This would only be a problem for our cars if they decrease the emissions
limits. If they stick with the old 1960's limits, I think any good running
Alpine would pass. Last time I took my car for a test, it was way below the
limits.
Sergio
1967 Sunbeam Alpine
Series V 'AJNT 86'
still working on it but getting closer!
----- Original Message -----
From: steve sage <rootes(at)ix.netcom.com>
To: Alpines List <alpines(at)autox.team.net>; Tigers List
<tigers(at)autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 1999 10:07 PM
Subject: Car Trouble?
> Hello Everyone:
> At the CAT club meeting last week, a very interesting flyer was brought
> in from the "ACCC" (Association Of California Car Clubs). I'm not sure
> what the date of this flyer is but it is of concern to all of us if it's
> recent. I'll paraphrase it to keep things short, so here goes.
>
> "The Defeat Of Senate Bill 285, A Loose/Loose/Catch 22 Fiasco"
> "If you're not current on collector car legislation, Senate Bill (SB)
> 285 was introduced by Sen. Dick Mountjoy to exempt 1973 and older cars
> from the new Infra-Red Roadside Sensing Device Smog Inspection" .....the
> story goes on to say this bill was not passed by the Senate
> Transportation Committee and so can not go to the Senate for a vote.
>
> What this device and plan is, in California, is to read car exhaust
> emissions while you're driving your car down the freeway without your
> knowledge. If your Sunbeam (or other fine motorcar) fails this drive by
> test, you'll get a certified letter from the Bureau Of Automotive Repair
> ordering you to take your car into a "test only" or smog referee station
> for a BAR-97 (smog testing machine) test. You have only 30 days to come
> in. If your car can't be made to pass (and the new test is much more
> stringent than the previous test, if I understand it correctly), the
> implication in the flyer is you might have to surrender your license
> plates!
>
> This is part of the California plan to get old cars off the road,
> claiming that's where a significant amount of smog comes from.
>
> The flyer continues: "During the debate on SB 285 (5 minutes) when Sen.
> Karnette (who voted against passing this bill) leaned over to her Chief
> Of Staff Steve Schnaldt and asked, "What's a carburetor?", I knew we
> were in trouble. The fate of the California car hobby was being decided
> by four car-hating environmentalists"
>
> "But the worst is yet to come. A BAR smog certificate is only valid for
> 90 days, so if your car fails Infra-Red testing (and if you do get it to
> pass when you take it in), you may have to have it tested 4 times a
> year!".
>
> Has anyone on our lists heard about this? Is this for real? That good
> bill was passed in our favor last year (exempting pre-1973 cars from
> smog testing), but this seems like an attempt by another government
> agency to defeat the decision of the state house without putting it to
> another vote. I doubt that this new bureacratic nightmare (if for real)
> would stand up to a court challenge, since it's contrary to the intent
> of last year's legislation, but who knows?
>
> Steve Sage
>
>
>
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