I spoke on the phone this morning with "Joe" from the DMV.
This is the same guy I talked to last week about emissions testing. He spoke t o his supervisor, and it looks like the whole project is going in the right direction.
Joe already lifted my "can't drive the car because it hasn't passed emissions yet" status for a couple of weeks while we get this taken care of.
We did a three-way call to "Ken" at the super-secret technical testing facility - still in an undisclosed location. Ken was not at his phone, so we left a very fancy voicemail message for him, but Ken and Joe had already talked about my project.
It looks like they are doing to have me bring the car in to the super-secret test center, and mostly JUST DOCUMENT IT. Take a few pictures, see that it actually does run on just electricity etc.
I think the idea here is that they ARE going to give me a simple exemption from emissions testing, as long as they have lots of evidence of WHY they did it to back it up.
I think it's still going to the C.Y.A. approach, but sounds like it should be no problem for me to get totally legal, I just still have to get through to the guy to make an appointment!
