RE: [DMCForum] Student built cars

["Jeff Chabotte" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the big problem. The car companies try to convince us that we
need to buy THEIR cars.. Unfortunately, a huge portion of the general
populous isn't technically skilled enough to engineer their own vehicle.
It requires a lot of time and knowledge. Something most are lacking. And
even then, if they posses both of those abilities, they may not have the
provisions to do so.

I for one, would buy this car (the west philly attack) in a heartbeat if
the price was reasonable and produced in quantity.

-Jeff Chabotte
Norwich, CT
Griff's BMW

-----Original Message-----
From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bob Brandys
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:38 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Student built cars


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.

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.


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.

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!

BOB




 
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