Calif registration and exaust noise...

[Ron61]

Brad,

I agree with what you said in points 1 to 3. The Redding DMV has long been the worst place in Calif. to do anything and most people here have gone to other towns for many years. And yes, they not only didn't even know about SB-100 to start with, even after they got the word from Sacramento I had to tell them almost six months later about their own website that gives the number of slots left for the year. One of the guys here went to get his special construction number and they told him they had no way of knowing if there were any slots left open. He had them call me as I had been talking to David Pegos in Johannessen's office about some other problems up here and he had offered to send a state person up to this DMV and straighten them out. Daniel can explain a lot of this much better than I, but after our DMV finally accepted the fact that this is a law and not open to their interpetation of it the last four cars up here have sailed through with no problem. Even the smog referee now accepts that the owner selects wheather he wants to register by the body and year or the engine and year and if he dosn't agree all he can do is make it a 1960. I think the original intent was to allow people bringing Cobras into Calif. from out of state to be allowed to register them as whatever they were already registered as in other states but I am not sure. I have the bill here in front of me and have read it several times and it is kind of misleading in some ways. The way I understand it is the new bill will let you change what the car is registered as if you get in on the first 500. I have mine insured as a 1965 Cobra Replica and I made sure the insurance company knew what I have. They wanted three pictures of the car and one of the garage where I will keep it and I also got the full agreed value that doesn't go down over the years. Daniel did I mess up to bad on this ?