11-17-2003, 07:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Northern California,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: -Sold- Contemporary 427S/C # CCX-3152 1966 427 Med Rise Side Oiler, 8v 3.54:1 Salisbury IRS, Koni's.. (Now I'm riding Harleys)
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I understand the titles read 0000. I'm not sure why the registration would be different than that. I don't know if that is still the way it is happening. I was hoping it was not.
The leglislation was suppose to allow you to register your car as either the year of the chassis or the year of the engine. This potentially meant if you had a 1966 427 you got a 1966 title. That didn't happen obviously. I was told recently by a builder the cars are essentially required to have the smog of the car it most resembles. That's fine for a 1966 Cobra or a 1963 Sprite but what are the one-off guys doing?
I guess getting out of the next 5 smog inspections (my car is already 16 years old) is worth something. I'm not sure it's worth losing it's identity as a 1988 Contemoprary. Maybe it is.
Don't get me wrong. I think for the guy with a 2003 crate motor this is a good thing. The guys that spent the money on vintage engines are taking it in the shorts though. Under the old system you could register your car as the year it was constructed and be responsible for the smog controls which would have come on the engine you chose to use, thus a 1988 5.0 was required to have all the '88 smog devices, cats, egr, canisters etc. But a 1966 or 68 427 or 427 was pretty much home free with a pcv valve.
I guess I will call the BAR and finish the process. At least the car tax was repealed today.
Regards,
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A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages... Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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