spacemeat said:
i'd expect the state to be consistent with its regulations but i get different information every time i check
Welcome to the confusion state! lol
Inspection USED to be required for vehicles over 10 YO, Salvaged titles, (unless it was totaled for BODYWORK ONLY) Composite (kit) cars and new constructions NOT from a factory. (ie you build a new car from scratch).
Then the emmisions snafu came in and they didn't have enough people to replace all the ones in the testing stations AND do inspections, so they dropped inspections to re-staff the emmisions stations. Now I "think" the only thing you have to get inspected is salvaged, composite and new constrution.
I DID find something a while back about headlight height, but it was based on GVW and had a minimum height that was a bit off the wall, something like 24" minimum for ALL vehicles! hmm, how many small cars have lights that high? more like 20" I think.