RE: MOT Time...

["Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>]

Pennsylvania had a REAL RACKET going some years back.  Your car had to be
inspected TWICE per year by a "certified garage".  (That came about as close
as you can to a state issued "license to steal" from the public.)  In
contrast when we lived in Ohio the inspection was nothing more than
verifying the VIN to make sure the car wasn't stolen.  When we lived in
Michigan there was no inspection of any kind unless you lived near a big
city like Detroit.  Many years ago Florida had a fairly stringent safety
inspection but it was done away with after about 10 years because data
showed that there was no significant reduction in accidents or accident
caused deaths as a result of the inspections.

Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)


-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou
[mailto:dougnad@bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 4:11 AM
To: Richard B Gosling; sdspitfire; spitfires
Subject: Re: MOT Time...



It sounds like rust is the biggest heartbreaker in these MOT tests.
Cars must rust a lot in the UK.  At one point Pennsylvania had
a fairly strict inspection, where holes rusted through the bodywork
would make the car fail.  I remember hearing stories of people doing dubious
things to their cars, Bondo-wise, to get them to pass.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit