| Lee Stewart |
02-19-2020 06:45 PM |
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In Kansas, aftermarket wheels (or anything else) violate classic car status
There has been some fine print in the Kansas regulations regarding vintage vehicles that states that any modifications made to a vehicle more than 35 years old can violate the owner’s right to an antique license plate.
“The vast majority of people have no idea, like myself, that technically with my vehicles I am in violation of the law,” Kansas state Rep. Stephen Owens, R-Hesston, recently told NBC television affiliate KSNW. Owens, who according to the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper, owns a 1927 Ford Model A, added that enforcement of the modification violation “has been stepped up” in the past year.
How strict has that enforcement been? People have had their antique tags confiscated for such things as putting aftermarket wheels on their vehicles.
One example reported by the television station: The owner of a 1967 Pontiac Firebird was stopped by a highway patrol officer for having the wrong wheels and tires on his car.
“You cannot have aftermarket tires and wheels on your vehicle with that classic tag,” the Firebird’s owner was told as he was tickets and his tags were impounded.
Rep. Owens is among those supporting House Bill 2528, which was introduced in January and which last week left the Committee on Transportation with a recommendation that it be passed by the full legislature.
The new bill would change language in the law to accept a vehicle as antique based on age, not on specific equipment installed since it was purchased.
https://journal.classiccars.com/2020...ic-car-status/
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