New Classic Roadster Owner

[J. T. Toad]

I knew I should have put in a diesel

maybe I should convert it, like GM did

[Chevbra]

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 ...

[Ron61]

Chevbra,

When you do it under SB-100, they don't care at all about the engine as the owner decides what he is going to use, body style or engine. Most use the body style which takes the engine out of play except to generate the bar code. What has caused this big discussion, is there are no longer enough SB-100 numbers to even cover a fraction of the people needing one. Also when it first started, there was no SB-1578 and that cut way down on applications for the numbers as they could only be used on newly constructed vehicles. That is why they lasted so long the first year.

Ron