[Geary]

I was recently told that California now requires a recent smog (90 days) before you're even allowed to register your car in another state. Unbelievable.

At least the testing isn't as stringent in Truckee as it was in Auburn. After 10 years of no problems, my old smog guy wouldn't even test me (a couple years back). He tried to force me to visit a BAR station for my smog, where BAR would have forced me to retrofit a stock SVX exhaust system on my SVX Syncro Vanagon. Apparently, BAR now presents further hurdles in order to retain your BAR sticker.