Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.
Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.
How about no.
ICE cars shouldn’t be common. Cars in general shouldn’t be as common as they are. A handful of guys running around in old restored ICE cars are far from any real problem. They’re putting a lot of work into keeping them going (and it’s often more work than money).
From an engineering perspective, there’s a lot of fascinating tweaks you can make to an ICE. How does spark timing affect things? Cam timing? Changing bore or stroke? The engineering behind it has a long history that’s worth preserving. It just needs to go away as a mass market thing.
You wanna drive it? Convert to EV.
You wanna preserve history, put it in a museum. I make an exception to your point if it is a museum’s functional demo model that runs on biofuels.
Why? What is really the problem? The pollution is negligible to the point that it’s not even worth discussing.
They should be driven. It’s a bit counterintuitive, but they’ll last longer if they’re driven. What happens is that when parts break, they get fixed, and that means there’s a market available for spare parts. You can daily drive a Model-T Ford today because they’re still common enough to have a parts market.
Huff on a tailpipe for a few minutes then come back to tell me how insignificant it is. ICE needs to die.
Yes, what of it? ICE lawn mowers are a bigger source of pollution than a handful of people running around in classic cars a few sundays per summer.
There is no problem that needs to be solved here.
The lawnmowers need to go too.
And you’ll solve a lot more problems doing it.
Saying classic cars need to go is just asinine. Zero pollution isn’t even possible, and it’s a fool’s errand to try.