[Jack21]

I live in Virginia, and I hate to tell you what a hassle it was getting my car titled as a pre-'74 Specially Constructed Vehicle, but with perserverience (and biting my lip a lot), I got through it.

There are tougher places on the East coast to register these cars. NY, NJ, Conn, just for openers.

Seems to me though, admitting my stupidity, that an organization like SEMA (Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association), is the big looser if they don't get busy getting legislature through the system in California. Cobras are a drop in the bucket compared to hundreds of thousands of specialty vehicles (and manufacturers)in CA. Time to start flooding your elected representatives with mail.

Slow process, perhaps, but it does work. Virginia is one of 36 "Shall Issue" States for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. There is a group called Virginia Citizens Defense League, now numbering about 120,000 people, who are most pro-active in lobbying State firearms legislation.

Sounds like CA hot rodders, street rodders, Cobra owners, and manufacturers ought to get politically organized, or get more involved with an organization already doing this (SEMA?) to straighten out bad motor vehicle registration laws.