DeTomaso Mailing List: March 1997, Message #82
     



From: "Steve Liebenow" <steve.liebenow@eur.ericsson.com>

Subject: Crushing and blue & gold pl

Date: 10 Mar 1997 08:26:59 -0800



To whom:



Crushing: don't want to go there.

Smog 2: Don't want to go there either.

Amazing how these little issues can raise your blood pressure!  Makes =

me want to spit....  As former president of a local car club, I've been =

dealing with this system for some time, and it only gets me aggitated =

every time it pokes it's ugly little head up.... three tons my =

posterior.....!!!



Saw a possible solution to "our" little problems this weekend at a =

local Mustang shop.  Here was a '67 Mustang, pumped to the hilt, with =

nary a smog worry. How, you may ask, does the owner get away with this?

Answer: Historical plates.



Yes I know, you have to surrender your blue and gold's, and you can =

only put 3500 miles on annually....  but how many of you clock that many =

in reality?  Ever heard about driving on the tach?? Those speedo couplers =

are so easy to get to on the ZF's....

I never said it was pretty, but it is a solution.  Do you run the =

webers or the blue & gold plates....? For some this will be a no =

brainer....

The kink is this: how many Panteras were imported into California?? Not =

the US, but CA?  If this number is less than 2000 (per year??), I guess =

that you qualify, plus a 25 year old clause, would put the 71-72 owners =

in. However, there will have to be some documentation to prove the =

2000/CA numbers. Was any of this documented by Lincoln-Mercury? or can a =

search by VIN# be done and tell what the story is that way??

If this guy can get a generic Mustang to qualify, I can't imagine why =

the DeTomaso's wouldn't qualify either.

Then run what-ever-the-hell-you-want!! And it's all legal.... until =

some piss ant bastard decides that it looks like you're having too much =

fun.... or producing too much smog... aack!

Steve