Oh boy!

[Bullitt347]

This is where power in numbers may help. Get car clubs involved. We have booths at car shows and racing events to educate hobbyists. Never give up. If you do, you become part of the problem.

The NRA has survived so long due to membership action. There are many, many folks who oppose guns including members of Congress. The moment we stop fighting, we'll lose the battle.

Yes, I'm preaching. Lol

I am sure part of the problem is, this is such a rural area, there are not enough voters to make it worth their while. Gotta give attention to where the taxpayers are, that is the focal point of their attention. They just don't GAF about a handful of rural voices. They can on us all day long and still get elected with ease.

 

[TuFun]

I posed comments to the environmental board on an open sessions as many did and still ignored. We have a big problem with green mindset here in our Cali government. Majority of people are not concerned about hot rods, more concerned about living.

"Annual test volume numbers including projections for the coming years. This is from the California BAR meeting this year discussing the BAR-97 testing program."

Something like 400k+ cars, that about under 1% total of cars driven.

 

[rednotch]

She lists Massachusetts as one of the states, but I don't see it.

MA has a rolling 15 year exemption on emissions. Anything older than 15 years just doesn't get it...even the plug in OBD2 cars. As for costs to register and such, the older the vehicle, the cheaper it is generally. My '88 and '00 are MUCH cheaper to register and pay annual excise taxes on than my new stuff. I have a vanity plate on my '88, so it's a little more expensive, but all in with regards to gov't fees (registration, excise, inspection) i'm in for $135/annually on that car. My '23 Explorer ran me just under $1K in the same gov't mandated cost...mostly excise.

I don't see anything in the pipeline from MA either. I'm in a few local groups where this stuff gets spotted pretty quick when someone tries to pass a new restriction. So far they haven't paid much attention to the handful of older cars that drive on the roads 3 months a year here.

You know what forces people out of older cars in MA? Rust from all the damn salt in the road. Seeing something older than 15 years driving around as an every day car around here is rare because most vehicles start rusting out around 150K miles


CA is just a whole different level of suck with regards to vehicles. Ironically I am about to hop on a plane to CA

Oddly NJ charges a few bucks more for 79 and under, my 79 if $3 more that my 90 or 93 lol, rest goes by weight .