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That could be fun. I wonder if it will suffer from overheating issues under load being stuffed into a small space like the diesel does?
 

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Must be something wrong if you gotta bring a trailer 🤣
“The truck is not equipped with catalytic converters, has not been inspected by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair, and has not passed a California smog test”
"This Gladiator is offered by the selling dealer in California with a window sticker and a clean Florida title." Californians have been licensing in Florida since the 80s (probably even before that). My schoolmate had a modified 5.0 Mustang with Florida plates that had a license plate frame - "I don't drive fast, I fly low." Yeah he was a major douchebag. :beer::CWL:
 

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Another solution for the 3.6 "tick".
 

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Who ever built that - ouch the depreciation. 50k. With only 11k miles on the build.
 

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Must be something wrong if you gotta bring a trailer 🤣
“The truck is not equipped with catalytic converters, has not been inspected by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair, and has not passed a California smog test”
Definitely cannot be be registered in CA, ever. I wonder what the buyer intends to do with it.
 

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Definitely cannot be be registered in CA, ever. I wonder what the buyer intends to do with it.
That’s probably why they’re selling. May have thought they found a loophole but it turned out that Cali still sucks. Now they’re trying to recover some lost funds.
 

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Definitely cannot be be registered in CA, ever. I wonder what the buyer intends to do with it.
Depends on where they live they could registered and drive it. Where I live in TX we don't even have an inspection. We used just have a safety inspection to check lights, horn, brakes, windshield wipers and blinkers but there was still a lot of fraud going on with that so the state did away with that starting in 2025 but we still have to pay the $7.50 fee but no inspections any more. Some parts have an emissions test but most do not.
 

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I was following it. Not a bad deal, but the headache of no cats (as many have mentioned) not worth the hassle.
 

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It states a Bruiser Conversions build, which they are in Florida. Probably as said already, someone in Cali thought they had a loophole to get it tagged and found out otherwise.

I kind of like it.
 

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Here's was my question since it wasn't "smogged"/ catted. How difficult/spendy to make it that way?

I know catalytic convertors can be speedy and custom exhaust ain't cheap...
 

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A little off topic but it has a complete soft top which is confusing as Bestop says they do not make this for a Gladiator am I missing something
 

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Must be the Moparsoft top not Sunrider
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