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I was looking for how many years the rolling exemption was and found it, and found it was being attacked by a bill to get rid of it.
I wrote an e-mail to the governator and afterwards further researched that I was too late and it has been passed and changed to 35 year rolling emissions, or 1976 and older. I am just about to get a beautiful 79 RX-7 and it would've been only 13 months away from being exempt in California. So please feel my pain.

link to what the new bill has enacted.
http://www.geocities.com/smogrfg/ab2683/ab2683.html


Here is the letter that I wrote to the governator:

My name is Ben Martin, and I am 23 years old and live in Stinson Beach in beautiful Marin County, Ca.
This e-mail is being sent as I am against the bill known as A.B. 2683, which would like to eliminate the 30 year rolling emissions exemption.

I am a huge car enthusiast. I appreciate and love all sorts of cars. Especially the classics. I think about cars at every spare moment I have to. They are my passion, my hobby and my love.
Unfortunately my classic is a 1979 RX-7 and has 13 months left to be exempt under the 30 year emissions exemption law. One of the first few months of the 1979-1995 run that my beloved RX-7 has had. It’s a beautiful sports car, and has all original paint, interior, engine, wheels, etc, etc. Original everything, including the archaic and problem ridden "thermal reactor" that was introduced before cats. This is not something you can just weld a catalytic convertor on to. It is literally a 100lb cast iron reactor bolted to the exhaust outlet of my motor. It works now, but is not going to work forever. And having a soon to be 30 year old car is something I was looking forward to. I keep my newer vehicles bone stock because of emissions and would love to personalize my classic with something other than this thermal reactor it is equipped with.

The people who wrote this bill could not be 1/3 of the car enthusiast that I am.
Don't force our beautiful classics off the road, or into bone stock only configuration. We car enthusiasts love them. We take care of them. We drive them to share them with everyone else on the road. California has so many beautiful classics still on the road being driven. Please don't ruin our fun. I get so excited and such a smile on my face when I see a beautiful, lovingly cared for classic car. I've never known so many beautiful cars on the road as in California and have fallen in love with this state for its many beauties.
Classic sports cars and muscle cars should be seen AND heard.

I am firmly against Bill A.B. 2683 which wants to get rid of the 30 year rolling emissions exemption! This is my first letter ever to any form of government politician, and is something I am passionate against. I am a young, ambitious and talented young man that has fallen in love with California as the 3rd state I have called my home. I don't want to live anywhere else now. My success in both life and career are growing exponentially since I have lived in California, and I am in love with life which is such a beautiful feeling.

Is it really possible that my letter could make any sort of difference in the government, let alone to governor Schwarzenegger? Show me, a young impressionable Californian and American what a letter to the right person can do. I love my new home state, my country and all of the cars I see on the road, and drive myself.
Veto A.B. 2683!

Thank you for listening,
Benjamin James Martin
PO Box ***
Stinson Beach, Ca 94970


P.S.
Oh no, minutes after writing this, I further researched the bill and have been horrified to find out that I am too late and A.B. 2683 has passed. I feel like crying. It further shows how californias smog ***** have cracked down on the car enthusiasts. The most important car enthusiast being myself. This is by far my most disliked attribute of the Great State of California, and tied together with the real estate prices is the only reason I would ever ever move away from this beautiful state that I have grown to love so quickly. I am dealing with renting, but now my dreams of having my very own classic car to keep shiny and beautiful and personalize into an experssion of my own self and love of cars are choked down to keeping it 100% stock or else it is not suitable for the road. I beg to differ!
I am so sad to have learned it like this after writing such a letter. My first letter to any form of government, squashed like a bug.....

I would like you to know that this will be the reason I move from California if that day ever happens. I can survive as a renter, but I cannot survive without my love of cars.

Sincerely dissapointed, distressed and sickened,
Benjamin James Martin

SmogSUX

iTrader: (12)

^Yeah been passed for quite awhile now haha

MrFuzzy

iTrader: (1)

Yah thats one of the first laws he passed at governator when he was elected way back when.

SERIES7

stfu!

TheAbsence

iTrader: (19)

So whats the smog exemption rule now?

You should have brought up the point that you wanted to convert your automobile's exhaust to a catalytic converter and remove the thermal reactor so as to "improve fuel efficiency and improve exhaust emissions", however you cannot because you will fail the visual inspection when it is time to get the car smogged.

May or may not be true, but they won't know.

Siraniko

iTrader: (13)

Again, its 75 and below to be smog exempt .