Cary,
Consider also the miles most of the collector cars are operated per year.
Our race cars probably are on the high end of emissions during a race but
they are raced but a few hours per year.
Yes, there are some old cars putting on many miles per year but their
numbers are diminishing by natural attrition. And yes, the restoration
parts business is in jeopardy by this legislation but it generates many
millions in revenue plus all that is spent by all those folks going
racing, doing shows, rod runs, autocrosses, swap meets, etc. Spending
funds for lodging, food, parts, fuel (even if they pollute a little along
the way). The impact to the economy might be greater than the potential
for cleaning the air.
Bill
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:05:28 EST EISANDIEGO@aol.com writes:
>
> As someone who has spent his entire career in the
> environmental feild,
> it is necessary for me to make a comment. I think that it is
> important that
> all of you do voice your opinions to your senators and congressman.
> However,
> please do so after you have taken the time to inform yourselves
> about why
> this effort is being undertaken. Perhaps it is not as bad as others
> would
> like you to think because it adversely impacts their businesses.
>
> Used on a daily basis, these older cars are substantially
> higher
> sources of air pollution than their modern replacements for daily
> commuting.
> To further improve air quality, it is simply more cost-effective to
> remove
> these older daily polluters than to try to improve new vehicle
> emissions.
>
> Improving the emission performance of new vehicle is becoming
>
> increasing costly. One struggles to make a very very small
> difference at a
> high price - just as one struggles to get more hp out of an already
> finely
> developed race engine. It is much more effective to remove cars from
> daily
> use that are already polluting hundreds to thousands of times higher
> levels
> than the new car.
>
> If we are honest with ourselves, we probably already each
> have more
> Triumph parts than we need. We have probably accummulated those
> parts by
> salvaging other cars ourselves. The fact that Triumphs are being
> scrapped is
> just a reflection of what a low value society places on a Triumphs.
> It costs
> much more to restore these cars than they are valued at by the
> general public
> and even other racers. This legislation will not change that
> society's
> perception of the marque.
>
> A bigger concern of mine is very honestly if anyone will be
> interested
> in the Triumph marque as we pass out of the racing picture. There
> are alot of
> wonderful new cars that are capturing the current generation's
> imagination.
>
> Cary
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