I bet you could not get an emissions ilegal engine in a car but I bet you
could order the engine and slime it in your self with out any one else being
the wiser.
Ray Colbert
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> From: Jay Mitchell[SMTP:jemitchell@compuserve.com]
> Reply To: Jay Mitchell
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 6:23 PM
> To: Kent Rafferty; autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Kit cars in Prepared
>
> Kent wrote:
>
> >Jay, as much as you'd like to disagree with Ray,
> >your post supports what he's claiming.
>
> No. Whereas your misquote makes that attempt, my words do not support his
> claims.
>
> > You concede
> >in your post that Lotus may have made some cars to
> >custom-order.
>
> "Customer order" is not the same thing as "custom order. Go back and look
> at the passages you quoted from my post. Lotus was not alone in making
> cars to _customer_ order. The practice was engaged in by Porsche,
> Ferrari, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes, Roll-Royce, and any number of other
> manufacturers at that time. MOF, It's STILL done.
>
> Ray claimed you could get "anything you want" on a Lotus ordered at the
> factory, which is patent nonsense. You could NOT, for example, get an
> emissions-illegal engine in a car being shipped to the US. Nor could you
> buy a car that failed to meet US safety regs. That severely limited what
> _any_ manufacturer could offer in this market.
>
> Jay
>
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