[BluesDuke]

It almost figures. And it will not be, likely, just the vintage muscle cars of the 1960s which get nicked by this one. What about those of us with passions for classic pre-1960s cars - mine own is for the vintage Packard, my fantasy is ultimately to own a nicely restored vintage Packard. What about folks (I have met many over the years) who love restoring other antique automobiles? What about those members of the clubs who restore old Corvairs (Mr. Nader's favourite compact, of course), or old Lincolns (I have a fondness for those, too; in fact, there but for the lack of $10,000 could I have had a pair of fully-restored 1950s Lincolns about ten years ago - a 1959 Continental convertible, and a 1957 Premier sedan), or the Edsel (don't laugh, they do it, and those cars were better than their rep cracked them up to be), or the Hudson, or the Nash Rambler, or even the Kaiser (you probably know this one best as the cars the bad guys normally drove in the early seasons of the television classic The Adventures of Superman)? Will they, too, have their labours of love consigned to the scrap heap because they are older than 15 and by today's arbitrary enough standards fuel inefficient?

[John Jamieson]

The way I read it, you can keep your Corvair if you want to. I object to the waste of my taxes however. Why should you get more than its real market value out of my taxes?

[BraveMan]

I wonder what they'd consider appropriate payment for this old girl?

I'm averaging around 3MPG . . . (heh heh heh)