Re: [DMCForum] Student built cars

[Jon Heese <dmcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And wouldn't it be some dramatic irony if some of the students from 1975 
were now among the industry naysayers that today's students are proving 
wrong...

Regards,
Jon Heese

Bob Brandys wrote:
> That battery/diesel hybrid built by students reminds me of the student 
> cars of the mid 70s.  I was in charge of the Urban Vehicle Design 
> Competition for the University of Ill, Dept of Engineering at Chicago.  
> Students from around the country built cars that complied with the 1975 
> final strict emission  standards for cars.
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> Car makers at the time were claiming they could not meet the standards 
> and a bunch of student from around the country all built cars and 
> engines that met the standards.   T he funniest story was the army 
> equipped an old jeep with fuel injection and it even met the standards.
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> Well, move the clock ahead 30 years and we have student doing what 
> detroit says they can not do!  Well, if history repeats itself, the 
> students are right and Detroit is wrong.
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> I am sure that  there is no collusion between Detroit convincing us 
> that we need 8000 SUVs and 10 mpg and we finally most people have them, 
> then they raise the price of gas.   Hey, didn't they do the same thing 
> with the 71-74 cars that kept getting worse mileage and then in 75 they 
> put on catalytic convertors and mileage jumped.  But then they had 
> already orchestrated a fake fuel shortage and double the price of gas 
> too!
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> BOB
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