It's update time again for all the people on the web.
After standing by the phone for about two weeks a person from the DMV called back on the SB100. They wanted more paper work. (Thats what the DMV is all about, paper work.) So the paper work they wanted was the paper I used when getting a VIN number. So a quick 10 page fax over to them seems to taken care of what they wanted. Then another 2 more weeks go by weighting for that call from the BAR to tell me I can reschedule a SMOG appointment. Well the call finally came back and it was bad news,,, The BAR told me that the DMV was going to deny and revoke the SB100 exemption. WHAT, WHAT... Then they told me I can still drive it just it needs to be 2010 SMOG compliant. Ah, Ok so some one needs to be "trained" on the law and how to do there job. All I could get from the BAR was, because I used an OEM cab and doors it looked like the production truck it was before. I don't think so,,
What do you think? I know it does not look like a production truck or even close to what it did before.

So I made a call to the Chief of the DMV registration department to see if he can get this squared away for me. (Same guy I talked to 3+ years before.) So I explained to him what I had and how it was built. He asked what the chaise was? I told him there was no frame or chaise. I built it, along with everything else. So he asked me to send him pictures to him. That was easy enough. So off they go and back to sitting on my hands wile the fate of my build rests with some higher up political person in the DMV. Well one more week goes by and I get another call from the BAR. The person tells me that the DMV is retracting there last decision of revoking my AB100 and is now telling them that it's all good and they are granting me my SMOG exemption.
So the moral of this story is to have persistence, call the top and let the trickle down theory to work it's magic.

So thank you, Andrew Conway, Chief of the Registration Policy and Automation Branch of DMV.