1976 Is it a 49 state or Cali car? Options

[gnomefabtech]

Car came from Nevada but I can't tell if it was originally a California car. It still has injection but doesn't have a cat or smog pump. Doesn't look like it ever had either but I'm wondering since I'm going to try and register it here in California. Thanks in advance!!

Here is the Vin:

[wonkipop]

@type47 fan

not what jeff is talking about.
jeff and i are talking about the 49 state cars.
i had not realised the 76 49 state cars did not have a cat.
as everything was required to have a cat by 76 MY usa wide.


........so how come a 76 914 got away without one?

jeff's asking for proof about my statement that they slip through the net because they stop production in dec 75.

the summary version is the clean air act by nixon administration in 1970 is a way bigger act than vehicle emission regulation. the act is not written in model year terms.
model years are an automaker convention. the act has a date on it. 1975 period.

it was the auto makers who negotiated with the USEPA in terms of model years.
thats how automakers introduced styling changes and more importantly major engineering changes.

jeff wants the date of the act.
he may not think so.
but thats what he is asking for.
i'll find it again.

its the clean air act by the nixon administration.
it was passed in 1970.


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am well aware that everything in california has a cat from 75 MY on.

am also aware that everything in the USA wide was supposed to have a cat from 76 MY on. (ie from fall 75). thats how the USEPA and CARB implemented the clean air act via the auto makers. they staggered it from 73 on. to stage the introduction of the tech and assist with the scale of the implementation. cal first, then rest of USA following year.

for insight into this one of the surprises was that Ford achieved fitting of cats to all models, USA wide by the end of the 75 MY. slightly ahead of schedule.
the other two of the big three did not make it until the start of the 76 MY.

and it turns out porsche did not make it at all when it came to a 76 914 49 states.
interesting little duck and weave by the germans if you ask me.
they don't have to? they end the car in 75? same time as the act has the final deadline.
which is actually a year. not a specific day. the act had a bit of lattitude in that sense.

if they hadn't ducked and weaved, and you owned a 76 914 49 state car and it was still intact with pollution gear - it would have conformed to californian standards. thats the year that the emissions standards come into conformity USA wide. that was the EPA big plan.