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Lavan

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I live in Kalifornia. I have an 86 Subaru that I have had since new. Maintained immaculately and used daily for our get around car. Other car is a Mercedes and the Subaru is a better car.
Well, the other day it failed the Kalif smog test. KKKali has a program where the state (read taxpayers) pays $500 to fix it. Yep, you guessed it. So far the repairs are $640 which isn't surprising since the state also tells you where you have to have it fixed.
And the "wondershop" that has it still can't pinpoint the problem.
This car runs perfectly, 30MPG, and any of you could drive it coast to coast with no problems.
Now, the only option left is the OTHER state program that "retires" (read crushes) the car. The program gives you $1000 for the car. Well, other than the fact that this car is so dependable and clean, that is more than it is worth. But the program only requires that the car arrive at the death camp under its own power, be able to travel 30 feet in reverse and have an intact windshield.
Betcha have guessed where this is going. I ain't about to have that nice lil car "donated" to Kalifornia as nice as it is.
Sooooo....I think I will have a weekend shoot. Mebbe also a weekend "beat and cut."
See if I can wear out a gun, a knife, and a sledge hammer and still have an intact windshield.
Excuse the length of this post, but this is one crappy state.
 
Oh, I guess that that would work also. I was thinking more along the lines of loading a Southern Ca. blonde into it. :)

Could you sell it out of state? Perhaps to one of the many Ca. inmates who now have a Nevada address to hide their eeeevil black rifles at.

Greg
 
Can't you sell it to someone who is out of state? What is the market value?

If not that, hell, STRIP that sucker - Everything but the engine, the tranny, the wheels and the windshield.
 
Lavan,
That sounds like a Fourth Amendment issue to me. But then, I'm a radical.... ;)

Is the Subaru dealer the "wondershop"? (Just curious...)
 
Dearest Lavan,

I live in Denver. Every year for the past three years, a man down in Colorado Springs who owns a shooting range and military vehicle museum puts on a Veterans day salute. This year, it's on November 18th (I think). The finale is he blows up two or three junker cars. I promise that about two sticks of dynamite does wonders. Of course, you won't have a front windshield left.

Prior to blowing them up, he peppers them liberally with several fifty calibers. He has a Suzuki Samari that he cut the roof off of and mounted twin fifties in the rear and a thirty caliber up front. When he rolls that sucker on the range, he has a tape playing of the song "BAD BOYS.....". He then proceeds to rip up one or two cars with that twin fifty.

Consider that. Or, write me an email and I'll get you in touch with Mel (Dragonman). He would probably give you SOMETHING for that Subaru. Or, just drive here to Co and sell it. I bet it would pass emissions here.
 
Lavan - I'm looking to build a rally car.
If your car is that good - it might be an option.
Email me a pic of the car... or another car like it.
In Utah - I dont have to worry about SMOG.
I may be able to give you a better offer for it.
 
Every time I think I've heard all of the crap that goes on in the PRK another one comes around. Sorry you have to put up with that sh1t man.
 
Let me tell u I am not a happy camper over this. George, I sent u an email about the car. This Kalifornia Krap never stops.
The car passed every prior smog test. Reason it doesn't pass now is that the state (term used loosely) is ratcheting down the allowable emissions each year so they can force EVERYONE to fail until we knuckle under to friggin electrics that the bastards claim are pollution free.
Course they never mention how much fuel it takes to run a power generating station to make the electricity to charge the batteries.

If any of you know any real idiots or just plain crooked bastards, tell em to come out here. We will elect them to be our "leaders."

I wish Kalifornia would have free lobotomies so I could go get one and return to liking the place.

I was born here and boy, it aint wot it was.
 
Whoa!
Wait a minute! I've an 86 Subaru too.
I need a right-side headlamp assembly.
Make it BOTH sides, just in case.
And a gas fill door (mine is sprung)
and a rear window wiper
and driver's door inside armrest
and maybe tail light assemblies
since I've been hard on them over the years.

and a maybe a bunch of other pieces & parts.

I'm serious!

Better yet, pack up that Subaru and come to Colorado - permanentlike. If you decide to go back, I'll buy the Subaru for $500 or preferably the equivalent in ammo or silver since I need the cash.


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If the car still runs like a Timex, I'd get a second opinion from a non-state associated repair shop on what the problem could be and get it fixed.

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- Ron V.
 
That's better than Illinois' program. They fail your vehicle. They make you get it repaired even though nothing is wrong with it. YOU pay all of the repair bill. During testing, if they ride it too hard on the dyno, you are out one car with no compensation. If the car is beyond a repair that would meet their standards, you can either sell it to some poor soul or risk driving with a suspended driver lisence. And you think Postal workers snap? I think a citizen of a Socialist state is more apt to.
 
PreserveFreedom,

Where did you get that about Illinois? All they do is stick a sensor on your hood, and a probe up the tailpipe, and tell you to step on the gas until the light on the wall lights up. They also put a mirror under the car to check for a catylitic converter. There are no dyno's involved. If you fail, you have a period of time to get it back for inspection. I even had an older car that I had stripped of all of the emmisions crap. All I did before I got it tested was lean the heck out of the carb just enough to keep it running, and it passed with flying colors.
 
