Thanks Justin and it is good to be back to posting again. They did away with the thirty year exemptions and anything 1976 or newer will always have to be smog checked. The state does have a program that will give about 500 vehicles each year a life-time exemption after a one time smog check, but...
Good and surprised actually... here in California they drum into you that if you drive anything older than a 1995 vehicle you should take if off the road. In fact in our county they will give me a $1,000 if I would turn the truck into them, for them to then to crush it and get that terrible smog...
Hi guys.... In answer to your question Doug they do an extensive visual check and miscellaneous other checks, then if that passes then the tailpipe emissions test. I have had to do smog on the truck every two years and 3 different 460s since 1982. Some years it has been very expensive and hard...