Your assuming.....Washington states emissions are as strict as Commiefornias
In Washington there is only 5 counties that even require smog testing and to get collector plates your car would have been out of the smog check by at least 2 years any way , so there is no way getting collector plates would get you out of testing..And we dont get pulled over by emissions police and checked EVER
In the year 2012 the cutoff age for a car getting an emissions test in Washington state every 2 years is.. 1988
Ok, say you have a car so fucking nice you only drive it on nice days ,by the reporters argument you couldn`t even drive it to work to show it off ...not even once. Because you would be doing you regular commute to get to work. And should be punished.
But the real problem ( the only really ) is what HE considers a classic car and what HE considers pleasure driving. I like rolling my old cars to the store,,,in the rain,, cause my commute for the last 16 years is approximately .. 75 feet