['ol Pinion head]

Cant put much stock in a ranking article that knocks 100 points off for states that require a safety inspection. Living in a state that eliminated safety inspections near 20 years ago, sure eliminating the yearly safety inspection freed up interruptions at independepent repair shops, but it also allowed an absolute sea of poorly maintained vehicles to run up and down our streets & busiest interurban expressways. Drivers with parts falling off their cars, totally worn out tires peeling chunks off & bouncing up at speed scuffing the finish on your vehicle. Road debris & a deluge of idiot drivers are exactly why l have no interest in playing the driver game with my Pontiacs.

The condition of roads criteria is also not that well thought out. Having driven all over my home state, there are many many fine condition roads, yet we have a "poor" notated for road conditions. As my state does not have the monstrous road resurfacing budget of a Minnesota or a Florida, sure some roads aren't in that good of shape. If the cruiser/ bug smacker realm was whatever I iived with my Pontiacs, I'm sure all across the state, I would have no problem finding different routes to drive on very nice condition roads. thus the road condition ranking is very arbitrary, all it does is rewards states with high gas taxes & monstrous road resurfacing programs.

Just change the points value on these two criteria and the results of the "rankings" are much different. The number 1 factor I'd take out of this "article" is how much does it cost in fees/taxes to register a collectible vehicle in this state or that. Some states, those costs are very high. Cost of living, whether a state has state income tax, high property taxes, climate, state beauty, all factors into where one might want to relocate. Each also factor into affordability & ease of owning from one to multiples of collector vehicles.