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:

[JeffBowlsby]

There must be some other CA law here that overlaps the 75-76 model years. In CA, 75 914s are exempt from bi-annual smog testing, but 76 model year cars are not exempt. This requirement is not exclusive to 914s.

Considering the effects in hindsight at this point in time, P should not have marketed the 76 cars. We’d be better off if they had just extended the production as 75 model year cars but maybe there were other laws that prevented that. No 76 model year 914s were sold to Europe.

[wonkipop]

There must be some other CA law here that overlaps the 75-76 model years. In CA, 75 914s are exempt from bi-annual smog testing, but 76 model year cars are not exempt. This requirement is not exclusive to 914s.

Considering the effects in hindsight at this point in time, P should not have marketed the 76 cars. We’d be better off if they had just extended the production as 75 model year cars but maybe there were other laws that prevented that. No 76 model year 914s were sold to Europe.

yes.

but i guess no one was really thinking about a situation 50 years down the track with californian legislators. the truth is the cars should be exempt as historic vehicles.
its not like there are thousands of them running around spewing out hydrocarbons.
they only get driven on weekends for the most parts for anachronistic pleasure.

its the legislators at present who are being plain silly?

EDIT
i should add that technically speaking california arrived at the jan 1 1976 deadline in MY 75. so technically speaking a 76 car is a repeat of the 75 car (any model) when it comes to california. and they stay that way pretty much until 1980. there are some small revisions to exhaust emissions but nothing much changes until 1980. the reason for that is the EPA know the next step is closed loop systems. that required O2 sensors and there were none until Bosch finally cracked them in late 70s and we could get there - feedback systems allowed them to go the next step in emissions reductions. so really if they are letting you drive a 75 "un-monitored and un-smogged" in california they should be letting you drive anything pretty much from 75 to 80. thats how i understand it. so its a strange boundary for california to pick.

its only the rest of the USA where a 75 does not equal a 76MY. 76 MY or post jan 1 1976 where the cat becomes mandatory. and its only really the 76 914 for rest of USA that is exploiting the loophole to be manufactured and sold when it was.
yet it seems the rest of the USA doesn't give 2 F#$%s so to speak about a 76 50 years later.

ironic.

[JORACER#40]

If you live in CA DO NOT purchase a 76 914 I am going through hell to get mine smog. I would find another year 914 but I have owned mine since the 80s.

[wonkipop]

If you live in CA DO NOT purchase a 76 914 I am going through hell to get mine smog. I would find another year 914 but I have owned mine since the 80s.

so how does that work then.
if it was originally a california car its got to stay californian conforming for 76?

but if its not originally a californian car then now, 50 years later, you can bring a 49 state car in and so long as its still 49 state car conforming it only has to conform to that, not california standards of 76?

forgive me for asking as a dumb aussie, but i did go through a similar trauma 30+ years ago bring my 914 back from the USA into AUS. and it was pretty nuts and a very petty process. which was an utter joke given that AUS design rules of 74 were a long long way behind the USA. fortunately one of the guys in the state registration authority who knew his stuff and wasn't just a petty idiot stepped in.