Boy ! What a Hoot!,
Coddinton new it was illegal to register all those cars the way he did. Everybody out there in the Streed rod and Kit car world knows it too so I really can't see the benefit of Boyd running around talking to a bunch a guys that already know it's wrong.
The real problem is the beaurocratic crap that each state has that makes it near impossible to get a title.This is why guys run around looking for another method to title their creations illegally or otherwise. When the government finally realizes that this is not a bunch of jolopys running around polluting, it's a multi-Million dollar business that effects the economy and the industry. If you don't think so then attend one S.E.M.A. show and that will graphically get the point across. SEMA has a program that they have gotten intituted in several states for titling and registering Rods and Kits. They have offered it to California but I an not sure if they were taken up on it. I hope they do. You can ask SEMA for this info and I'm sure they can send it to you.
If you want to tak bucks for what car guys spend on there hobbies then it's huge but if you want to talk Car population then we are but a small part of all the vehicles that run around today. I would say that hobbist like Rodders and Kits are less that 2 or 3% of the total. I hardly think this number of cars can cause the emmisions that will bring the earth to a screeching halt.
Most people don't realize that when Mount St Helens erupted it spewed more canaminates into the atmosphere than all of man did since the start of the industrial age.
Emmisions testing on cars today is nothing more than revenue generation. Most all of the old dinasaurs have been crushed and the ones that are left don't get driven very often or they have been updated with electronic technology.
OK, all done, I'm putting the soap box away.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Hersh /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif