A few days ago, I saw a 1965 Pontiac convertible, white interior, yellow paint job—with glistening rims. It was a beauty. Senator Grove has a bill to allow cars built after 1976 to also be saved and restored.
If you love old cars, if you love jobs for Californians, please contact Senator Grove (info at end of article) and support her bill. Just because Arnold does not like old, classic cars, does not mean the rest of us should not.
Steve, Last Friday, Senator Shannon Grove introduced SB 712 to re-instate the “Rolling 25” smog exemption for cars 1976 and newer. Arnold killed it back in 06 by Executive Order. Please post this to your website. I own four classic cars that fall in this category. Parts are very difficult to get for engine smogging. A rebuild kit in CA for a GM Quadrajet carburetor is only a gasket set! If it needs other parts, you are out of luck because Ca won’t allow the sale of them. This affects the car parts businesses that would like to help keep these cars on the road and not the crusher. Paint shops could do more restorations as well as mechanic shops. A multi-billion dollar industry that is leaving California, once the car capital of the USA!
The main problem is getting these cars to pass smog when CARB has made the standards more stringent that when they cars were new. Most shops no longer have the OBD 1 scanners, and the smog shops charge twice as much for the 76 to 95 cars because they take longer and are more often rejected and require re-smogging fees (some give you one free re-inspection) plus mechanical fees to tweak them. Once a car passes smog, one must re-tune the car to adequately run smooth as the fuel is starved for air and advanced timing.
You can call Senator Grove’s office at 916 651-4012 for more information and possibly a press release. They welcome support. Thanks, Steve Spatola, Stockton
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