Originally Posted by poorboy
Fed vehicle laws always apply to the laws that were on the books when the vehicle was new, those laws do not required old vehicles to be brought up to modern standards.


For now anyway. Feds can always amend the law to apply retroactively, for the children/environment/collective safety or whatever they think they can use to do it. To be honest, those of us into old cars are a small number and the majority of people probably already think those stinky old cars should be off the road anyway.