Connecticut: Registration, Inspection & Emissions

[Cashburn]

Another angle you may want to mention in your letters/emails etc. A customer of ours that is a cop mentioned a very good point to me. He said they need to list them as the year they replicate for law enforcement's benefit. The idea being if the car were ever stolen or they needed to identify it or track it for any purpose it would make the process much easier to refer to it as a 1965 vs. a 2006, 2007, etc... he would not know what to actually look for.

[Don]

Jay, agree. I will make the point in my next letter, assuming the current issue is not resolved ( smile ).

" Officer. my Composite may look like either a Cobra, or GT40, or T-Bucket, or Hot Rod, or Lotus 7, or Lamborghini, or 40 Ford, or Porsche. or 57 T-Bird or Willys. or................"

Oh, I see that Backdraft is on the cover of Kit Car Builder, have not yet read the article,

[Cashburn]

Originally Posted by Don

Oh, I see that Backdraft is on the cover of Kit Car Builder, have not yet read the article,

I have to go pick that one up, look under the hood of that bad boy

[RENEW1]

Hi Don,

Finding info on changes in compodite requirements is difficult and time consuming. I have used the SEMA site to get info on where things are happening and then spend hours searching legislative records for the state involved. SEMA site isn't always up to date. For instance, Oregon has passed a new composite requirement already but won't be on their DMV site until July. Most states that pass motor vehicle laws don't go into effect for 6 months to a year. I have attached (I hope),a word document made from SEMA info that documents what has changed in Cal of other states!! I havent learned how to link any of the legislative sites to this form yet.

[RENEW1]

Found more interesting stuff today. Got into email system where apparently various state emissions officials talk to each other. The main page has email from Ct official to a Georga official. If you do a Cntrl +mouse click on some of the headers you get even more. The Ct official I think got one of the year dates wrong ,should be 2006 not 2007,and the Composite numbers are different from what we have.Wait till you see the failure rate for Composites
Also found out that 1980 emissions specs in Ct are much higher than what I was told by DEP a few days ago. The specs I got are actually 1981 specs.
Interesting!!