farewell

Stefano

My heart breaks with the stories of your difficulties in refreshing your car and getting it imported back into the U.S. and certified in California.

I remember when you bought it and the excitement that you had when you commissioned the work to be done to make the car everything that you wanted it to be. I am so sorry that your first Ferrari plans didn't work out and hope that someday soon you have another Ferrari experience that will be as uplifting and fun as this one was disappointing.

 

Sorry that it didn't work out, Stefano. Perhaps you can get another one that is already in CA some time...

Nice video - your car was a beauty.

Aidan

 

I'm sorry California's absurd emissions regulations caused you so much trouble and expense. Imagine, a car which can in fact pass the sniffer test, which will be driven not as much as 5,000 miles per year, to be denied registration because it could not pass that sealed room hocus pocus. The difference in actual regional air quality between a passing car and a failing car has got to be unmeasurably infinitesimal, basically on the molecular level. The jack-booted thugs at CARB are no different than the medieval inquisitors with their test for witches, that they'd dunk them underwater and if they drowned then they were exonerated. When I first got my '83 400i last February, and its 90-day temporary use permit expired before I could get a passing sniffer test, I always had the worry when I drove it that any given cop could notice the expired plate and call for a tow and impound. I anticipated that such an impound would then make it impossible for me to do anything more about passing the test and that at that point my only option to be to sell the car out of state, before the total of the daily impound fees had exceeded the car's eBay re-sale value. I did manage to pass and get the car registered, but it took three months of tinkering. Yet at no time did my car's test results exceed any parameter by 50%. That is, my car was emitting no more than 1.5 cars of the same model year. And I am sure that I will never drive the car even one-half of the average annual mileage of other '83s that are still on the road. Does this even enter into the calculation? No, of course not. Not when you're dealing with CARB, and statist-greenists in general.

 

that car is beautiful...what a shame it's leaving an owner with so much passion.

sorry Stef,

brett

 

Stef finally let it go


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Heartliy agree.
Seems an alternate registration venue would be an easier alternative.