Do you think anyone would notice if you where standing at the gas staion filling the trunk with gas :D I think a few tracor round would do the deed, just make sure you're a ways off. Oh yeah, and act casual :cool:
 
houndawg, when was the last time you had an emmisions check? IL recently changed all the testing to the dyno type. "More realistic" they say. You don't even get to "test" the car yourself. Some minimum wage goon drives it onto the dyno, they plop a fan in front of the car and chock the non-drive vehicles. (WTF do they do with full time AWD cars??) There have been several incidents where the car will lose control on the dyno, take off, and collide with the building and/or the car in front of it. The State won't pay for the damage because of some stupid contract with the company that does the testing. If the smog goons break your car, you're pretty much screwed.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by BadMedicine:
Do you think anyone would notice if you where standing at the gas staion filling the trunk with gas :D I think a few tracor round would do the deed, just make sure you're a ways off. Oh yeah, and act casual :cool:[/quote]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

I was thinkin you should set it on fire on the state capital lawns..after removing the VIN and such. Filling the trunk with gas would certainly help!

And so as not to look suspicious..plug the filler tube and cut thru the side into the trunk to fill...so what if a Subaru has an 80gallon gas tank?!?!?! :D
 
I hear Gold Dots work good on heavier German Cars.
With a thinner skinned and lighter car like a Subaru - You might want the more rapidly expanding and seperating Quik-Shoks. This way shot your shot me not exactly spot on - you have a great chance of hitting something vital... like locks or ignition control boxes.

Of course should you be on the inside...

Actually the best anti vehicle weapon is a wine bottle full of high octain 1/2 filled with oatmeal. Rag stuffed in the top and lit. You want the bottle to break open inside the vehicle for best effect - but a hit to the front windshield should have many good side effects as well.

Things to due before shooting the car:
Remove the battery. They are useful to keep.
Wheels and tires - if they are in good shape, Seats sometimes. Stereo if its good.
The title. Any other parts you can sell to the junk yard before hand.

I was thinking about doing this to my Geo.
Still might. I'ld like to get 500 out of it.
Anything left over is bait.

Still looking for my next racer project car and I am thinking Dodge Neon. Huh? A Neon?
Seriously! I know how to get over 200 horse out of it with out MAJOR surgery. And they handle great. Good sports cars. A 95 ACR Neon is actually ready to race AS IS. (well, Ild want some more power, but still... its ready.)

You know - the gun content is thin in this thread... its just about OT - but at least its not going to start a riot like other topics. I am so relieved about that, I'll just let the thread stay open for a bit longer.
 
Well, those egg-sucking, yellowdog PRK bastids are imposing their socialist ideas into every part of life not just GUN OWNERSHIP. There.

I do feel for you guys out there. Come to Georgia. Hell, go anywhere, just escape with what you have before they get it all and redistribute it.
 
Is this a Subaru Legacy/Outback? What model is it?

IMHO good cars like good guns shouldn't be "put to sleep" just cause they are old.
 
Programs like these are short sighted and actually do more harm to the environment than good. For one thing most of these older cars will die of attrition eventually anyway and it undoubtably produces much more pollution to produce a new car than it does to drive the older car for a couple of years. Unfortunately this requires an ability to grasp the "big picture" which most environmental wackos don't have. For another thing it makes a lot of people who are true, thinking environmentalists just want to trash all the government programs. I count myself in this group. I have seen first hand what happens when there is no regulation and it isn't pretty. Environmetal regulations are necessary, but this quest for Utopia is crazy. Decisions regarding the environment have to be reality based (duh!), but a lot of government employoees (and others) don't want ot hear about reality because it interferes with what they "want". Like "nonpolluting" electric cars. Where do these morons think the electricity comes from? Out of the wall?
I'd better quit, this is turning into a rant.

"They can have my '79 Chrysler 300 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands."
 
HI! Part it out(i.e. strip it) down to the max(min) if you have to turn it in. Try to find an out of state relative that may need a good car like this for work, Before you turn it in. I drive a '70 dodge dart, with a slant six, I can and have replaced any part of the car for about $100 ("new" used engine in '98 for $100), I get about 21mpg, Looks like hell but drives and rides better than most Lincoln town cars(My mother has had several '85 to '95 models) This year I have no smog test to pass or ever from now on(last 8 years it has been tested every 2 years it still passed by half or less what my friend '90 daytona passed by), tabs are <$60 for it, friends Daytona are >$700.

If I won a new car I would sell it and for every thousand I got for the new one I would buy a 68 to 75 dart, with a slant six, and park them side by side and when one died I would just drive the next one away. I would have reliable cars for a lifetime...

Don't just turn it in or shoot it up till it's the last resort...

Just to bring this back to the subject I would see how high I could get it on am/nite and fuel oil. :D

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Shoot early, shoot often...

and

Don't Vote for ****ing Lawyers!

[This message has been edited by LongArms (edited October 27, 2000).]
 
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