What regulations does Virginia have that would force you to sell your old
cars? 1984 anybody?
John
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From: Dirk and Carla Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:43 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: <WOB>OT: EPA regs
> At 6:22 PM -0400 9/15/99, John Petrush wrote:
> >The USA's all-powerful EPA has another little surprise in store for us
> >called OBD III which stands for "On-board diagnostics Version # 3".
This
> >is the instruction set on new car electronic engine management systems
that
> >control all aspects of the car's operation.
>
> As a former vintage automobile enthusiast, I can sympathize with your
fears
> about gov't control over cars. I lost thousands of dollars on two old BMWs
> and a Porsche. The state of Virginia, where I live, does not want me to
> have them, so I have sold all but one of them, a 1971 BMW 2002. Email me
> off line if you are interested. We now lease a Saturn, and I want to buy
an
> electric car, the Sparrow, but do not have the funds after flushing all
> that money down the toilet called the "old car hobby."
>
> Fortunately, photography is a much less environmentally damaging hobby to
> pursue, mercury batteries and all. I was just thinking how wasteful
> flashbulbs are - use them once, toss them in the trash, can't recycle
them.
> Still small fry compared to the air pollution from cars (and trucks and
> busses, etc.).
>
> It also looks like I'm going to be known as "single coated man" since I
> lost out on yet another bidding war on eBay. This time a 50mm f/1.4 MC
that
> went for 91$. My max was 90$. Ah, yet to live and bid another day......
>
>
> Be seeing you.
>
> Dirk Wright
>
>
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