MM89Iroc

Good Ol Mississippi here....

NO front plates....Thank goodness
Emmissions...ha, we still use leaded gas... No really though we don't have and butt sniffers here.
Ski resort...like GA said..what does snow look like?
Beach...Lake 5 minutes away..ocean is about 5 hours.
Tracks - around every corner!!

zupmanZ28

Delaware

no front tag required

there is emissions, but there not extremely strict, although there not too lax either,

the nearest ski resort is about 3 hours away, the nearest beach is about 100 yards from my house. The nearest populated beach with lifeguards and everything is about 25 minutes down the road.

Eric

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CrazyHawaiian

Hawaii!!!

Hheheh, sorry bout that, thought we were being left out :/ We do have a track here on O'ahu. Its called Hawaii Raceway Park and we got an alright 1/4 mile strip. They also have areas for SCCA and for people to practice drifting. Some of the other islands also have a 1/4 mi track. But anyway ...

Front Plate - Yes
Smog Control - Nope, we have worse ... RECONSTRUCTION
Beach - 30 minutes from anywhere in all directions!! hahah

Reconstruction is: Any modification to any street driven vehicle. So to get Reconstruction (or Recon as we call it) you need to goto a state run facility (sort of like the smog control places they have in cali) and they fully check out your car and either pass or fail you depending on if your mods are 'legal.' Nobody ever passes recon because the legal limit you can mod is ridiculous. Its a $55 ticket if you get caught on the streets with no recon. I had 17 no recon tickets last year for my truck. HEHEHEH!!!!!!!

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chevyboy07 91

hahahaah LMAO

Florida...no emissions
Florida...no stupid front plate
Florida...you can throw a rock in the ocean from about anywhere (exaggerated)..very close to the BEST beaches in the country!!
what the hell is skiing /what is snow? LOL

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1992 Z-28 L98/1LE. Heritage Edition. SLP runners, gutted cats, SLP 3" cat-back & muffler. 3" flo-tech cut-out, SLP TB foil, K&N filter @ TB, 3.23 posi rear.

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ViciousZ

iTrader: (1)

Florida residents: isn't the humidity a problem as far as vehicle rust? Is it as humid in the center of the state as on the coast? (you can see what my main priorities are as far as where I move after I graduate college: car car car).

86FyrBrd

iTrader: (1)

More info. on PA:

Emissions: Depends on your county (Bucks County=Yes)

Front Plate: He** No!

Ski Resort: from rite here, maybe as little as 20 minutes

Beach: as little as an hour as much as 3 hours.

NYC: 1 1/2 hours

Washington DC: 3 or 4 hours



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MrsLottaBallsCamaro

Well, I'll be the second Virginian, but I live on the other side of the state. Front tags are a must. Emissions? Never known anybody that has had them checked. And yes, there is a beach within 45 minutes of Hampton Roads and there are some ski resorts in the mountains about 3 hours from Hampton Roads. You should move here, it's great! Well, it's not great enough for me to stay here, I want to move to North Carolina..

92RSB4C

Friendswood, Texas (Between Houston and Galveston)

1)Plates-Yes Cops especially like to pick on you if you have a good looking car.

2)Emissions-Yes

3)Beaches-30 drive but Galveston Beach sucks! You could get disease if you get water up your nose! If you walk down the beach, you'll most likely get stung by a washed up jelly fish.

I have a question for you guys. If a car is in OverDrive and is doing 55MPH, will it spit out more harmful, air polluting emissions than the same car doing 70MPH in OverDrive?

Please help me on this one, since they're lowering speed limits on I-45 freeway to 55MPH! There reason being, that if the air here does not pass Federal guidelines, the Feds will cut funding for road construction. Another thing they're doing id making it illegal to mow your grass in the morning!?!?! I'd say we speed all we want and make road construction stop!!! Give them a brake!!! I don't want to get off the subject but it was eating me up. If any thirdgener's out there live in the Houston/Galveston area, please respond.

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Blue502

Oregon (pronounced: Or-E-Gun)

Dewey was incorrect above in saying that front plates aren't required. They are, and I have the citation to prove it Only one ticket in 2 decades isn't too bad though. Emissions like Dewey said.

Mt. Hood is only 50 miles from Portland, and has the only year round skiing in the lower 48 states. It is the home of the US Skiing Team. Other quality skiing throughout the state.

