[Chevbra]

Just a little info ...

In Ca. there are two ways to register your car if you built it yourself. The first is to do it the old way before SB100 came along.
You have to have the VIN verified by taking it to a CHP office, pass a brake and lamp inspection by a certified shop and pass smog. The first two are straight forward but it's the smog that is different with the old way or SB100.
The old way is to smog it to the engine code with all the smog requirements the engine had in it's original form. Let's say you registered it today and you have a 69 Ford 351 in it. It would be a 2005 ... smogged to 69 Ford standards every two years.
SB100 allows you to register it as a 2005 but the year of smog is what year the car itself most closely resembles or what year the engine most closely resembles ... visually ... your choice. If they can't decide what year then it's given the year 1960.
The smog equipment required for your car with SB100 is described as " what the car reasonably acommodates in it's present form."
As of Jan 4 2005 all 500 sequences have been assigned. Wow!!! No more available till Jan 2006.


You have to take it to a referee to do this. They are usually in a Junior College.
I took my Cobra in and the guy says "what year do you want it to be smogged to?" I said 1965. There ya go ... smogged to 65, which means "exempt".

If you buy the car rolling then you are stuck with however the car originally was smogged and registered.

Matt