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[Ron61]

Dan,

That is what my cousin up in Omaha has told me. That crap is just a rip off out here too as they let the big companies just keep dumping stuff into the air. This state is not anything like the state that I knew from 50 years ago. If I wasn't so old and my health so bad I would really be looking to move out of here.

Ron

Originally Posted by DanEC

Ron - that's one of the consequences of this pending EPA rule that will probably end the great little deal we have going for us in Arkansas right now. We don't have emissions testing or safety inspections for any year vehicles - they were abolished by Huckabee back around 2000 as a waste and scam industry by the stations doing the checks. Collector vehicles over 25 years old can purchase a one-time plate for about $12 which never has to be re-newed. So basically we are just left alone.

I know in this day and age this leniency almost seems decadent but it's such a relief to not have to take my vehicles down every year and hand it over to some greasy mechanic or kid to screw around with that I don't think I could go back - I would just have to sell out.

I still remember when every year I would go in for a safety inspection and this inspector would every year tell me my head lights were out of adjustment and he would have to adjust them for an extra charge and the next evening I would find them pointing up in trees and in on-coming drivers windshields. So, I would go home and re-adjust them on the garage door - only to have to go through the same thing the following year again.