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For all the pundits:

Arizona is not your state. In Arizona, the law is clear on how to title and register a kit car. The law is written such that a kit car is required to be titled as the vehicle year it represents. The model is often identified as SPCNS or something to that effect, which, when combined with the Arizona-provided VIN clearly differentiates titles between real Cobras and fakey-do kit cars. The system works very well and prevents all the issues with emissions, safety equipment, and vehicle manufacturers. We do not have extra bureaucracy where a bunch of rules have to be written and state employees have to have formal processes, forms, and churn, whereby all 20XX manufactured vehicles have to go through emissions testing and comply with all the CFRs, except these pesky kit cars and by the way - "here are the rules for your 'special' process that the state spent money to develop, and the state employees will spend extra time processing". On the contrary, our process is simple, effective, and once your kit car is titled, it is treated like all other '65 or '66 cars on the road. Given the current state of the economy, taxes, and governmental debt, I would think more states should look to Arizona as a leader in the KISS method of handling titles and registration. I guess some folks just like bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy.