Re: [FWDLK] property taxes/old cars

[Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recall that some years ago the 55-6-7 T-Bird club had a convention in 
either Vegas or Reno. The city had Air Quality Sensors all around the 
city. It turned out that with over 3K 'Birds in town for near a week, 
the air Quality didn't change and may have improved. That really shut 
up the tree huggers that wailed that the cars would pollute the city.
Ray

On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Brent Burger wrote:

>     20 years ago the Nat'l DeSoto Club sponsored an emissions test 
> with one of the eastern states' facilities on club members' cars, 
> pitting them against an "average" of all other vehicles tested.  As I 
> recall, the oldies scored quite well.  It was speculated that the 
> collector car was maintained at a much higher level than the "typical" 
> daily driver of the masses, and therefore did so well.
>  
>     I believe the point of the test was to counter the lingering 
> impression in the public mind of old heavy cars that were just daily 
> drivers and not maintianed like collectors and enthusiasts will look 
> after them.  I certainly remember old finned jalopies going down the 
> road, leaning to one side with the muffler dragging on the ground and 
> a cloud of blue smoke fogging the intersection when the light turned 
> green.  The timing for finned cars to be the common "old car" on the 
> road was coincidental with the growing ecology movement of the sixties 
> and early seventies.  Add in the oil embargo/s of 73-74 and the iconic 
> image of wreckless consumption and environmental destruction to many 
> people was the big, old, gas guzzling pig of a car.  It was the final 
> straw for many of the finned cars.  The owners just parked them and 
> got an econobox.  By 1980, many people we asked just GAVE us these 
> cars that had been sitting idle for 5 years, just to get them out of 
> the driveway - they were eyesores.
>  
>     We were more than happy to accomodate !  ;-D
>  
>     B.
>  
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