Most of united States is pretty lax on inspection laws. For instance, Indiana is a known home, to a lot of Amish people. Because of this, they have very basic inspections (i.e hardly any) so there are horse drawn carriages on the roads with all the other vehicles, some have heaters and a/c, tinted windows, stereos, and all have lights. Not to mention half the vehicles there are rust heaps from the snow and salt. Their inspection consists of, "do the lights work and is all the glass intact, are the tires round?!" .
Texas is pretty lax, if the vehicle is over 25 years old, it goes through what is called a safety inspection. Basically involves checking suspension, brakes and windows, mirrors and lights. You can run open pipes, no mufflers, stax out the hood, headers out the hood, no cat converters. This is why I loved my 78c-10.My neighbors thought my car was loud, till i got the truck.Hi compression trefiddy with gnarly cam and headers to straight pipe! Window rattler. The they thought the truck was loud, until Frank Yee Brought his drag car over. Now they are all pretty civil once they understood what LOUD really is.
Antique tags can apply to 25 year and older cars and you don't even inspect them, register every 10 years or so...But driven only to parades, mechanics, and special occasions. Sounds Volvo legit to me! But, i daily drive mine everywhere. I always want to drive it, why wouldn't I? My customer with 87 supra race car just got his antique tags for the soup. He's ecstatic.
Unless you live in the city, most inspections are safety inspections. However, if you live in the city (in the US mostly)and your car is 93 or newer, then you have to worry about abs lights being on, check engine lights being on, and cats and mufflers , cracks in glass from one end to the other. If you have any warning lights on you fail basically, If your drive cycle monitors were just cleared-then you have to wait for them to cycle and test and pass before inspection,(drive 50 miles cycle the key five times-wait for computer to do its thing) and you are required to dyno your car for emissions reasons. No power sheet given
. Strict in that respect.
Mine has a little less than a year to go, so still risky for me. But I don't try to act like a 19 year old in a v8 mustang, however I still am a 19 year old in a mustang when I drive this heap, to most people, and if you just see the videos I post and not my actual driving habit in person, then you would assume the same. So wut.
Cops stop me to ask what is going on, out of the hood, to make jokes, and to take pictures. Here in Texas, or in Houston anyways, they are more concerned about you having car insurance (because so many people here, foreign and domestic run no papers) than they are about inspection stickers and registrations stickers, which just got changed to a all in one sticker for us. Inspection first, then go to county office and register to get your sticker.
I have not gotten pulled over since I brought the turbo out of the hood, but I have been waved to pull over and talk to cops. No tickets or warnings yet. Where is some wood to knock on?