Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
If you build an automobile or submarine, what safety requirements are required?
To My Most Dearest Matt:
Let's say that hypothetically I made an automobile. What sort of specifications and safety requirements would I have to meet in order to get it registered in the State of California? Would I be able to name my auto after myself? What about other types of vehicles, like a submarine that I made out of trash cans? Hypothetically speaking, of course....
-- Ryan Corey, Del Mar
Jeepers creepers, Ryan, some government bodies certainly lack imagination, not to mention a sense of whimsy. The Coast Guard was so horrified by the havoc a recreational sub might wreak in local waters, they could hardly spit out an answer. They trust you'll keep your doomsday machine on the drawing board. Once they'd calmed down, they admitted our coast isn't plagued with home-built subs, and they'd have to guess at the official answer, based on existing recreational boating regulations. You'd need the usual state- and federally required safety and navigation equipment (I'll leave the research to you), then you'd just run the big tin can through the usual inspection required of any recreation vessel. But that also means, if you can manage to keep the length under eight feet and you don't have an engine, you can just plop it in the water and take off (pedaling fast, I guess). No registration required. The Coast Guard does suggest that you would be building a Boat of Death and would be sliced in half by a ski boat or a carrier in short order. And no doubt you'd be pulled to the curb by harbor patrols so often, you'd eventually just stick the thing in your backyard and forget the whole idea.
As for the Ryanmobile Mark V Turbo, your patchwork of parts, the DMV knows exactly how to deal with your type. They see guys like you all the time. You'd be registering a "specially constructed vehicle" (per the state Vehicle Code: a vehicle made from a kit or new and/or used parts, not intended for resale and not built by a specially licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer). And the DMV, of course, hopes you have your paperwork in order. The critical piece of junk in your Ryanmobile is the frame, to which is affixed the vehicle identification number. The state needs all the paper that shows where you got the frame, where the person who sold you the frame got the frame, and so on, until it can be traced back to a legally recognized whole vehicle. And once you're ready to roll, Sacramento doesn't care if the fenders are Ford's, the roof a Rambler, the doors a Datsun, and the trunk a Toyota. If the frame's a Chevy, your car's a Chevy. You can put "Ryanmobile" in fancy script on the grill if you like, but the DMV will just ignore you. Naturally, you'll have to meet all the state and federal safety regs and specs...blah, blah, blah. By the way, if you're planning to construct your own frame, you'll throw the bureaucrats into such a paperwork crisis, you may never drive again. I couldn't find anyone who knew how to get an original VIN. Happy motoring.
Here's something you might be interested in.
If you build an automobile or submarine, what safety requirements are required?
If you build an automobile or submarine, what safety requirements are required?
To My Most Dearest Matt:
Let's say that hypothetically I made an automobile. What sort of specifications and safety requirements would I have to meet in order to get it registered in the State of California? Would I be able to name my auto after myself? What about other types of vehicles, like a submarine that I made out of trash cans? Hypothetically speaking, of course....
-- Ryan Corey, Del Mar
Jeepers creepers, Ryan, some government bodies certainly lack imagination, not to mention a sense of whimsy. The Coast Guard was so horrified by the havoc a recreational sub might wreak in local waters, they could hardly spit out an answer. They trust you'll keep your doomsday machine on the drawing board. Once they'd calmed down, they admitted our coast isn't plagued with home-built subs, and they'd have to guess at the official answer, based on existing recreational boating regulations. You'd need the usual state- and federally required safety and navigation equipment (I'll leave the research to you), then you'd just run the big tin can through the usual inspection required of any recreation vessel. But that also means, if you can manage to keep the length under eight feet and you don't have an engine, you can just plop it in the water and take off (pedaling fast, I guess). No registration required. The Coast Guard does suggest that you would be building a Boat of Death and would be sliced in half by a ski boat or a carrier in short order. And no doubt you'd be pulled to the curb by harbor patrols so often, you'd eventually just stick the thing in your backyard and forget the whole idea.
As for the Ryanmobile Mark V Turbo, your patchwork of parts, the DMV knows exactly how to deal with your type. They see guys like you all the time. You'd be registering a "specially constructed vehicle" (per the state Vehicle Code: a vehicle made from a kit or new and/or used parts, not intended for resale and not built by a specially licensed manufacturer or remanufacturer). And the DMV, of course, hopes you have your paperwork in order. The critical piece of junk in your Ryanmobile is the frame, to which is affixed the vehicle identification number. The state needs all the paper that shows where you got the frame, where the person who sold you the frame got the frame, and so on, until it can be traced back to a legally recognized whole vehicle. And once you're ready to roll, Sacramento doesn't care if the fenders are Ford's, the roof a Rambler, the doors a Datsun, and the trunk a Toyota. If the frame's a Chevy, your car's a Chevy. You can put "Ryanmobile" in fancy script on the grill if you like, but the DMV will just ignore you. Naturally, you'll have to meet all the state and federal safety regs and specs...blah, blah, blah. By the way, if you're planning to construct your own frame, you'll throw the bureaucrats into such a paperwork crisis, you may never drive again. I couldn't find anyone who knew how to get an original VIN. Happy motoring.
Comments