Fortunately, they will be doing away with this stupid and inefficient
emmission test in So. Florida as of July 1!!!
Unfortunately, my birthday is this week so I have to get all of the cars
inspected anyway.
Larry Miceli
Pompano Beach, Florida
Gold Coast Triumph Club
'73 Stag * '66 Herald * '69 Jaguar XKE FHC
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:35:37 -0500 "Chad & Ariane Jester"
<ajester@kscable.com> writes:
>
> Craig and LIST,
>
> Even better is the first time I took the car (Craig bought the car
> from me)
> through the Florida "sniffer" test and they wouldn't test it because
> it
> didn't have catalytic converters installed!!!!!! They use a mirror
> mounted
> on wheels to look under your car for the cats. Anyhow. I argued
> with the
> inspector for about 5 min....then showed him the sticker in the
> drivers door
> jam that says "NON-CATALYST". He then went to get his supervisor
> who
> proceded to tell me I'd violated some obscure law by printing and
> installing
> that "illegal" decal. After about two hours of argument and finally
> convincing them to look in their dust-covered manuals for
> information about
> the car, they found that indeed '75 and '76 TR6's are NON-CATALYST
> as the
> decal reads!!!! DUH!!!!!!!
>
> Long live government!!!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Chad Jester
>
> Proud owner ( once again ) of a '79 Dodge Little Red Truck as of
> 0817 this
> morning!!!!!!!
>
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