PA Hotrodders - Heads up. Legislators in your state want more of your money...!

[Southernman]

URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT

Pennsylvania Bill Would Increase Fees for Street Rods, Antiques, Classics & Collectible Vehicles.

Legislation (H.B. 8A) introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature threatens to increase fees for all vehicle owners. Under the bill, general passenger cars will face a $13 increase in their registration fee, while the one-time registration fee for antique, classic and collectible vehicles will go up by $27 (from $75 to $102) and the initial registration fee for street rods by $29 (from $20 to $51).

Additionally, each of these fees would be increased every year. Under Pennsylvania law, an antique motor vehicle is a motor vehicle manufactured more than 25 years prior to the current year, a classic motor vehicle is a motor vehicle manufactured at least 15 years prior to the current year; a collectible motor vehicle is a reconstructed or modified motor vehicle substantially modified from the manufacturer's original specifications and appearance and maintained in a collectible condition, and a street rod is a motor vehicle, or a reproduction thereof, with a model year of 1948 or older which has been materially altered or modified by the removal, addition or substitution of essential parts and with a gross weight or registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.

We Urge You to Contact Members of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee (List Below) Immediately to Request Their Opposition to H.B. 8A

Currently, the owner of a vehicle applying for antique, classic or collectible registration pays a one-time $75 registration fee. H.B. 8A would increase this fee to $102.


Currently, the owner of a street rod pays an initial registration fee of $20 and an annual registration renewal fee equivalent to the general passenger vehicle registration fee of $36. H.B. 8A would increase the initial registration fee for street rods to $51 and the general passenger vehicle registration fee (which street rod owners must pay for registration renewal) to $49.


These fees would further increase each year under H.B. 8A by a percentage of this initial increase.


H.B. 8A ignores the fact that these older cars are infrequently driven (about one-third the miles each year as a new vehicle) second or third vehicles and deserving of reduced registration fees.


H.B. 8A ignores the fact that many antique, classic and collectible vehicles are owned and maintained by low and fixed income Americans who are less able to afford a higher, annual fee.

DON’T DELAY! Please contact members of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee immediately by e-mail to request their opposition to H.B. 8A.

Here's the link to the above article, where you can get ALL of your PA reps contact information.

http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62808

Southernman

 

[Pistol Pete]

Geez, does it ever end ? The reg. on my truck is already $153.00. WTF ???

 

[MRHWS]

You can end it by who you vote into office.

 

[Ron 73]

URGENT LEGISLATIVE ALERT

Pennsylvania Bill Would Increase Fees for Street Rods, Antiques, Classics & Collectible Vehicles.

Legislation (H.B. 8A) introduced in the Pennsylvania legislature threatens to increase fees for all vehicle owners. Under the bill, general passenger cars will face a $13 increase in their registration fee, while the one-time registration fee for antique, classic and collectible vehicles will go up by $27 (from $75 to $102) and the initial registration fee for street rods by $29 (from $20 to $51).

Additionally, each of these fees would be increased every year. Under Pennsylvania law, an antique motor vehicle is a motor vehicle manufactured more than 25 years prior to the current year, a classic motor vehicle is a motor vehicle manufactured at least 15 years prior to the current year; a collectible motor vehicle is a reconstructed or modified motor vehicle substantially modified from the manufacturer's original specifications and appearance and maintained in a collectible condition, and a street rod is a motor vehicle, or a reproduction thereof, with a model year of 1948 or older which has been materially altered or modified by the removal, addition or substitution of essential parts and with a gross weight or registered gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.

We Urge You to Contact Members of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee (List Below) Immediately to Request Their Opposition to H.B. 8A

Currently, the owner of a vehicle applying for antique, classic or collectible registration pays a one-time $75 registration fee. H.B. 8A would increase this fee to $102.


Currently, the owner of a street rod pays an initial registration fee of $20 and an annual registration renewal fee equivalent to the general passenger vehicle registration fee of $36. H.B. 8A would increase the initial registration fee for street rods to $51 and the general passenger vehicle registration fee (which street rod owners must pay for registration renewal) to $49.


These fees would further increase each year under H.B. 8A by a percentage of this initial increase.


H.B. 8A ignores the fact that these older cars are infrequently driven (about one-third the miles each year as a new vehicle) second or third vehicles and deserving of reduced registration fees.


H.B. 8A ignores the fact that many antique, classic and collectible vehicles are owned and maintained by low and fixed income Americans who are less able to afford a higher, annual fee.

DON’T DELAY! Please contact members of the Pennsylvania House Appropriations Committee immediately by e-mail to request their opposition to H.B. 8A.

Here's the link to the above article, where you can get ALL of your PA reps contact information.

http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62808

Southernman

Thats the truth, last summer i paid 75 for my antique plates now this, whats next guys, I get email updates from SEMA on this stuff you would be surprised at whats happening now and the things our government, that know NOTHING ta all about us and our cars, are up to. Our cars without the emissions adds how much in carbon monoxide in the air a year? HEY GOOF-BALLS our cars aren't driven every day, we arent using them year around. Im gettin sick thinking about the NONSENCE. Wonder how many teachers that teach my grandkids know what there teaching? They think the raise in ethonal will hurt us, carborated cars, water drawing ethonal doesn't affect fuel injection? doesn't cause rust in tanks, gas lines? It wont change how the emissions tests come out with catalytic converters?, they don't know what there even doing.

 

[69clone]

That sucks... And yet i saw on the news lastnight that the mayor in philly just gave the cheif of police, if i remember right, a huge pay raise... 192k to 260k or something like that...

 

[Cranky]

You can end it by who you vote into office.

ALL of them are crooks!