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California, a number of years ago, decided they did not like replicas registered that way and put a stop to it. They also offered something like a grace period for already registered replicas to confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, and then re-register with an appropriate level of fines imposed to again regain the good graces of DMV and the other regulatory authorities.

Many did, and predictably, some did not. In the 'some did not camp,’ there was a mixture of yet more severe penance (fines) and, in selected cases, supposed confiscation and destruction of the vehicle. You have pulled up a chair to an extremely high-stakes poker table that you probably would not knowingly be otherwise sitting at. Of course, there is always the Russian Roulette Rule that says not every trigger pull finds a primer ...