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fl0w3n

fl0w3n

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I guess you can’t make polls on the site, so just post up - I’m curious for those of you in California

A. wheeler/crawler registered and smogged?

B. wheeler/crawler non-op’d and green stickered?

C. None of the above F-it


I want to strip my rig down, but even if I tow it to the general wheeling area there’s still some street time needed. For instance driving from a trail end back to the beginning where the trailer got left or back to a town. Am I asking for trouble trying to do this with a non-op green sticker rig? I’m talking bigger trails like going from end of Dusy back to Shaver, end of Rubicon back to Loon, etc
 
Depends, I've seen some pretty wild stuff over the years but I wouldn't recommend it. On holiday weekends, Shaver is crawling with cops! I'd imagine Tahoe would be similar. We always ran trails both ways though and ended up back at our trailers. Been forever since I've done Dusy because honestly, it's kinda lame. 30 mile trail with maybe a couple miles of actual decent wheeling, the rest is like a winding dirt road with a rock here and there. I'd go either option A or B
 
I don't really wheel, but my "wheeler under construction" is licensed and insured.
 
Here it’s trailer 100% or it’s fully street legal. Commercial cops everywhere on Hwy 80, it’s a major truck route. Beadlocks are ok, they’re on everything and lots of street-driven rigs on full-width axles running around with not much attempt at mud flaps.
 
Basically it needs to be registered to drive on the street. It wouldnt be worth risking getting it impounded
 
Alpha for the last 20+ years

No reason to give suckremento my rig!
My .02 is Keep it legal
 
At LEAST As legal as the laws forced upon us without any say/vote!
Mans gotta take control of his situation :flipoff2:
 
If you’re going to be driving on road between trails then keep it street legal. Want to park at the gas station at Cisco Grove then drive the highway to Fordyce? Better be registered or risk it for the 1 mile drive there, and back.
 
This is kinda what I figured. It would take some effort but I could probably get my rig smogged and then take it off non-op and switch it to a transfer of ownership county.

That’s probably the best thing to do.
 
RunningProblem said:
If you’re going to be driving on road between trails then keep it street legal. Want to park at the gas station at Cisco Grove then drive the highway to Fordyce? Better be registered or risk it for the 1 mile drive there, and back.
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We’ve been going across the bridge to Rattlesnake on green stickers from the Chevron for 2-3 years, not one reported problem. 5 dollar road still closed though.
 
There are ways around smog in CA. Rangers, sheriffs, and CHP are on the lookout for green stickered rigs on the road and they WILL fuck you when they spot you. Rubicon, Fordyce and Dusy are particular areas where the law likes to be on the lookout. A few of us have been pulled over on the way to Dusy by an overzealous park ranger who was convinced that he saw three green-stickered rigs only to be let down by the fact that all four of us were registered, insured and not on meth.

Green sticker is ghetto anyway. It's not that hard to make something fuel injected pass smog.

You have pretty much these choices (ranging in legality and ease):
  • Pass smog
  • Transfer to non smog county in CA
  • Re-title as a pre-1975 vehicle
  • Register and title in Montana
  • Green sticker and pray
 
A all the way, but I do have dual registration. Best of both worlds.
 
FordFascist said:
There are ways around smog in CA. Rangers, sheriffs, and CHP are on the lookout for green stickered rigs on the road and they WILL fuck you when they spot you. Rubicon, Fordyce and Dusy are particular areas where the law likes to be on the lookout. A few of us have been pulled over on the way to Dusy by an overzealous park ranger who was convinced that he saw three green-stickered rigs only to be let down by the fact that all four of us were registered, insured and not on meth.

Green sticker is ghetto anyway. It's not that hard to make something fuel injected pass smog.

You have pretty much these choices (ranging in legality and ease):
  • Pass smog
  • Transfer to non smog county in CA
  • Re-title as a pre-1975 vehicle
  • Register and title in Montana
  • Green sticker and pray
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If the reg address/state doesn't match your DL address/state they get bitchy too.

What's really fun is when your DL, reg and insurance are all from different states.

Just tell them that if they are too poor to own residences in 3 states it's not your problem :laughing:
 
A. wheeler/crawler registered and smogged?

We don't require inspections in Ca., so keeping current tags on a non legal shit box is pretty easy.

It does get expensive smogging, tagging and insuring a dedicated "Trail Rig" but it takes the anxiety out of jumping on the highway when you have plates and insurance.

Certain times of the year the local Earp Ca. Highway patrol get shitty, and a mud flap ticket beats the shit out of getting caught in a green sticker rig.
 
I dunno man. Depends on where you are. Out in bfe California, a green sticker is just to make sure you're legal. We've run sxs's down the interstate and haven't gotten screwed with. That being said, a pre '75 rig is easy and cheap (ish) to keep plated. Your call.
 
NorCalJalopy said:
There’s places that allow sxs’s , dirt bikes and green stickers but not plated vehicles. I’m west of Chico and there is dept forestry trails west of me that have posted signs no on road vehicles.
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Wasn't there a thread at another place to do dual registration.
Plates and a green sticker?
 
FordFascist said:
There are ways around smog in CA. Rangers, sheriffs, and CHP are on the lookout for green stickered rigs on the road and they WILL fuck you when they spot you. Rubicon, Fordyce and Dusy are particular areas where the law likes to be on the lookout. A few of us have been pulled over on the way to Dusy by an overzealous park ranger who was convinced that he saw three green-stickered rigs only to be let down by the fact that all four of us were registered, insured and not on meth.

Green sticker is ghetto anyway. It's not that hard to make something fuel injected pass smog.

You have pretty much these choices (ranging in legality and ease):
  • Pass smog
  • Transfer to non smog county in CA
  • Re-title as a pre-1975 vehicle
  • Register and title in Montana
  • Green sticker and pray
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I haven’t smogged my Jeep (Renix 4.0) since I’ve had it, but with a little work I probably could get it to pass and then transfer to non smog county.
I guess I just need to go try and see how much hassle I get, if any.
 
fl0w3n said:
I haven’t smogged my Jeep (Renix 4.0) since I’ve had it, but with a little work I probably could get it to pass and then transfer to non smog county.
I guess I just need to go try and see how much hassle I get, if any.
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Yes. This.
 
A license plate gets you a long way.

The key is to build in a way to get you past the anoying shit.

You didnt say what you have/building but what could you do to make it exempt?
Get a pre smog version of your rig in your name legal and do some riggertry.

New year is coming and with that special construction vins become available again. File for it claim it as pre smog special construction and get it verified, then your done.
 
You may have to do a final smog verification as per your power plant spec but that should be the end of it.

My buddy bought a fiberglass cobra body, ls1/3 and got it all jiven, special construction as 1960 cobra(which doesnt even exist). Hand build chassis with various car parts. And thats it. Its done. Never get smog nor verification again.
 
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