The sad thing is as the Car enthusiast demographic ages out, politicians know that SEMA and other pro-hot rod organizations are rapidly losing political clout (which = Dotation dollars) meanwhile the green initiative lobbyies are almost fully backed by both sides of the political Aisle.

It may only get worse, particularly with states Like California and Colorado driving more and more restrictive agendas.

The logic of the 25 year exemption (in NC cars over 30 or 35 years no longer require inspections) was that as new cars come into the market by the millions each year, the number of older vehicles proportionally reduce in terms of % of total cars on the road, and the ones that ARE still driving are likely owned by car enthusiasts that have a vested interest in properly maintaining them and attrition very likely takes out a percentage of those remaining.

Therefore (logically) the problem (in terms of the overall) reduces to where it's not much of an overall problem at all.

But now it seems those collector/hobbiest cars are again very easy targets for someone or some politically motivated group who is looking for an obvious "scapegoat" that isn't in-line with the current political thinking.

I don't like the way things are trending I'm afraid it might only get worse for car enthusiasts...I 100% hope I'm wrong but I think it would be hard to argue with the logic of how I think it's trending.