to do is get a sequence number and it’s good for any year in the future, there won't be any numbers left for the ones who actually have cars.

Don't be too hard on old Sandy H, even if she is a b#*%h. She is actually doing us a favor by motivating you to get your car done. We are the ones at fault by not registering our cars in the given year and confusing the process.

Get your cars done and registered ASAP before they change or cut SB-100. I was lucky but didn't exactly play by the rules either.

For what it's worth, John