<VV> Va inspections a good deal and old car house bill

[mhicks130 at cox.net]

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 But then again, taxes on a 
> regular registration vehicle that's ten years old or more aren't very 
> much at all, thanks to Gov Gilmore.
> 
> So, the rant over antique vehicles is about something else, unless of 
> course the sponsors of the proposal are simply elitist jerks looking 
> for every dime they can find anywhere.

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The property taxes for your typical Corvair would be low but how my convertible Hemi Cuda?  Those babies go for $2million a pop.  I think the Commonwealth might want to get a buck or 2 from me on one of those.  I don't know if the sponsors of this stuff are elitists or not but I think the impetus for this legislatioin is just because people drive down the road and see some yahoo in a beat up old truck with antique plates and get all pee'd off and write to their rep.  I feel the same way about all the Independent Dealer plated cars I see driving down the road.
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> >And it turns out, for a while a cop couldn't get owner information 
> >from calling in antique plates due to a snafu at the DMV computer system.
> 
> 
> Must have been a local situation...  for a while I was getting 
> stopped at least once or twice a month for not having an inspection 
> sticker or a city sticker on the 'Vairs.   Seems the police hadn't 
> bothered to get current with the regs.   Antique vehicles in VA 
> aren't required to be inspected and since they're tax exempt, they 
> don't have to display a city sticker which is actually nothing but a 
> tax stamp.
>

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I got pulled over 3 times by the same guy in York County, 2 times after showing him the printout of the law.  He knew what the law actually says, he just wanted to bully people into not getting antique plates.  For reasons known only to him.
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> 
> >Supposedly that's been fixed but for a while, some of societie's 
> >questionable people were using this to aid in their illegal activities.
> 
> 
> ...this is a reason to, at this time, try to jerk car hobbyists 
> around?   Seems the majority of the errors in the system have been 
> weeded out by now.
> 

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No it's not.  But that won't stop our helpful legislators from trying.
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> 
> Here's hoping the vintage vehicle laws remain the same, 
> unchanged.    And common sense should demonstrate what is and is not 
> a bona fide antique vehicle, and a 25 year old ragged-out Caprice is not.
> 

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There's nothing in the current law that would change that.  There's nothing in the proposed law that would prevent either.  But it would make it so you'd have to prove you had another car for daily transportation.  It won't keep you from using the Caprice for daily transport but it's an improvement over the current situation.  It would help keep people from having an antique plated vehicle as their only vehicle.    
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