CHP gives cliff a smog ticket for his teener Options

[Chris Hamilton]

Has a 2.0 with webers. Sounds like some kind of fixit ticket. Do 1971 teeners have to smog? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) How would a six ever smog since those came with carbs too?

Do we have any california law experts here to explain this?

[Cap'n Krusty]

In general, the CHP has nothing to do with smog enforcement, nor the emissions laws themselves. Any time you get a ticket relating to smog equipment, it's usually triggered by excessive smoke, a demonstration of your car's HP, noise, or acceleration/speed attributes, or you pissed the cop off. At that point, you may have aroused an interest in the history of your car, your engine, the condition of your brakes, lights, horn, ride height, tires, or your driving record. This can occasionally rise to gargantuan and truly annoying proportions, involving the BAR, the CHP auto theft division, the DMV, and the EPA people. Might not be in your best interests to display behavior and/or attitude to draw this kind of attention.

Unless, of course, you ride a Harley, where being loud and annoying is 110% (actually, 150%) American, and consequently exempt from the rules.

The Cap'n, trying to have a nice weekend despite the invasion of thousands of Harleys for some kind of obnoxiousfest.