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Originally Posted by Wonderboy
Sometimes is right. I think the reason things like this can slip through is that it isn't on the bureaucratic inspection checklist. You could have the wildest looking car with no metal reinforcement used at all, dead babies, endangered species, contraband, etc. under the hood, but as soon as your power steering pump belt is missing, you fail. Everything else the inspector saw had might as well not ever existed.
As awful and pervasive that mindset of total lack of responsibility and lateral thinking is, sometimes it works to an advantage. There wouldn't be an EM without it. Which makes me wonder what the world would be like if EVERYTHING were engineered to peak efficiency. What would my life be like if most of my time wasn't spent thinking about counter-acting things that don't work as well as they should...
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As I understand, in Japan, you must take your car to the dealer to have any work done to it, and they don't allow cars older than some number of years on the road. This is why engines are so cheap from Japan, they are forced to "recycle" them after a short time.
I'm not sure what is not legal with my car. Older jeeps don't even have doors, seat belts were not even required until 1973 (this is a 1971).
I lived in Massachusetts for a while, and they do relatively thorough safety inspections because of rust issues. Here in California, it's all about SMOG, but a pre-1976 car is exempt from this testing.
When I lived in Florida, they seem to care less what you did to your cars!
What till you see my rear brakes..
I think EV's are really going to open up hotrodding again because of no smog rules.