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1973 cuda help needed

DetMatt1

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I'm 100% against having a tag produced to make something it's not. There are so many instances where a tag is misplaced, thank God for quality reproductions. They aren't making these cars anymore so let's best preserve the ones that are left.
 

74chlngrTT5.9

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A lot of features on the Edsels were just ahead of their time. But the external styling was hard to take. Insurance was a major reason that they killed performance in 72 and up. Cubic inches down, compression down, cam lift and duration down. Horsepower and torque, down. Big ugly bumper guards. Fewer people wanted the cars that no longer had the performance that they were born with. Look at the production figures each year. At least in California they were supposed to after 25 years, each year drop the smog requirements. They went back to 1973 and changed their minds. That is now the permanent cutoff year for smog. So we are lucky for that at least. Now we can put the performance back that the EPA took away.
How is your Challenger coming by the way ? Going to hit the streets soon ?

X3 and X4 on the price being too high for what the car is.

I have mine assembled and drivable enough to be attending the Woodley park show.

The Ca smog requirements were changed to be 73 and earlier. When the cars became 25 years old. But the next round to drop off needed to reach 30 years. I had to continue smog test it another 2 times. When the 30 years were reached it was supposed to be a rolling increase of the 30 year olds but then was frozen at 1975 and earlier for no smog. So far 1976 and later continue to have the 2 year requirements.
 
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