New York and 10 Other States Get Tough on Emissions
Though it shouldn’t have any direct effect on collector cars, a new round of stricter auto emissions requirements, expected to sweep the Northeast, could raise the price of your next new daily driver...
View ArticleCalifornia Law Addresses Hot Rod/Kit Car Emissions
California long led the nation in smog, so it’s no wonder they’ve long led in efforts to reduce it, as well. Now, in addition to publishing the CARB (California Air Resources Board) standard that drive...
View ArticleOK for CO kits
Governor Owens received it on May 11, but there’s no reason to think he won’t sign HB 06-1176 into law. “An Act Concerning the Authorization of Kit Motors Vehicles,” 1176 will repeal a section of the...
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Fuel economy, emissions, and a CVCC-equipped Chevrolet Impala
Impala image courtesy lov2xlr8.no; CVCC image courtesy Honda Media. Many Americans saw the advent of the catalytic converter in the mid-1970s as a necessary evil to make sure automobiles passed the...
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Cars of Futures Past – 1975 Honda Civic CVCC
1974 Honda Civic CVCC; the car debuted in the U.S. for 1975. Photos courtesy Honda North America. In 1970, the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1963 was amended with the addition of the “Muskie Law,” which...
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How a bunch of college kids convinced Detroit to cut smog in 1970
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu entered by the Tufts University team in the 1970 Clean Air Car Race. Photo from the Tufts Digital Library. The whine of a turbine filled the air. Electric cars scooted...
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Project Wagoneer – vacuum sucks
Photo by the author. Invariably, buying a used, high-mileage late-Seventies vehicle will result in one of life’s biggest headaches: untangling the vacuum and emissions tubing rats’ nest mess left...
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Four-Links – current-ish events edition
Photo by sv1ambo. * That Volkswagen emissions scandal isn’t the company’s first, nor is it the first time the company’s been caught with emissions defeat devices. As The Detroit Bureau (and a couple...
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EPA: Race cars have always required factory emissions equipment; SEMA:...
Photos by the author. In response to an outcry over the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to require intact factory emission control devices on race cars, the EPA maintained that has always...
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New bill aims to place competition vehicles out of EPA’s reach
Photo by Steve Berry. Claiming that the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending race car ruling poses a restriction on personal freedom, four Congressmen this week introduced a bill intended to...
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EPA removes racecar language from greenhouse gas regulation, says its...
Photo by the author. All in the same statement released on Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency promised to rescind contentious language that motorsports enthusiasts say targeted them,...
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California legislature considers breaks for Seventies cars, crackdown on...
Photo by the author. If the California state legislature’s various attempts to make laws concerning older cars this year are to be considered as a whole, then the cutoff for collector cars exempt from...
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Even with removal of racecar language from final EPA ruling, SEMA pushes...
Photo by the author. Nowhere in this month’s issuance of new greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty trucks by the Environmental Protection Agency does the agency ban the conversion of street cars...
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