And don't get me wrong here guys, every car that I drive that is
required by law to be smogged I get smogged. All my cars eventually
pass. I never cheat, and I never drive a vehicle illegally. I have
a '76 Pontiac Lemans with a 350 and a quadrajet, a '79 BMW 320i and
the two Mi16s.
The Pontiac is always really clean, but the BMW is my biggest
problem. It's from back in the 49 state and California car days, and
we've owned it since new. That poor little thing has NEVER run right
despite many many attempts to fix it. I think the smog controls on
that thing work TOO well because they foul up the engine so bad it
barely runs and I just leave it at home!
For a while, we had a rolling 30 year exemption that was very fair.
That means that this year vehicles 1978 and older would be exempt
this year, and my BMW would next year. My plan was to wait for that,
and put a little Weber carb on it and finally make it run properly.
But now the rules are 1976 and newer, and that to me is the the
biggest "nonsense" that I've referred to. As a percentage of ALL
pollution generated, what is put out by cars made from '76 to '78,
cars that would have been exempt? You probably couldn't even measure
it. Is it really worth the hassle and expense to test these cars
when the same effort could go to improving air quality in other
ways?
Received on Tue Feb 26 15:48:26 2008
