http://www.dmv.ca.gov/vr/smogfaq.htm#BM2535
Gasoline powered 1975 year model or older
Can you believe that 35 year old cars still have to be smogged there ? Everything from 1976+. That is just nuts.
I lived in CA when the emissions testing started and what a rip. Several years after it started I had a pickup that wouldn’t pass the inspection, had to take it to a mechanic who told me it would cost more to make it comply than the law required me to pay so he wrote a waiver.
I went back to the inspection station, walked in the office with the waiver and the turkey told me I had to have it inspected again. I just about went ballistic, I paid for the first inspection, paid the mechanic for his inpection and the waiver and now had to pay for a third inpection when everyone knew it wasn’t going to pass! *shaking head*
“Can you believe that 35 year old cars still have to be smogged there ? Everything from 1976+. That is just nuts.”
Not to sound like a troll here, but the pollution levels of the older cars are tens of times of newer cars.- and that’s for the ones that well maintained. For the ones that aren’t maintained, it’s in the hundreds. I’ve tested them, I know.
(and by the way, read my other 3000 or so posts, and you’ll see that I’m not a troll, I just happen to know where the bang for the buck is on pollution control)