On Fri, 9 Jun 1995, TeriAnn Wakeman wrote:
> There is one loophole in California's SMOG regs no one has yet mentioned.
>
> Here you are required to have the car SMOGed every other year. If the car is
> liscensed and on the road during a year it does not need to be SMOGed, taken
>off
> the road for the year it does need to be SMOGed, it can be licensed the
> following year without needing a SMOG test. You can drive a car every other
> year in California without ever having the car SMOG tested. The division,
>last
> time I looked, is by even and odd last numbers of the license plate number.
>
> Sooooo One posibility is to have two cars, one with even plate one with an
>odd
> numbered plate with registrations due at about the same time. Drive one for
>a
> year while working on the other then switch at the end of the license year.
> Perfectly legal.
>
> I learned this by actually having the MGBGT off the road for a year it needed
>a
> SMOG test and discovering I didn't need it when I got it registered the
> following year.
>
> Soooooo Just buy up a pair of very cheap unsnogable cars, get the right
>plates
> on them & register them at the same time. You can drive your MGB V8 one year
> and your TR6 V8 the other year
>
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I live in CA. I own 8 cars. I keep 2 cars in current registration.
5 of my cars are required to meet smog standards, and get tested. Every
time I "activate" on of the cars that is in stand-by mode and get current
registration I need to get it smoged. Maybe my timing is off by a year!
LEX
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