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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
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So was Moody's car squashed by government politicos in tandem with OPEC lobbyists?
In a somewhat similar storyline of a great idea for a mass produced econo car that never took off, Victor Wouk was credited by some as pitching the idea of the first modern hybrid car which I think was a modded '72 Buick Skylark 4 door. His plans met a similar fate according to what I've read. Some guy from the EPA
Apparently had it in for Wouk.
Smokey Yunick's hot vapor high mpg Pontiac Fiero and I'm sure there are more out there. I don't know if Smokey had plans to sell to the public ever.
Sorry I can't post links for these gentlemen and their ideas from my phone.
Someone with more money and brains than I will ever have should do a show/movie whatever you want to call it about these men and their ideas and what the real reasons were that they never happened.