DeTomaso Mailing List: October 97, Message #212
     



From: 	JDeRyke@aol.com

Subject: re: SB-42 stuff

Date: 	Wed, 8 Oct 1997 20:35:39 +0000



Mike, you persist in trying to use logic in matters of law & politicians

where it does not apply. If this keeps up, we may need to recommend remedial

political science courses! OK, short words only: the legislature does not

care if cars were made in Jan or in Dec of a given year. They do require the

car to be AT LEAST 25 years old. They do this by requiring them to have been

made the previous year to the cutoff. Thus a '73 will be AT LEAST 25 years

old Jan 1 of 2004. This is how the original Smog law (with a cutoff at 1965)

was rigged back when you were still discoloring your undies with strained

carrots. I will be vastly surprised if they give us a break on the '73s since

they specifically amended the original bill to insert the new dates, thus

allowing them to make a buck on the cars being exempted. Remember: there's

counting, and there's lawyers counting. J DeRyke