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That explains it. Better service there. They feel that they should feed you before they "screw you". I pay more for registration now than I did when my 1984 Toyota was new.
 
SaparotRob said:
Diamond Bar.
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As in Diamond Bar, Southern California?

And let's talk about the California DMV:
So I recently bought an '07 Chevy HHR both for parts for my '11 HHR panel and as a future project.
It's engine is blown (no big deal, I don't intend to drive it) BUT I am being told that it needs a smog certificate to transfer the title.
I calmly explain to the idiot...err, woman, behind the counter that I just want to transfer the title and place it on "non-op" status (non-operative) because it's going to sit for a few years.
"But sir, you need to have a smog certificate and insurance before you can transfer the title".
I stared at her for what seemed like an eternity - then calmly said, speaking slowly: "it has a blown engine, it does not run. It is not intended to be driven any time soon. It's parked on private property where it will be worked on over the next several years and no need for insurance because it has a blown engine and cannot be driven".
She took a moment to process all that and then said: "but sir, you need to have a smog certificate before I can transfer the title"
*sigh*
Me: "so how do I get a smog certificate if it doesn't run?"
Her: "you just take it to an approved smog inspection shop"
Me: "did you miss the part where I said it cannot run?"
Her: "Sir, look, you just need to have it done before the title can be transferred, ok?"

I gave up...
 
One day around 1975 I went out a search mission, looking for a homebuilt biplane that had disappeared between Enid OK and Amarillo TX. It was then that I found out that the people in NW OK had an interesting approach to disposing of older vehicles. They took them out to a spot in the middle of nowhere and park them, usually on the edge of a ravine that they might want to fill up with something.

And there the old cars stayed. In OK, say you bought a 1955 Chevy new, drove it for 6 years and it suffered from a busted block, and you parked it in the barn and then came back in 1974 and decided it was worth restoring, the DMV would inform you that you owed all the back taxes from 1961 to 1974. Just because you were not licensing it and driving it during those 13 years did not mean you were forgiven the taxes. Needless to say, that made restoring old cars prohibitively expensive.

Need some old car parts? Get yourself a good shortfield airplane and go looking around NW OK.
 
It happens everywhere. When I retired in 2002 I bought the 1992 company van assigned to the shop. It was a hand me down from a field unit to be traded, when my boss got the fleet mgr to let us use it instead of renting one when we needed one. The fleet mgr kept wanting us to get rid of it because he said it cost too much, although we did the maintenance ourselves with no cost to the company but insurance. Since the fleet mgr was glad to be rid of it finally, I got it for $300 but it cost me $535 to transfer title because the company had been bought three times with name changes. Somehow, each time the fleet changed names this didn't cause a problem but since the unit was still in the old name, I had to transfer three times and three license tags. I got to keep the last one. However, I just sold it a few months ago for $400.
 
Well, Pomona actually. When my job was transferred to California I was put up for a while in a garden apartment in Diamond Bar. That being the snootiest address I ever stayed at. I moved to Upland.
It's probably fair to say that every state DMV has the same infuriating regs worded slightly different.
 
at6 said:
If you think NY DMV is bad, try the CA DMV.
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Or Idaho's. I mailed my motorcycle registration renewal and the check on December 15, usually plenty of time for the Dec 31 expiration. Nope.....nothing yet. It's been six weeks. Like all purveyors of crappy service, they blame it on Covid.
 
SaparotRob said:
Well, Pomona actually.
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I lived in Diamond Bar when I was a kid - this was back before the 57 freeway cutting through Brea canyon.
Just a few housing tracts in the center of the valley, by Alpha Beta and the only gas station (a Union 76) surrounded by horse ranches and oak and sycamore covered hills.
 
Not really annoyed, just wanted to let my old friends to know.
On 11/11/20 I had emergency surgery to fix a broken neck that my surgeon thinks happened 10 or so years ago, because as he put it, it was a question of not if, but when I would be paralyzed. I just thought my neck hurt,... really!
Around the last of June/ first of July I had been experiencing a loss of muscular control that made me walk like I was drunk all the time, and I was falling quite regularly. Not to mention shaking of my hands, "electric" shockwaves down my arms and legs and stuff like that. My wife and daughter finally convinced me to go to a doctor, but because I am a stubborn ass it was almost too late. A 45 minute surgery turned into 2 and 1/2 hours because of the damage.
Anyways, I will never get back to normal because the c-5 vertebrae that they removed (and now replaced with screws and bits of titanium) had cut into my spinal cord and that just doesn't heal, so pain and shaky is the new normal for me. (thank goodness for Oxy's.)
The down-side is, it makes modeling and many other basic things like putting on socks, cooking, walking, peeing, having marital relations, and such, difficult. I have to walk with a cane now also.
The up-side is I can throw things at people in restaurants because of the shaky/ jerky movements, smack small children or annoying little dogs with my cane, and I can do a really good Kathern Hepburn impersonation now, think of the movie "On Golden Pond"... "The loons, Norman, the loons!"
Life is all what you make of it. I may check in from time to time, but for now, Good-bye, thank you all, and happy modeling!
 
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