The inspection station is about 10 minutes away, then I sat in line about 10. Do you think I should warm it up more than that next time?

I had trouble sleeping last night worrying about the damn emissions. And a suspicious thing happened at the station. When I got in my truck to pull away I realized that my gauges weren't working. (They were fine just moments before)
I thought maybe a fuse blew or something, so I pulled over in the station lot and got out. The inspector came over and I told him there was a problem with my gauges which had been fine. He proceeds to tell me that my truck is a "dinosaur" and "I'm lucky it runs at all." He also said I got off "easy" because "all I got was a tailpipe check and it's much tougher on newer cars." Sheesh.<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" /> He then tells me to "bang on the dashboard" and sure enough the gauges started working again. What do you think was up with that?

Thank You to all the Veterans out there. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/patriot.gif" alt="" />