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Date:         Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:38:37 -0700
Reply-To:     David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         David Kao <dtkao0205@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Tristar legal finally!
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Congrats! I don't know what was the problem for you to get it sooner but I can understand that it can be a PIA being in California. Each time I had smog check for my Vanagons the smog check technician was always like trying to catch a thief when inspecting the engine compartment. Sometimes they even dug out their repair books trying to identify a smog component as a non original equipment. Of course they never succeeded it. And my vanagons always passed the smog check.

I once bought a BMW 2002 with a valid California registration. But I was never able to get it registered in my own name because of the tough California emission regulations. The 2002 had an after market carbureter system. I had no idea what the original equipment look like and had no idea how to restore everything back together to pass a smog check. Visited referee stations many times with no success. Eventually I donated it to charity and got a tax write off. I did get a taste to drive it at 80+ MPH before giving it up though. Guess what, that was probably 15 years ago. It was my first time to reach more than 80 MPH on a car I owned. A faded dream of owning a BMW classic.

David

--- Kim Springer <kimspringer@RCN.COM> wrote:

> It's been 3 years since my Tristar set down on California soil, and today, after a ton of work, > (and money I might add), the pink slip was in the mail. > > I do have to admit that it was sort of anticlimactic. It reminded me of getting my college > diploma in the mail, months after my actual graduation. > > Anyway, that phase is done, and it's on to more complicated things like keeping it running. > > Kim > '88 Tristar #7 >

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