Pacific Ocean on the west side, the beautiful Columbia River Gorge, Crater Lake (deepest lake in the world), 50 miles of sand dunes for 4 wheeling & motorcycles, lots of great hiking, fishing, hunting, boating, etc. If you like to ride your bike in the city, Portland is your place (personally I prefer to run the bicyclists over with my dump truck ).

Oh yeah, and we only get about half as much rain as Seattle down here.

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'86 Camaro Sport Coupe and '88 IROC

Sonar_un

I live in the woodlands (North Houston) Montgomery County

1) Front plate - YES! DAMNIT
2) Emissions - NO!!! YAY!, but its going to be added soon
3) Beaches - Galveston, but it sux

I heard about the 55mph on I-45. I think its BS really, something like that will never pass.

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1988formula350

Massachusetts here...

yes to front plate but i don't
yes to emissions and i do
yes to skiing (vermont and new hampshire) and beaches (cape cod plus lots more)
all close

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Kj Rockz

Hawaii here...

Yes front plate, Nice sandy beaches 5 mins away, no skiing.

Yes Emissions, at least for me, failed for leaky cat, d@mn inspection rules...

I however don't have my front plate on the front. I think it looks tacky, but when the day comes, and the cop tells me to put it on, I will.

Untill then, I'll continue to violate the law...

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Kj

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92RSB4C

The 55MPH law already passed and will take effect soon!

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Willie

iTrader: (1)

What I find interesting about mandated front license plates is that (most) southern states do not require it, but (most) northern states do. This is a general rule of thumb which has some exceptions; Texas being one and California being another (if you consider CA "southern").

Check this out. The following is a list of states that I know. Southern states that do not require front plates:

Arizona
New Mexico
Texas (oops, an exception)
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida

Nothern states that do require front plates:

Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York

92RSB4C

Here's what I've come up with: If they want to lower emissions this equation, time(on freeway) vs. engine RPM at 55MPH vs. harmful emissions output , will have to be less than this equation, time vs. engine RPM at 70MPH vs. harmful emissions output. Also, come summer time, people will start mowing grass in the afternoon and have heatstrokes and die! The death rate is bad enough as it is.

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Chuck Everly

I will add to jm91rs Ohio post,

We do require front plate and it depends on the officer’s mood as to the enforcement rule.

No emissions testing in my area.

Beaches are out my door and skiing resorts as close as 1 hour (in the winter).



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Crusader

iTrader: (1)

I thought he was talking a beach on the ocean, big lake is 15 minutes from me. I could be at the Skagit river in 5.

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Ward

iTrader: (1)

emissions laws are not state law, they are city law. Here in dallas county, emissions is required, front lp is required, but i think thats state law, and a ski resort in texas? I think you know the answer to that...

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camaro chick

Front plate in IL- but I've never had one-I don't diplay it in window or carry it in my car, and I don't care. If they have any reason to pull me over it is because of speeding-not plates and when cops have pulled me over they have never said a thing.
Emissions-totally **** about it
Skiing avail. approx 30 min. (if you want better skiing- its 2 hrs 20 min. away) Beaches within a half an hour or closer.
And you have Chicago (downtown) about 25 min. away-if you can't find it in Chicago-you probably wont find it anywhere else (there is so much to do).

West Coast GTA Man

In Florida where I am at (West Coast) We do not need a licence plate on the front of our cars. We do not have emissions checks. And there are beaches everywhere! The closest one is about 5 minutes away. The nicest ones (Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Sarasota etc.) are about 1 hour away. AhHHHHHH! I love Florida
Later
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89Irocz23

I live in Florida and I have never had a problem with rusting and I live 10 minutes from the beach. I would only see a problem from salt water, but I never had any rusting issues. If you drive around here you wont see any rusty cars. I have never seen cars with rust around here now that I think about it.

STUB25

Wisconsin Here!!

Yes we need a front plate. But now know has one.
I have no idea about emission, if there are I DON'T CARE!!!
Ten Minutes from Skiing and 20 from a beach!!

YYYEEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!! LOL

un4givin89

Here in Virginia, you supposedly have to have a front plate, as if I care. The beach is 500 yards from my house, the ski resorts are in the Blue Ridge about a 2 hours drive north. I love in Virginia Beach VA,as far as emissions go there are no checks, just a visual to see you got a cat and a muffler and it doesn't have a hole in it.

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CHCKLS

Rhode Island

Front plates required.

Safety & Emmissions required every year.

A beach is 30 mintues or less from any point in the state.

