What constitutes a "California" car?

[priderocks]

As I understand it, certain emission stuff was unique to "California" cars. So my question is , is a California car considered to be one made at the LA factory, or is it a car sold in California?

[Alaskan_TA]

Yes, yes & maybe.

LA built cars for sale in & outside of CA.

Hamtramck built cars for sale in CA with N95.

LA only made E-Bodies for the 1970 model year.

It just depends on what you have exactly.

[bb71challenger]

My 70 'Cuda was built in LA, it had dual exhaust with dual chrome tips and was delivered to a town in Texas so it was not built to be bought in California. I consider it an LA car only because it was built there.

[Alaskan_TA]

What engine? Not all CA cars came without bright tips. 

[bb71challenger]

340. I thought that all the performance engines with dual exhaust had to have the turndowns. 
My car was made to go fast on a budget it looked like. That car has been gone for years but I still remember the options. FJ5 over FJ5, black interior, 340, slapstik, console, hood pins, rallye dash, manual brakes, manual steering, am radio, hockey sticks, dual chrome tips like stated earlier, dual painted mirror, 15" rallye wheels and sure grip. Dont remember for sure what ratio though.

[Alaskan_TA]

Nope, but lets make it easy to save time....

What were all the N codes on your fender tag?

[bb71challenger]

Only ones I can remember Barry are N85 tachometer and N95. I was so let down that it was not the shaker option lol. One number away. It was made with California emissions, does that mean it was legal to buy it with the dual tips?

[Alaskan_TA]

If it was a 1970 car that had N95, it was built for California sale.

If it also had N97, then it had the noise reduction package (turn down tips included with N97).

N97 is found on N95 B-bodies with 383, 440, 440-6 & Hemi HP engines & E-bodies with 440-6 or Hemi.

[bb71challenger]

Yeah it was a 70. Wow, you learn something every day or at least I have the last couple of days. Sure wish I had kept that car. It sat in my backyard in very rough project state before I listened to my wifes *****in, yanked some nice parts off of it and gave it away. 

[js27]

My car is Hamtramck built but has a N95 code. I bought it from the second owner who lived in Calif and towed the car back to PA where I bought it. It has chrome tips and say so on the broadcast sheet. I talked to Galen about this years ago and he said that mostly Cuda's had the turn down's instead of the chrome tips but had no reason why.
JS27

[bb71challenger]

Governor Ronald Reagan got a law passed that required cars to have the turn downs to cut down on noise pollution is why they were supposed to be on Cali cars. I dont know why some would have the turndowns and some would not though.

[moparmaniac59]

I call my car a California car (of sorts) simply because it was purchased new in California and that's where it remained until I purchased it in 2006. I'm not even sure what plant it was manufactured, it just resided in CA most of it's life!!


                                            Matt B.

[472 R/T SE]

My LA built, N95, A66 Challenger has chrome tips.  A military man bought it new from the Bay area.  Still researching trying to figure out which dealership it was bought from.

[LAA66]

 My 70 A66 is LA built and was sold 150 miles north in Buellton Ca.

 Iverson motors, "Home of the Hiking Viking" (as they advertised). I called them and asked about old records but no luck.

[priderocks]

My car was built in LA but sold new in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I am trying to put it back like it originally was, except I don't have the original tag. The engine is a 383 (it's an R/T), and the reason I asked the question was I'm almost sure the car came with the three-nipple breather, as it has the five-nipple vent manifold in the back, and the four-nipple gas tank. So I figured it was an ECS car, and thought all ECS cars were California only.