[Turk]

Michael,
However it DOES start the registration process for a car that has no VIN mumber. A car just recently completed.

As a matter of fact, you DO pay your sales taxes as you are given the piece of paper to take it to the CHP to have the VIN number installed. You then go to the BAR for the smog exempt portion of the registration, only to end up back at the DMV with all items checked to get your registration and plates, and the title.
Up to that point you have nothing more than an MSO.

Wht exactly do you mean, SB-100 is not a registration process?
It is indeed The registration process to have a car that does not have to comply with smog requirements...

Can you take a previously registered car to DMV and ask to have it re-registered so you won't have to worry about the smog?

TURK