10-04-2002, 02:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Vacaville, CA, USA,
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A couple of things....
SB1578 was authored by the same person that authored SB100, our friend and fellow Cobra-replica owner Maurice Johannessen. What SB1578 does is modify SB100 to remove the "initial" item about registration, so you could conceivably re-register a California car that was registered via another method, or register a previously registered out of state car. The reason it took so long to get it signed was it was sitting on the Govenors desk waiting for signature - I won't say anything about him, and will leave those comments up to JimsGems!
As Lew notes, with 2 months left to the calendar year, and almost half of the alloted slots left, I don't think there is going to be too much trouble for anyone to register or re-register their cars.
Bony - I know your stand on registering cars out of state, but think you are a bit paranoid. Cobra owners are merely a speck in the total number of owners of hot rod and classic cars that are out there. As I have said before, there are exponentially more 32, 33, 34 roadsters out there than Cobra's that are registered as 32, 33, 34 Fords - and no one is going after them. How do you think they registered their cars (even before SB100)? Your point though is well taken though - with SB100/1578 folks in California should not be registering their cars through out-of-state services.
There has been a lot of rumour about the CA DMV sending out fraud letters. I can only verify one, and the reasons for it were due to something other than DMV looking for people. Even in this case, the individual involved is still driving his Cobra here in California.
Brad
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