Seriously? What the hell?
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That is not selective enforcement, as I am sure you know, as it is based on the evidence of a commission of an illegal act. Selecting a group of certain people to "check" to see if they broke a particular law (because "we all know those people do that"), on the other hand, is.
#230
Yes, I believe that we are going to have to agree to disagree.
I see the law, as I read it, as full of holes.....my interpretation et al. But the part about having to go tell the DMV if you change your motor is crap anyway. Do dealers do that when they change an engine under warranty? Do you?? I'd venture a pretty educated guess that there will be very few instances where this takes place.
Come to think of it, since there is no place on my registration for my motor ID number to be on it, how would they now what the proper number is?? Or was?
And we will all probably have to agree to disagree on the selective enforcement issue as well. There are those of us who think it is, and those of us who don't.
We are all obviously opinionated on this subject, and for some it is very close to home (right or wrong).
I see the law, as I read it, as full of holes.....my interpretation et al. But the part about having to go tell the DMV if you change your motor is crap anyway. Do dealers do that when they change an engine under warranty? Do you?? I'd venture a pretty educated guess that there will be very few instances where this takes place.
Come to think of it, since there is no place on my registration for my motor ID number to be on it, how would they now what the proper number is?? Or was?
And we will all probably have to agree to disagree on the selective enforcement issue as well. There are those of us who think it is, and those of us who don't.
We are all obviously opinionated on this subject, and for some it is very close to home (right or wrong).
#231
I came from San Diego. In or about 1998 I had considered an engine swap, was going to put a 350 into my Astro to replace the 4.3 liter v6. I did a quick search on the internet and found out exactly what I had to do in order to legally change my engine.
This from a young man then about 23 years old, with nothing other than Google at his side. I find it hard to believe that people living in California would believe it was legal to swap engines without telling anyone (emissions etc...). Would I be wrong to assume most of these engines were not the same type of engine originally in the vehicle???
This from a young man then about 23 years old, with nothing other than Google at his side. I find it hard to believe that people living in California would believe it was legal to swap engines without telling anyone (emissions etc...). Would I be wrong to assume most of these engines were not the same type of engine originally in the vehicle???
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I'm thinkin' that the practice of engine swapping without need to inform anyone started long before the California lead/mandated "we're gonna save the world from breathing nasties or die trying" came into effect.
It was pretty common to swap engines/transmissions/diffs whenever yours wore out. Just buy a good used or rebuilt, a six-pack, grab a couple of friends and make a weekend of it. Come Monday, woot!, new car. No paperwork, no forms, no fees.
Old habits die hard, and are the first things passed on.
Do it now, go to jail. Yeah, I know, the state is protecting me from bad guys selling me a stolen engine, but ya know, there's only so much 'protection' I can take, then it starts to smother. IMO.
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It was pretty common to swap engines/transmissions/diffs whenever yours wore out. Just buy a good used or rebuilt, a six-pack, grab a couple of friends and make a weekend of it. Come Monday, woot!, new car. No paperwork, no forms, no fees.
Old habits die hard, and are the first things passed on.
Do it now, go to jail. Yeah, I know, the state is protecting me from bad guys selling me a stolen engine, but ya know, there's only so much 'protection' I can take, then it starts to smother. IMO.
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...just be glad you don't live in NYC, where the cops have been rounding up cyclists (the kind with pedals) for riding in a group on public streets without a permit. Talk about a waste of resources! NYC is considered the #1 target of terrorists worldwide, and they're busy confiscating our Schwinns!
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skip - sorry to be a stickler, but the Bern Franklin quotation has been mangled for many years. Here's the original version and citation:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
#235
So, your argument still holds as much water as a strainer.
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skip - sorry to be a stickler, but the Bern Franklin quotation has been mangled for many years. Here's the original version and citation:
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
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But I agree with the other posters, it sucks that there are some mind-numbingly stupid cops that make the intelligent and fair ones look bad.
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