"unaltered" is the key legal word for "collec

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http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_ ... _comm.html

07/07/04 04:18:25 PM Legislative Update 07/07/2004
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
GAAS:292:04
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07/07/2004
Legislative Update 07/07/2004
Governor Schwarzenegger signed 27 bills into law and vetoed five bills.
Bills Signed:

SB 1784 by Senator Betty Karnette (D-Long Beach) - Vehicles: collector motor vehicles. This bill defines "collector motor vehicles."

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Looked into it... Here is an exerpt from:
http://www.acccdefender.org/bulletin.html

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WILL PUT A ‘COLLECTOR VEHICLE DEFINITION’ IN SECTION 259 OF THE VEHICLE CODE

It will read as follows:

“Collector motor vehicle� means a motor vehicle owned by a collector, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 5051, and the motor vehicle is used primarily in shows, parades, charitable functions, and historical exhibitions for display, maintenance, and preservation, and is not used primarily for transportation.

If an owner chooses to use this definition for their vehicle for any reason, i.e. insurance purposes, they still have the right to drive it, just not as their primary source of transportation or daily driver.

As our collector vehicles get older, more valuable and used more exclusively for collector purposes, we must get separated from the “Older Car� image, which is subject to confiscation through abatement, scrapage programs, being identified as a gross polluter, and subject to the “All motor vehicles will…,� laws.