How classic car-friendly is your state?

[Richard Cranium]

Yay, Taxachusetts is at the top of the list.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-vi...ium=email&utm_content=19_July_20_Weekend_News

 

[JB400]

Not much better where I'm at.

 

[Duckmanreno]

Nevada is pretty friendly to classic cars since Hot August Nights is here. A few different categories of licenses that you don't have to smog if you drive less then 5k per year. DMV actually has info about project cars.
Now all the liberals moving here might change that.

 

[hanks73340]

They are right about Michigan....the roads do suck here.....

 

[Dennis H]

California and New Jersey shitholes. No surprise.

 

[69a100]

California and New Jersey shitholes. No surprise.

It's nice to see your true love of CA. shining through Dennis, love it!

 

[GetX'd]

I owned my car in MN for many years and agree the car culture up there is very strong and the state is classic friendly. When I shipped it to CA where I live now. Everything about this place except the weather was a hassle. When I sold it went back to MN to one of my oldest and best friends. He’s happy as a pig In **** up there with the car. While I’m bumming here in CA.

 

[Gone]

NC has never required an annual safety inspection on my '70 Bee.

 

[snakeyes]

we are at 13

 

[snakeoil24]

New Jersey the worst for everything!

 

[Johnpat]

Missouri,no inspections with historic plates
taxes are figured on what a real car has depreciated to

 

[moparnation74]

Ohio

 

[T2R9]

During my classic car "career" I have lived in San Diego, Maine, and currently SC. San Diego was Mopar heaven in the 80's but had to deal with smog, taxes, and traffic. Maine was pretty nice right down to not even having to deal with a DMV office. Here in SC its cheap to insure, register, and no inspections. Titles are required but as long as you have a legit car its not an issue. Only thing here is that AC is mandatory if you want to drive year round!

 

[NJRR]

New Jersey the worst for everything!

I'm going to disagree on one of the ratings for NJ. They gave a shitty grade on the roads. In the urban cities/towns, yes the traffic and road conditions suck. But, that's just a small part of the state. I live in the suburbs and the roads are nice to cruise on. Most of the Garden State Parkway, which runs the entire length of the state, is pretty nice. There are some rough spots that pass through some urban towns, but otherwise a nice cruising road. Also, the northwest part of the state, out near the PA border is nice for cruising. Otherwise, yeah, NJ sucks !!!!!

 

[Mjcre]

If your not familiar with your state’s requirements don’t trust Hagerty’s article. This article got about half the info for my state wrong.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Connecticut, Hagerty got it right LOUSY roads and traffic!

 

[beanhead]

Yeah I think their rating system is kinda BS....in CA , you pay a registration fee once a year, keep it insured and drive the wheels off it. Don't have to smog test anything older than '75 (thank goodness!) Costs me $127 a year, no inspections, no questions asked. Even when I registered it after it was off the books for 15 years. I noticed this article seems to be concerned with stuff newer than '75...Sorry, to me absolutely nothing newer than '75 is really a 'classic' (apologies to the bandit fire chicken drivers lol).

 

[Budnicks]

Rural Ca. where I live isn't like that...

the whole state isn't the same
from someone that actually lives here & knows what's up

no inspection stickers BS, like elsewhere,
we don't even have to do smog after the initial purchase 1st time

depending on the weight,
whether you need fenders etc. (hot rods/jeeps etc.)

we do have some high registration rates/fees
sort of high insurance too
that does suck, all my cars are older now
02 is my newest, 99 then 77 then 68

my insurance isn't bad, but I don't do stupid **** either
good driver haven't had a claim for 30 years etc.
I have family that pay far more in Oregon, my oldest sister
& a younger Dr. brother in Nevada with far less coverage
& I have full coverage & they have base insurance

you can now build one off specialty cars & register them
the past few years not have to jump thru hoops & barrels
without buying a old fraudulent pink/vin
(which is illegal by the way, still many builders did it)

but most of the state is, the Nanny State...
anywhere close to an Inner-Shitty, it's a damn totalitarian deal...

you have to know the laws where it is 'you chose to live'
in any state, especially if you're a car guy/gal

don't believe all the BS you read on the -www- or trolls/haters
lots of it is fake, completely false/wrong **** out there, even in that link
ill-informed/inaccurate

weather baby weather, we got pretty much everywhere else beat

 

[JackR]

The Arizona wrote up was pretty close. Year of manufacture vintage plates can be registered too which isn’t mentioned. Cheap yearly registration and no smog check with classic insurance.
I recently did a bonded title on a 69 roadrunner, the only bad was they used NADA on the value for the bond insurance. $500.00 for the insurance $3.00 for the title?

 

[steve from staten island]

New Jersey the worst for everything!

Except the shore