Let's See Your Miscellaneous Car Photos
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Old Ears too
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No, it's an original paint, numbers matching '68 912 that I photographed for a friend so he can sell it.
Is that an early 911S? I think that I see a stainless steel rocker panel.
Old Ears too
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My '96 F-150 short box 4x4 shortly after I bought it new. It already has a dent in the box behind the gas filler door after some idiot on the job site backed into it.
This photo was taken about thirty years ago and I still own it and drive it daily but since then it has been lifted four inches and the box is in primer waiting for a complete paint job.
This photo was taken about thirty years ago and I still own it and drive it daily but since then it has been lifted four inches and the box is in primer waiting for a complete paint job.
Nice '65 Coronet... I love 60's Mopars !
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Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
East Bay or CA would have given me enough info. Worked there 88-91 at the now brownfield site where the pulp mill was. CA does have cars, too bad they can’t seem to help out the collector and need to have all cars pass today’s emissions. I own a car that would need full testing to get a CARB sticker and an emissions test. I won’t be selling it to that state. Didn’t own it when I was there.
At the time you were there - 1974 and older were exempt, and looks like it's still the same today. That was suppose to turn into a 30 year rolling exemption and it looks like they never implemented that change. In the 80's many car enthusiast groups lobbied for a 25 year rolling exemption, and were double crossed at the last minute by the politicos.
Really sucks for the people with mid 70's cars, who garaged them waiting for an exemption to kick in. Cars like the BMW 2002 and Porsche 914.
I prefer to look at the glass as half full. It’s 1975 and earlier. It’s a good cutoff for visual inspections and is easily enforceable. Not much beyond PCV and EGR valves up to that point. With Smog ll in the 90’s it got tougher with the smog dynos hooked up realtime to the DMV computers. With your smogger license, job and a $250k dyno at risk midnight auto smog checks for $100 and a 12 pack went away overnight. As did my outlaw 400hp ‘83 Bronco the next time it was due. The aftermarket headers and intake had CARB numbers. Swapping the stock carburetor and ignition back in and hooking it back up to the computer is all it would have taken because I used the stock heads. It’s highly unlikely the vintage Windsor block we built would have been detected. I donated it rather than make it gutless again and keep it.
We currently have Leno’s Law 2.0 in the works to make it 35 years. I remember trips to LA from Santa Barbara when I was a kid in the 60’s. My eyes burned, asthma flared, and weirdly my lower front teeth ached from the smog. I like old cars, but I love breathing.
About your examples- Only the last year 2002’s and 914’s missed the cut and those are far more desirable bone stock anyway. By ‘75 it was pretty much over for performance for decades. According to Hot Rod Magazine in’75 the quickest car available wasn’t a car at all, it was a half-ton 454 Chevy pickup. Porsche was failing spectacularly with thermal reactors and air cooling. The “3 Pile i’s” we’re eating their head gaskets for breakfast.
It was not the best of times again until the computers we older gear heads tend to hate gave us clean horse power. In ‘88 I bought an Acura Legend $27k. It’s 160hp 2.6L V6 was second only to the 220hp Taurus SHO. In 2014 I bought an R-Line Beetle convertible for $28k. 210hp, 2L, 4 cyl, turbo and VW’s DSG. 0-60 in 6.7 seconds and it handles like a go cart. It’s not going anywhere soon.
If you have the $1.5 million-ish and a 964 you can have Singer right here in California where they are made. I think their CARB approved, Ed Pink built air cooled, 4.0L flat 6,s are putting out 440hp for the current run of 964 based “Turbos”. Don’t worry we’re doing OK.
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How much would that car be worth today?Not my photo, but pretty cool photo of a Ferrari 365 California.
If you have a Tesla and a frustrated with the awkward door handles -- this is the logical replacement vehicle ...
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I think if you look at Leno's Law 2.0 (CA SB1392), you might become much disappointed - especially if your car is newer than 1986 and too old to have OBD 2.
The 'it' that you get at (the rolling) 35 years is just the privilege to obtain a collector car registration. To get that, you have to restrict driving to 1000 miles a year or get collector car insurance - which will also likely impose driving restrictions. The car can only be driven to collector events or shows not as primary transportation.
If you do register your car as a collector car, then:
- SB 1392 officially creates a rolling exemption. It provides a full smog check exemption for pre-1981 model years, and extends this cutoff forward by one model year each year until pre-1986 vehicles are entirely exempt by 2032.
- Cars newer than 1986 will still require a smog check every two years (with or without collector car registration).
- Cars newer than 1986 with collector registration can be modified all you want, but will need to go for smog check on the dyno with sniffer wand up the tail pipe every two years and pass the smog requirements set for the unmodified car. So if you stick a small block chevy in your 1976 914 Porsche, they will not care as long as it meets measured smog emissions specified for the unmodified 1.8L flat-4 car every two years.
You can continue to register your old car normally, drive as much as you want if you get a smog check every two years (including physical inspection to verify that car is not modified with illegal smog equipment - or whatever) - as long as you can find an old-style smog check station with the expensive-to-maintain dyno and sniffer wand smog test equipment.
1975 MY cars and older continue to be unrestricted.
So your 1976 914 is set free of smog compliance as long as you restrict your driving. If you have a normal 964, this does not help much.
My 1988 Porsche (which will never become exempt from Leno's Law) will not pass - its emissions are about 10% off, and smog inspection is due in July. That left me when 3 options.
- park it.
- sell it out of state.
- fix it.
I took the 3rd option, I just ordered a brand new OEM Porsche Cat from Germany which cost $6,000. So I will not register it as a collector car.
Leno's Law 2.0 made things worse for me and anyone with a 1987 car up to about 1995-ish, when OBD 2 smog inspection became allowed because it lowers resale value in CA and because smog inspections will cost more and be harder to get.
The original intent of Leno's Law was to make pre-OBD 2 cars exempt from smog check so that the (for profit) smog inspection stations could get rid of the old, costly dyno and wand equipment. But it does not do that so, WTF?
According to Sports Car Market, one sold for $3.6 million in 2017. Apparently there were only 14 ever built.
Is that your car? Looks like it slid and nailed a telephone pole.
No, thank goodness!
This was my truck, though...
