It is good to see sanity prevail in government on occasion. I lived in
Maricopa County until 2004 and I spent countless hours tweaking my very
sweet running '71 TR6 through emissions testing. Try getting a smooth idle
in 105 degree air temperatures.
I can't help but think that the Leyland engineers who designed these
primitive emissions control systems would have laughed their arses off had
they known that the cars would be expected to meet emissions requirements 35
years down the road.
I recall John Horton working this issue years ago, bravo John.
Darrell
>Maricopa (Phoenix area) and Pima (Tucson) counties in Arizona finally have
>the Fed's OK to stop emission testing "collector" cars (15 years or
>older with collector car insurance). The AZ law passed back in April 2005
>but then the Fed's required a whole lot of work be done for them with a
>report documenting everything be sent to them and then they had to approve
>it which they just did. I've got pieces from an article in today's Arizona
<Republic below as well as a link to their web site with the entire
>article. The John Horton they quote is a member of this list. He has put in
>countless hours lobbying, tracking, rounding people up to attend public
>hearings, making sure the public officials moved this along, so much so
>they
>are all on a first name basis with him.
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