Date:         Sun, 25 Aug 2002 14:48:59 -0400
Reply-To:     SpaceKommander <jboldway@BEE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         SpaceKommander <jboldway@BEE.NET>
Subject:      inspection worries redux
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>I hope you end up behind bars for a long long time.

YOU have never gone over the speed limit? Speeding is illegal. Ever have a
garage sale? Did you check to see if you need to get a permit from the
town? Did you report the profits on your 1040? Ever get a monetary gift
from your parents? I'm sure you followed the law and reported that on your
1040 also, right? - by law you have to.
Don't be so sanctimonious. I mentioned I kept the vehicles insured so in
the event of an accident that was my fault (almost 25 years of driving with
none yet) the other person would be covered. There was no such thing as
emission inspection when I started driving. I'm angry that the laws are so
restrictive regarding emission/inspection that many people now drive an
unregistered (and because of that an un-insured thanks to the morons in
government reporting it to the insurance companies) vehicle. I was hit by
somebody with an uninsured vehicle - I had to shell out a $1000 deductible
because the other driver was un-insured thanks to failing emissions and
having the registration canceled and then reported to insurance company -
who then canceled their policy. They smashed up the front of my new
Cadillac DeVille. I'm just saying that if you get a .09 reading on some
emissions thing when it should be .08 and don't have the money to spend a
fortune on your car - what's the big deal? All the driving you do from
repair shop to repair shop to reduce the level from .09 to .08 probably
causes more pollution . . . .  So long as you can drive a inusred safe car
that's all that matters to me.

The idiots in MA would not let me register my 80 Dodge Aspen because I had
souped up the engine and it did not have the stock "parts." They even
physically tried to prevent me from driving my car out of their shop (they
failed) because I did not have a catalytic converter (safety fail on
inspection).
It passed emissions with flying colours but they failed it because of
"modified components" and a safety failure because it did not have a
catalytic converter. So, I drove it un-registered but insured for two
years. If you can get insurance on the car and drive it un-registered or
un-inspected for emissions that's OK by me. What harm to the world does
that do? Oooooh I'm not following the law . . . bad bad boy.
We had some idiot on the list mention how he was going to get a rabbit or
something like that and then "wreck it" so he could collect insurance and
then buy it back to get the motor. Or people describing insurance fraud
(I've seen a few of these described on list). This hurts everybody. There's
a big difference between driving an unregistered (but insured) car and
insurance fraud. Think for a change . . . what causes what?