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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
A braless, topless range. Now there's an idea that needs exploitation.
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Matt_G
Curmudgeon in training
Lords knows we wouldn't want to get off subject in a thread called Thread Drift.
(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
CWLONGSHOT
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
I know two professional mechanics who retired and walked away from their boxes because they still owed on them.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
These two guys started in the early 1970’s. They had to keep updating from points to computers. SAE to metric sizes. They quit wrenching and spent the last working years doing smug tests for the state.
L Ross
Well-Known Member
If our mechanics did smug tests in our State they would get to be wealthy in Madison.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
For over 25 years, if you lived in one of the urban areas, you had to have your car tested for pollution at a state facility before you could get a new annual license. In 1996 I bought a new F-150 and had to have it tested ($35) before I could by license plates ($550) the first time even though I lived in a rural area.
Winelover
North Central Arkansas
Michigan tried a smog testing, years ago. Didn't last long. Too may ways for the hoopties to get around it. IE, if the cost of the repair more than the hooptie was worth. Other Eastern states had stricter laws. Couldn't license a hooptie..............that had fenders held on with baling wire.
Mitty38
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Ohio it depends on the county you live in. I am lucky to live in a rual area, so no smog test.
My plates are about 50 bucks per vehicle every birthday. Fee rate also depends on county road taxes, so plate prices differ per county.
It is also pro rated for new plates on a new vehicle
Transfer fee to another vehicle after you sell the plated one, is around 10 bucks.
We can get 30 60 or90 day tags if we buy a vehicle we are not knowing we will keep, or paper work- title is held up for some reason, but those must be got before you title it.
My plates are about 50 bucks per vehicle every birthday. Fee rate also depends on county road taxes, so plate prices differ per county.
It is also pro rated for new plates on a new vehicle
Transfer fee to another vehicle after you sell the plated one, is around 10 bucks.
We can get 30 60 or90 day tags if we buy a vehicle we are not knowing we will keep, or paper work- title is held up for some reason, but those must be got before you title it.
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
No the plates were $550 each year. In 1998 the voters pasted a $30 a year tab. However the state Supreme Court threw it out. But it got over 75% yes votes and the legislature reduced it in 1999. However, they let cities and counties added surcharges for car tabs. Mine are about $90 a year for ferry's, buses and light rail even though they are not available to me.
