Thread: Inspection Question.

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Texas is a bitch for hotrodders. Read this site:

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/vi/Misc/faq/engine.html

It's pretty scary.

In particular

The year model of a reconstructed vehicle will be the same year in which it was reconstructed and not the year of original manufacture. Therefore, the inspection requirements would be for the model year of the vehicle (same as the year of reconstruction) or the year model of the engine itself, whichever is the later model.

In fact, it seems worse than that. The year of the vehicle is the newest of a) the vehicle, b) the engine, or c) when you built it.

This may be your out, though:

However it is registered, is how DPS inspection stations will test it.

I think this means that if TEXDOT registers a vehicle as a '53 Ford, DPS must inspect it as a '53 Ford.

Obviously, there are a lot of hot rods in Texas that haven't followed these rules, so I'm not sure how they got it done.

Is RockinRod still around?

Jack, I don't think Rocknrod has been here for a while. According to the Member's list on him his last post was in October 2006. Don't know what happened to him.

It does sound as you say, if you keep your vehicle registered as the year of original manufacture, you'd only have to comply with that years rules. Strange wording in their laws.