The Assembly Appropriations Committee killed “Leno’s Law” that aimed to give classic car owners a pass from smog requirements.

Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.

Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m no billionaire, and I assume you probably aren’t either.

    But if you got a huge garage slap full of extremely valuable antique vehicles, that all suddenly need emissions inspection, despite them only basically being driven once a year or for testing or an event or something, then why wouldn’t someone with such a collection of rare and antique vehicles not want to move to a more chill state?

    It’s impossible to make many of his classic vehicles to ever meet emissions standards, but at the same time he doesn’t drive them everyday either.

    Mississippi and a handful of other states are reasonably chill about such things. Like if you have an antique tag (vehicle 25 years old or older), you’re only allowed to drive it once a month or so.

    With his collection of vehicles (which may as well be a museum of its own already), those vehicles need to be driven every few months or so, even if only for a few miles, to sling the oil and fluids around and keep the parts from locking up.

    Yeah yeah, Jay is stupid rich, but he’s also maintaining a functioning chunk of automotive history. Nobody expects those antique cars on the road every single day, but sometimes they need to breathe…