Interesting. So what stops you from building your kit with a 1967 Alfa motor,
then popping in something later after you've cleared all the paperwork?
It's mind boggling that the rules allow you to do this kind of thing, i.e. put
a 'new' 1964 vehicle on the road, but prohibit you from bringing in something
much newer which would be cleaner, safer, and probably more fuel efficient.
This was at the outset supposed to be a rolling exemption - 30 years?
All I know is that when they got up to 1975 the legislature made the
rolling stop there, which explains why that carbureted Alfetta GT I know
of is registered as a '75. Hey, it might be, you never know...
The thinking was that after 20-some years most cars are either junked or
become pampered hobby items (the same thinking behind most collector car
insurance), and so the car will either be kept in top condition and
driven relatively little or else it will be one of a very small group of
clunkers... and if it's sniffed out as a Gross Polluter it'll get hauled
off to the crusher anyway.
I don't know what the chances are of slipping a 164LS engine into a car
that was registered with a 1600, but I'd hate to expend all that work
and money and then lose it all when the ruse came to light, as it could
any number of ways. I've seen some examples of cars that might well have
to be kept beneath the radar, like that supercharged Milano, and haven't
a clue as to how it's done. I think I'm about to inherit the task of
flogging off a '77 Citroen CX that is actually an undocumented
immigrant, and there's no chance in hell I'll be able to sell it within
California. Anybody in Tennessee want a CX?
Will Owen
--
to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
