Thread: Future of the Classic

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I found this forum while searching for Virgina laws on re-titling vehicles. There was a thread when the law first came out in ? 2007?.

I found one of the posts troubling.

One of my goals in life is to have a classic 60's car as my daily driver. I'd like to upgrade the performance all around so it steps over the line from Classic to Street Rod. Depending on how you interpret the Virginia law, you might think I have to re title the vehicle.

I like Hot Rods, and if get down my list of 5 or 6 vehicles, I'd like to build a Hot Rod myself. I love to see them driving by so thanks to all of you in the hobby/profession.
I can see why passing the Virginia law was appreciated, now having a better guidance to keep it legal. Its probably better than the SEMA template.

The post that troubled me said that the 5000 mi /yr limit was " responsible". I think we need to be responsible, but I contest that assertion related to mileage limits. I think it is in all of our best interest to understand why. While we don't want to discuss politics in general in a Hot Rod forum, to preserve our avocation we need to be politically involved.

For the sake of argument I am going to assume that CO2 is destroying the globe. If I am lucky I can afford maybe 1 classic. If I could afford 3 I could drive 15,000 miles a year and make them my daily drivers and add just as much CO2 as driving the one 15,000 miles. As far as CO2 is concerned, it's not the number of miles I drive one car but the gallons of gasoline I use each year. That's the measure of CO2. What if my classic has a six speed driven on the highway and yours has a 3 speed driven through town?
I'd like to drive my classic on vacations, visiting friends. Should I trailer it ? How much CO2 will I produce then? What if I own a boat and go water skiing when I'm not driving my classic? A modern boat will produce more CO2 then my classic. What if I heat and cool a big house? There are many examples of this inequity.

What's responsible is making sure we are building safe vehicles with non stolen parts, that limit production of the other pollutants. Attempting to limit CO2 emissions by limiting mileage per vehicle is inequitable and therefore irresponsible. Unfortunately our politicians are not competent to provide equal justice so we need to help them quite a bit and this means being very politically involved.
If not we may end up owning museum pieces.

Sparafucile

CO2 is a foundational building block of our food chain. All this "global warming/climate change/latest obfuscation" is about political power and control of the populace.............same ol' game with a different vehicle. Shed the guilt, enjoy a fun car, and thumb your nose at the personal power mongers.

On the internet last week (it must be true, I read it on the internet) the article was about "where does fat go when you lose weight?" The answer was most of it was converted to CO2. Therefore, IF you really want to be "green", you should vow to never lose weight....that means us chubby folks are more environmentally aware than our skinny equals. Gee, I'm a greenie!