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Originally Posted by Excaliber
Mr. Morgester,
My Hawaii replica is currently titled by the State of Hawaii as a 'street rod' under our local laws. The year and model are referred to as 1965 Cobra. Even the "Year first Sold" section is 1965! This was totally the States call, I made no statements what so ever to get my car registered as a 1965 anything. Would Calif accept that as the correct year of the car as it concerns the BAR?
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My official answer "ask DMV and BAR"
There are a lot of “ifs” in this response. Both BAR and DMV will have the final word on how this is interpreted.
Your car must be legally registered under existing law and all information disclosed. Any fraud in the state of origin would allow DMV to reject the title. (See Vehicle Code § 4305.) In your case the origin state legally titled the vehicle as a 1965 Ford. Per the statutes plain language “full faith and credit to the currently valid certificate of title describing the vehicle” it would appear that DMV is required to register this vehicle as a 1965 Ford.
The next question is what impact, if any, does this have on SPCN emission requirements? One view point is that since Vehicle Code § 4750.1 requires that emission testing be done by a “model year” that DMV assigns, and in that DMV is required to accept your vehicle as a 1965, that emission standards will be set at 1965.
Regardless of ones stance on emission requirements for SPCN vehicles, Vehicle Code § 4305 raises some very unique and interesting problems by its possible unintended consequences. I am sure that there will be official answers on how all of this will play out.