Hi Rick, I moved to California in 1986 about the time that was being discussed. The law had allowed any 49 state car that passed smog to be resistered in the state. Some wanted to require all 49 state cars to be upgraded to California standards. The big secrete was that except for the sticker the cars were mechanically identical, and it wasn't about emissions anyway, it was about state sales tax. More about that later. Anyway, California was/is something like 20% of the new car market in the US. Everybody knew than, that the California type requirements were comming to places like New York, Texas, and other populated states (or areas of them) that were not in compliance with the Federal ambiant air quality standards. Lets call it maby 70% of the new car market. It would have cost more to manufacture a different car for the other 30%, so that is what most manufactures did, only made 1 version. When I moved here I had a 1985 Nissan PU that breezed through the smog test. I drove it till 2000 when it burned a valve, and it still passed. Finally I was able to "tune" it up enough to fail and I sold it, as a gross polluter, to the local air district for $1000. Anyway, back to what you were talking about, upgrades for 49 state cars was about sales tax. We could(and still can) go to a state that was lower or no sales tax, buy it and lic it in that state and drive it for a year and register it in CA as a used car. That i what they were tryong to stop. That was also the way to buy a 2 cycle motor cycle when they were no longer avaliable in CA.
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