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[zman <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, ron thigpen wrote:
> very true.  closed-loop fuel injection systems and other engineering 
> advances have done wonders for emissions and performance.  there have 
> acutally been economists who advocated the buying up of cheap, high 
> polluting older vehicles and "retiring" them as a very cost effective 
> means of reducing output of certain pollutants.  one rusty, old buick 
> can be cheaper than one hundred new catalytic converters.  the 
> politically more palatable solution seems to be to let nature -- and 
> either oxidation or the collector's marketplace -- simply run their 
> course.
> and i seriously doubt you're going to convince scott that sending all 
> pre-1974 vehicles to the crusher is a good idea.  and let thee who comes 
> for my old ducati proceed with extreme caution.

Well the pollution credits given to Big Business for crushing old cars 
really piss me off. What they are doing is emptying the salvage yards of 
older collectable cars that aren't polluting at all. It's because they are 
being run at all. A well running restored classic car is not a gross 
violator. The better the engine runs, the more efficient the engine is, 
the less pollutants. Plus I'll convert to E85 in heartbeat, just give me 
somewhere to buy it. 

-- 
Scott H. Zekanis
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1959 GMC in Chevy Sheetmetal 1/2 Ton (235" Inline 6)