July 11, 2023 update

a) I slept from 2:30 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., decided not to go back to bed, because when I sit in a chair my hips and legs are free of pain. I will possibly sleep sitting up much of the day. How well my brain will work under the circumstances remains uncertain,

b) Getting the Red Car inspected entails a number of uncertainties, which make me think twice about the advice I gave you.

c) It's undetermined what faults of the "body computer", if any, should disqualify the car from passing inspection. Considering the fact that the Inspectors don't understand what the body computer does and have no tools with which to inspect the "body computer", I would advise presenting the car to them without a history and with the battery connected.

d) The DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) is frustrated by public opposition to its policies, expressed in the laws of the General Assembly to which the DMV is subject. E.g. the DMV seeks to circumvent the statutory requirement that drivers licenses not be restricted by age, by discriminating against older drivers by denying them the right of younger drivers to apply for renewal by Internet. In the issue of annual inspections, the DMV contradicts itself in that it classifies driving an uninspected car to be a "moving violation", while it also exploits its electronic records to charge uninspected cars parked on private property with a "moving violation."

e) The significance of a "moving violation" is that it effectively augments the statutory penalty of $40 by permitting the insurance company enhance their profits by levying an annual 20% surcharge for 6 years. It is unclear whether the statutory $40 penalty and/or the potentially much higher insurance penalty is applicable to the owner, to the driver or to both.

f) To blunt public anger at its petty tyranny, the DMV invites "appeals" from aggrieved drivers. Such appeas are said to be granted asa matter of course. There is no catalogue of the basis on which such appeals have been granted in the past either by the DMV or by the insurance companies

 g) Plausible basis for an appeal might be
g1) Refusal of AAA to move uninspected vehicle to inspection station
g2) Vehicle is registered to Belmont.
g3) Owner was physically unable to take vehicle to inspection station
g4) Insufficient number of inspection stations on Nantucket:
    Ack 1 station for summer population of 80,000. Ratio: 1:80000
    MA 1800 stations for population  of 6,985,000. Ratio: 1:3880.55
g5) Nantucket would require 20.6165 times as many stations as it has to make statewide standards applicable.