How many school age boys dreamed of owning an Austin Healey 3000?
(I was one of them). It started with a bang, and ended with a whimper for all those great and powerful beasts. The year was 1968, the first year for the introduction of United States emission and safety controls; and boy, was the British auto industry caught flat-footed! America was their largest market. It would take England more than (in my opinion) ten years to meet the new regulations with fresh engineering and design. But, in the short term, they improvised (fancy word for made do). The beautiful Jaguar XKE lost its glassed in headlamps and triple carburetors, as did Aston Martin. Triumph and MG quickly added enough devices to clean up their tail pipe emissions, but wound up with anemic cars, sapped of power. The poor Mini, realizing its hopeless fate, disappeared completely (in America, that is).
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