Re: [FWDLK] property taxes/old cars

[Roger Schaaf <obiwan10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been to Reno with my motorcycles to attend the annual Street 
Vibrations motorcycle event(or Hot August Nights).

http://road-shows.com/street_vibrations.php

http://www.hotaugustnights.net/

If these dopes go that apoplectic over a couple thousand or so T-Birds in 
town for a few days, they must go really around the bend with a couple 
hundred thousand motorcycles.  Just to see them scurrying around would be 
worth the price of admission.  Are these the same folks who have kept us out 
of nuclear energy for the past 30 years?

Roger Schaaf


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Jones" <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] property taxes/old cars


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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