Drakar

I hope Im not intruding on an American only party here, but up north if any one is interested.

Smogy - yep alittle easier then Cali, they stick up the pipe and mirror (no under hood )
Beach - 5 minutes to 2 and 20-30min to 4 or 5 more.
Skiing - depends you want local crap mountains pick from 3 all 20 minutes apart. World Class (whistler & Blackcomb) 1 hour 30 min (F-body - 1 hour)

PS beware Highway patrol 4th Gen Z

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WaynesRS

BATON ROUGE , Louisiana

Yeah we do have emmisions testing .Guess they dont in Laffayette ( see other reply above in posts)

Only one plate . we use to have those cool "LoUiSiAna plates .

a beach ? yeah , but not much

Sking ? your kidding right All flat land , we're lucky if we see ice

But its a very pretty state .Pretty swamps with alot of cypress trees.Becarefull of the gators If you like hunting and fishing , come on down !

If you like good food and crawfish come one down !

86bird_28v6_5spd_ramair

Oregon(toledo area),Ohio
yes to the front plate, local boys wont hound you about it but will use it as an excuess when they want to know what your up too. state troopers get real pissy about it.

no emmsion crap to deal with what so ever, and the beach is 5 mins away on bike.

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ChillPhatCat

Well, I saw 3 NY posts... but they're conflicting although all true... So I will clearify the disputes...

Upstate NY: $4 for visual inspection only.
In and around the City: ~$20 for them to put it on the sniffer.

I have plates in front and rear... Only been pulled over for speeding (never ticketed ), and the car is definitely not emissions legal... It will almost pass the visual though... just need a belt for the smog pump now.

Ski resorts all over the place, probably 5 or 6 within 1 hour radius... the beach is a good 3-5 hours depending on what direction I go...

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SpeedCat86

In Virginia, emmisions checks vary on where you live. In Northern VA ( DC area) we have to do our emissions check on a chassis dyno. UGH.

88irocz28

Since I don't see Arkansas anywhere on the list, I'll chime in from Hicksville, USA.

Let's see... NE Arkansas:
1) No front plate required
2) No emissions
3) 10 hours from the beach, I guess 18 from a ski resort.

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Gutted airboxes
180 degree T-stat
Advanced base TPS voltage
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Crusader

iTrader: (1)

I've seen that! Or one of them, but I think that was before I had my 'Bird(s) and I wasn't driving it anyway...

91'firebrd

Phoenix, AZ

No front license plate needed.

Emmissions every other year and if your car runs good you can breeze through them. I failed the gas cap test and had to buy a new gas cap last time - no biggie.

Nearest beach for Phoenix or Tucson is Rocky Point, Mexico. Called Puerto Penasco on the map. It takes about 5-6 hours from Phoenix even less from Tucson. Nearest beach in US would be San Diego for Tucson and I think LA and San Diego is about the same from Phoenix but LA takes longer to drive through. Takes about 7 hours from Phoenix, Tucson can probably make to the beaches in San Diego in about 6 hours.
2 hours from SnowBowl north of Flagstaff from Phoenix. Lots of vertical drop for a fairly small ski resort.

super83Z

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1983 Z28 350w/ edelbrock performer RPM power package , dynomax shorty headers, edelbrock 3" exhaust system, T-56 and ASCD SS hood.

future mods:
completely done over suspension, black paint with flames,
Superram swap coming up

Wifes new car:

95Z28, AT, leather, T-tops bone stock for now.

future mods:
header to tailpipe replacement and a cold air intake. Then I am just going to leave it alone

Matt87GTA

Well, I see NO Minnesota posts....

First off, I want outta here...pronto! My only complaint for this state is winter.... can't drive my freakin car for almost half the year!! I guess it gives us time to do major mods without feeling left out from having the car laid up in the garage though......

Anyways:

1. Front Plate: Around Minneapolis St. Paul area: yes. Out in 'the country': nahh (I don't mind since the bumper cover on my GTA is less than pristine behind the plate )

2. Emissions: NOPE. They just got rid of them two years ago!! Statewide! WHOOHOO.. I just titled my car at a friends house outside the Twin City area and I was fine even when they had the Smog ***** here.

3. No Ocean beaches, but we are the land of 10,000 lakes (serious underestimate)!!
Lots of ski resorts from November to March or so, but not in the summer - it gets F'in hot and humid up here!!

