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Originally posted by Guy Chiattello
MikeZ, The car is street legal in CA because it has a 1970's style VW engine so doesn't fall under current rules.
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Bzzzt, wrong answer. If it's a tube frame and a new manufacture you have to smog to the current CA emission standards.
A lot of the replica manufacturers get around it by using a VW pan that is pre 76 and registering it as that year.
I do smog rules for a living....I just registered a new home built 356...I have one of the 500 coveted exemptions...
Unless you have a pre 76 pan....OR....one of the 500 exemptions that are given per year via DMV....that car CAN NOT be registered with THAT engine.