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heh... well unless my VIN plates were changed once already my car has a manufacture date around Feb 1976, according to the door plate anyways.

Anywho, to be able to get away with it, I think I'd have to get a 1975 parts car to send to the junk yard as a 76.

I don't think I can just mysteriously reregister my car as any other year.
 
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Anywho, to be able to get away with it, I think I'd have to get a 1975 parts car to send to the junk yard as a 76.

I don't think I can just mysteriously reregister my car as any other year.

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There ya go - buy a '74-1/2 or '75 California parts car for $200 or so & register it! Then, sell a '76 California parts car for the same price!
 
Devious thats what you guys are Devious, I like it.
 
Go to the yard w/ a razor blade & some starting fluid....

Get yer own smog sticker off a recent wreck.

(Snag an inspection sticker while yer at it)
 
In California it goes directly to DMV via computer.
You just get a receipt & readout,for your records,with
the results on it.
They also don't issue inspection stickers here.

- Doug
 
doesn't work that easy for us in Kalifornia. The smog inspection station is wired into the DMV network and electronically notifies the DMV if the car passes or fails. Me just showing up with a "passed" decal wouldn't work... heh

actually, they don't even give us smog decals, or at least I've never seen or recieved one in the past.
 
If you don't get a smog test when told to do so - you don't get your registration renewed & won’t be issues any tags for your license plate. Now I don't know for sure what'd happen if you got caught with the tags off of another vehicle. But I bet it’d be a fair guess the consequences would be a whole worst than just driving around without a current registration. Heck it might even be a felony.

Here are two possible scenarios should a cop pull you over for some reason or you get caught by some form of automated photo enforcement (red light camera):

Scenario #1) No current registration – officer writes you a ticket, has your car impounded and you pay a fine.

Scenario #2) No registration & you have an “ill-gotten” tag affixed to your license plate. Officer impounds your vehicle and you go to jail.

You make the call?
 
Wow you guys play rough out there....

You have to actually steal THE WHOLE car to go to jail back here.

Everything else is a fine.
 
David,

Oh you can bet if you steel the “whole car” out here you'll go to jail – but probably for a much longer period of time than you would for steeling the license plate’s regrestration tags.

BTW I hope you’re not saying that the fine upstanding law enforcement officials in your state would turn the other way if they discovered or caught someone that had illegally removed the tags of someone elses vehicle. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
soooooo, what would happen, if say, somone was caught with tags from another one of there own vehicles?

Officer: " This doesn't look like a 1961 MGA to me"
Driver: "ohh, the british where way ahead of their time, they had the 5 mph rubber bumpers waaaaay back in the 50's"
Officer: "really?"
Driver: "oh yeah, this is a 61 MGA alright, see the MG badge on the front"
Officer: "says here; color-white....How do you explain that?"
Driver: "oh, thats easy sir, I just had it painted"
Officer: "well you had 7 days to notify the DMV of this change, and you obviously still have not."
Driver: " oh, I was just on my way back from the bodyshop, DMV is my next stop /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif "
Officer: "welp, story checks out so far...lets just check that VIN and I'll be on my way"
Driver: "!!!!!!"
 
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Driver: " oh, I was just on my way back from the bodyshop, <font color="red"> DMV is my next stop</font> /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif "
Officer: "welp, story checks out so far...lets just check that VIN and I'll be on my way"
Driver: "!!!!!!"

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My neighbor Bob (the CHiP officer) tells me that’s one of the most used excuses he gets when questioning someone over an expired tag or drivers license. But one of the more common abusers of that excuse are motorcyclist who get pulled over for a moving violation only to discover that they don’t have valid motorcycle license.

The best one was the moron who was sitting just one lane over from my friend with a car in-between them. Then popped a wheelie when the light turned green, totally oblivious to my neighbor on his motorcycle until he flipped on his lights to pull him over. When my friend finally got him to pull over and asked him for his license & registration. The first words out of his mouth where “here’s my drivers license but I was on my way to the DMV to get my motorcycle license”.

We chuckled about that one – then my wife asked my friend; “Well how do you know he wasn’t telling the truth about being on his way to the DMV?” Bob smiled, took a pull on his beer & said because the DMV ain’t open on Sundays. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I always go by the motto -
- "If you're honest,you don't have to keep looking over your shoulder".
However - I now see how California DMV makes people lie.

- Doug
 
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BTW I hope you’re not saying that the fine upstanding law enforcement officials in your state would turn the other way if they discovered or caught someone that had illegally removed the tags of someone elses vehicle. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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I got pulled over for speeding one time & got off w/ a stern warning......

Also.....I had no registration, plates or inspection.....

The officer told me to go home & park it.......
"NEXT TIME YOU PULL THIS CRAP YOU'LL BE WALKING"

I said.....Thanks very much sir /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
 
Very lucky......

BTW: My Caddy just passed the e-test today with flying colors...Heres hoping the Jag goes as well next week /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
g'luck!
 
jeese you must have to spend a small fortune just on inspections.
 
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jeese you must have to spend a small fortune just on inspections.

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Now I guess it should be said that not everyone in Kalifornia is required to take their vehicles to the state ran “Test Only Smog Station”. Most can take it to a local service station or a auto shop that is licensed & certified to perform smog checks. In those cases – you can have them effect repairs or tell you what the problem is should you want to fix it yourself or take it somewhere else. In fact many shops guarantee that you’ll pass the emissions test or you don’t have to pay. But should it require more than a few minor adjustments they won’t charge for re-testing if you let them fix the problem. However there is a down side to this as some mechanics will do “whatever it takes” to force your vehicle to pass. Opening the door of course for a “few” unscrupulous shops and/or mechanics.

But sometimes (most of the time for me it seems) folks are randomly selected to have their vehicles tested at a one of those “test only" station and you are usually at the mercy of somebody who’s automotive knowledge is lacking or none existent. This is why it pays to know your vehicle whether you do your own work or pay someone else to do it for you. Because if it fails the horrible cycle could continue indefinitely and as you said cost a small fortune.

Either way Kalifornian’s who own older classics lose under the current system. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
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