Racetracks: We have one 1/8 mile track (Grove Creek) within an hour or so of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. There is a 1/4 mile track (Rock Falls) about an hour and a half from here in Wisconsin. There is also a 1/4 mile track (Tri-state) that is about three and a half hours from here in Iowa - the nice thing about this track is it is well-known for it's awesome track conditions (traction) - ALL CONCRETE!! - and it is an IHRA track so you can go 11.85 and slower without a cage.....

I might add another required trait for a good place to live, car-wise. Weather. The less weather and 'acts of G0d', the better. ie. - No tornados, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no snow (which brings the dreaded road-salt - BOOOOO HISSSSSSS), and no rain!! These things are a big factor in my book as I don't want my pride and joy getting destroyed on me, I don't drive my car in the snow, and I HATE driving in the rain - it just makes the car look like a$$ and gets everything dirty......

I plan on moving out of this state when i finish school as well...... I was throwing around ideas of somewhere in Texas.... (Atleast I can go to a NORTH STARS game again grrrrr). We should all band together and create a Thirdgen society.......hehe.........

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black85camaro

What part of Indiana? I am looking for some fellow racers or F-Body owners to get to know and hang out or cruise with... E-mail me. tdb@comteck.com


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TomP

Hah, I wish. I had to take a run on the chassis dyno for that "modified" IM/240 test that Whitman left us with. There was only a handful (3?) of state inspection centers that were still using the old test. I figured I'd hunt one down if I failed on the new test, but I passed it.

Inspection also lasts -2- years, but registration is per-year. I'm due again for inspection this January... (last time was Jan 2000), lets see if I pass!

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badassfbody

Maryland
Front tag is required.
There is emissions...but there are ways around it.
both a beach and ski resort within a 3hour drive

84s/e

Missouri

-plate required(haven't had one in 2 years)
-no emissions
-no skiing, but plenty of lakes

FLYNLOW92rs

iTrader: (53)

Well i haven't seen the FL post so here it is.....

NO emissions in South Florida

NO front license plate in Florida

10 minutes to beach.........

Ski resort......don't even no where to begin.......plus the beach is way better......who wants to see all those women with clothes on......

Cargasm

Well... Charleston, SC here. No front plate required, no emissions checks, beach is 15-30 minutes away (you have your choice of 3, depends on which one you choose...)

83TransAm

Michigan:

DOES NOT REQUIRE FRONT PLATES! I don't know who said that, but here in the State where cars is the number 1 industry, we are sane and don't require stupid front plates.

We do not have emissions tests. I have never had to go through one.

There are many ski resorts around.

Kj Rockz

Dood, does it count if your in the state of Euphoira.

irocbarry

MONTANA

i know no one cares about us buthere it is

what are emissions

plate required bu tnever heard of it being inforced

beach non existant

ski, two in town (missoula), then some of the best in the country within 3 hours :lala:

BikertrashDude

Virgina
front plate----yes
emissions---- no
20-30 Min(depending on traffic) for the beach
I'd say about 4 hrs for ski (i think i never went) in WVA
biker

jawzforlife1

I live in minnestoa also, and winters do suck. But I dont complain too much. When winter comes the camaro goes into storage and the big geen chevy truck comes out. Sure the truck isnt as cool as the camaro, buit its nice not having to woory about the car. Plus with a truck in the winter it is alot easier to get throught snow drifts.

Snow sucks unless you have a truck to rip throught it.

FLYNLOW92rs

iTrader: (53)

Snow is fun.........It's the damn cold that sucks......

jawzforlife1

Snow if even more fun when your in a big truck that you got for $3000 from the goverment auction that you really dont care about.

IwantanFbody

You dont have emmisions??? I live in GA and i jsut had to get my truck tested!

Jokerman

Columbia MO. Yes front plate, no smog (just a quick visual), *** knows on the beach (maybe some of the lakes, but the ozarks are nasty polluted) and ski i think there is an artificial thats about 2.5hours from here.

iroc2nv

CANADA HERE...(hey we might as well be your 53rd??? state anyways)

do you need a front plate-YEP
emission testing-YEP(IN ONTARIO ANYWAYS)
ski resort-bout 45 mins (barrie ontario)
beach-wasaga=45-1 hr depending if you speed or not...

fyi...

wasaga beach is the largest fresh water beach in ontario...thats why its the biggest party place around...last year (thanks to our govnmts new by law) i seen at least 10 women with no tops on...BOOBIES.. and it is getting better and better every year


iroc2nv