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Re: 1500 Venting

To: Spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: 1500 Venting
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:21:30 -0500 (EST)
Trevor Boicey wrote:
>
> Larry Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > Why do you think ignorant people should be restricted by law that more
> > enlightened people can circumvent?
>
>   Well, that's the problem isn't it?
>
>   Governments can't differentiate between responsible and
> considerate modifications to cars, and yahoos. There is
> no wallet-sized "Not an Idiot" card you could flash to
> the emissions test mechanic while you explain that
> the Weber DGV you have installed is a lot cleaner than
> the original water-choke ZS you removed.
>
>   The guy behind you in line is just as convinced that
> his quad webers and scrotal oil catch jar is the
> right thing to do. ;>
>
>   Anyways, some people just don't get it.
>
>   This world of ours has produced hundreds of thousands
> of automotive engineers, studying their entire lives,
> working in fully equipped labs with corporate funding,
> assistants, measuring tools, everything that the world
> could possibly give them to help make cars better.
>
>   ...yet there will always be yahoos who think they
> can do better in their garage, without reading manuals
> or even understanding basic concepts.

AND THEN SOMEONE COMES ALONG AND (GOD FORBID) PUTS A WEBER CARB ON THEIR CAR
AND SCREWS THE WHOLE
THING UP!!!

JOE

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