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- Дата: 5-02-2023, 09:49
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Автор: John B. Hege
Издательство: McFarland
Год: 2022
Страниц: 192
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 12.5 MB
In the 1970s, as car enthusiasts in the U.S. grew bored with models manufactured under tightening pollution and safety regulations, some innovative dealers exploited a legal loophole--designed to allow U.S. soldiers and diplomats to return from abroad with their vehicles--to import exotic cars never intended for sale in America. During the 1980s, a rise in the value of the dollar made car shopping in Europe a bargain hunter's dream. A network of unauthorized "gray market" importers and conversion shops emerged, bypassing factory channels and retrofitting cars to meet U.S. regulations and emission standards--at least in theory. By the mid–1970s some foreign automakers had already thrown up their hands and abandoned the American market rather than bear the burdens imposed on car makers by an increasingly socially aware government. Even though I was only 16, I was outraged at the idea that masterpieces like the Maserati Bora or the then-concept Lamborghini Countach were not going to be available for sale in America.