PREPARE YOURSELF FOR STICKER SHOCK This column originally appeared on Wicked Local . Gone are the days when I could get my inspection sticker at that special garage up in Everett where they would close the garage door behind you (always suspicious), put your car up on the lift, and rev up the engine until it passed the emissions test. And we are way past the days of my dad’s 1973 Volkswagen bus (made famous in an earlier article) which once passed the state inspection without a horn. When the mechanic told my dad to beep the broken horn, he just shouted, “beep,” and a sticker was placed on the front windshield. This year, the state of Massachusetts has implemented changes. Each inspection station licensed to give stickers would now be forced to purchase roughly $7,000 of new equipment from Applus Technologies in order to meet the new state regulations including five cameras to film and record each inspection for the RMV, a handheld device, wireless testing equi