> Where are you guys getting this interpretation? The reason auto restorers
>are up in arms over the so-called junker laws is because one main effect is
>to drastically decrease the availability of parts and further projects.
Lest we forget that one stipulation of the bail-out deal where the
government made loans to Chrysler in the late seventies to keep them from
going belly-up was that they destroy almost all of the parts and tooling to
make those parts (..a la Hemi and other motors) !
>From rumors that I have heard over the years , someone had been able to
snatch the tooling and dyes that were for the heads of the Hemi , but most
all of the rest of it is gone . That's why you can still get alot more
parts from GM on their older vehicles and if you have anything older than
an '81 K-Car from Chrysler , you're out of luck .
But it was a FACT that the government MADE Chrysler destroy the tooling for
certain engines and parts as a stipulation of the bail-out agreement .
Nobody
>is worried about the State coming to take our finished projects away. Well,
>at least until the next round of emissions pogroms and moving target
>inspections.
In case you don't know what a "Moving Target Inspection" is , and I think
this is what you are talking about , Ron , this is when the DOT (spurned on
by the Clean Air Act Gistapo) sits on the side of the road with a van , a
bunch of equipment , and a hard-on waiting for you to drive by . When you
do , they can point a device at your vehicle and it can get a reading on
EXACTLY what kind of emmisions your vehicle is putting out . I THINK they
do this with infrared) .
And if you think that they will never do it , think again , they have
already been testing it here in GA !!
>
Jack Hilton
Black '98 R/T Club Cab
http://www.mindspring.com/~hemi/jbd1.html
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