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Massachusetts has an annual vehicle safety and emissions inspection. The Healeys are exempt emissions, but last year they changed the procedure so the inspector has to drive the car into the inspection bay and operate all the lights, directionals, horn, ebrake, etc then check the ball joints for wear. And it's all on video. What a goat rope with the Nasty Boy and Bugeye going in. All the controls are different and I have to do an off-camera tutorial for the inspector to get through the checks. The cars are so low, it's a struggle to get a floor jack underneath. The local inspector is great, but he just loved trying to take pictures of the chassis numbers in two different locations. Then I still had to do the two DDs. Still isn't to California levels, so I probably shouldn't complain. but I still get the shakes left over from high school when I could never tell whether my bugeye would make it through inspection. Fixing leaky mufflers with that fiberglass muffler wrap was bad enough, but stuffing steel wool down the mufflers to quiet the glass packs was worse. And why did the directionals and horn always work at home and stop when I hit the inspection station?
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