As one who closely follows automotive legislation regarding classic or
antique cars in California I would be very interested to know if under PA
laws exemption from state inspection includes exemption from emissions
testing. In California there is no inspection other than the biannual
emissions test (which is quite strict and now includes a fuel vapor loss
test). All cars back to 1976 model year are subject to test. IIRC cars
newer than 4 years are exempted. A revision to the law is pending in
Sacramento that would require annual versus biannual testing for all cars
over 15 years old back to 1976 model year. Assembly Bill 859. The costs of
the test run from $50 to $80.
John Quilter
Brisbane, California
1951 MGTD
1960 Morris Minor
1969 Austin America
1965 Jaguar 3.8S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Baldwin" <mgcharlie@comcast.net>
To: "Ed's Shop" <shop@justbrits.com>; "T series list" <mg-t@autox.team.net>;
"healey list" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Mg-t] New PA legislation !!! FYI & FWIW
> Ed,
> That is good news, but in PA "classic cars" are defined as 15 years or
> older. "Antique cars" at 25 years or older, never did need to be
> inspected. Pictures are required to get a car registered as an antique
> and no state inspection is required after that. My daily driver Subaru
> Alpine Sport wagon is 15 years old and I don't intend to put classic
> tags on it because then the mileage will be limited.
> Nowadays a 15 year old car doesn't really seem that old. My TD was 18
> years old when I bought it and seemed to be so far from a modern car,
> even in 1970. My tricarb Healey was only 11 years old when I bought it
> in '73 and again seemed ancient compared to the current cars. I have an
> '85 RX7 also and even though it will be an "antique" next year, it could
> easily be an everyday car today. I guess the Brits were a bit behind
> the times.
> Hard to believe in the current climate that the gov't would be letting
> up on regs for cars.
> Charlie
>
> Ed's Shop wrote:
> > >From SEMA & for ALL Penseltuckians!!!
> >
> > Pennsylvania HB 1172: Classic vehicles would be exempt from needing a
> > certificate of inspection before being registered.
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