Getting around smog and registration laws

In my home state of Cali,they had a limit that any car older than 1975 was exempt from smog.
I know many early iron cars like Model A's and T's and Model B's have late model engines in them. How does your state deal with the smog laws? Similar to Cali?
I live in Texas now in a rural area and there are no smog laws as of yet. But they have safety check stations. Kind of hard for T's with seat belts and turn sigs and wipers.
How does your state deal with early iron Hot Rods? User friendly? Or does it need some lobbying?

 

In California, the exemption was any car older than '75 was exempt from being inspected every 2 years. However, every car must have every smog device that was required on that particular year car down to '55. Also regarding engine transplants, the cut off year was '83. Any car with an engine transplant after '83 was required to have all the smog devices for that year car. The engine must also be available in that model. This was to keep people from putting truck 454's into Camaros. Prior to '83, it went by the year of the engine.

 

Never heard of that, sorry. It has never come up in getting a car registered with a different engine.

Maybe if you are racing the cops can put the screws to you on this one, but for registration and titling its never come up.

I'm not saying it's not on the books, it just isn't enforced.

 

Yourcheck station is wanting to see seat belts and turn signals? I'd go to another station. In Texas the car is only required to have the safety equipment that was required the year the car was produced, which for a Model T or A is neither.

 

Oklahoma
No smog laws for any vehicles.
They check VIN and mileage to register.
They check nothing to renew tag.
'65 and earlier no seat belts required.

BUT, if you got'm you have to use them. If you get stopped and they're in there, you better have them ON.

Turn signals required to work if car was originally equipped with them.

 

Smog laws... safety checks... what are those ! Here in Alabama they just made liabilty insurance mandatory in the last three or four years.

 

It's a tool the cops have been using to crack down on street racing. In extreme cases, the have been taking the Air Resources Board and the BAR to inspect cars at illegal street races. The CHP, in conjunction with the BAR have also set-up smog compliance check points in my area. Kinda like a DUI checkpoint for stat purposes only.