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TMCP #501: SEMA’s Colby Martin – What is the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act All About?

The MuscleCar Place

Robert Kibbe

Automotive, Leisure, Business, Careers

4.8701 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week I spoke to Colby Martin of the SEMA Action Network to get all of the nitty gritty details on the Low Volume Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Act. The news of the act finally being able to move forward after 7 long years of it becoming law has been huge! Specifically, it now means that a licensed replica vehicle manufacturer can build up to 325 replica "classic" cars per year! Unlike current replica and "kit" cars, the customer can purchase it fully completed (running/driving) and register it in their own state accordingly. It'll look and feel just like the original, but there is one catch; it has to be emissions compliant with "modern standards!" Clear as mud, right? Colby was here to sort out the minutia of it all. 

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0:00.0

The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 501.

0:04.8

This week, our guest is Colby Martin from Seema.

0:07.1

Now, we have been talking for weeks about Seema's news of the Low-Vulium Vehicle Manufacturing Act.

0:13.4

That law happened actually in 2015.

0:15.3

Now it's 22, and it's finally enacted.

0:17.9

And a reality, thanks to Seema suing the feds to take action on implementing

0:21.9

it. And they did, with a 100-plus page ruling, you can read it. Colby's going to answer all your

0:27.3

questions about it, and stuff like, do you need to be licensed with the manufacturer of the car you're

0:32.2

producing? How many vehicles a year can you really produce? What does the only caveat to the rule mean about producing

0:39.2

a car with modern emissions compliance? And how do you do that exactly? It's all here. What this law does

0:44.6

is allow you to not only, if you want to build that from a kit, you can, but if you want to walk into a

0:49.8

showroom and drive it off the lot, you can do that too.

1:02.3

This is the Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot.

1:08.7

This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.

1:14.9

If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.

1:18.4

Now here's your host, Rob Kibby.

1:22.7

Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.

1:28.6

So here we are, everybody, the new next era of the Muscle Car Place, episode 50. I hope you're like the new intro and the bumpers. They're cool. I like him a lot. Today's show with Colby Martin should be a

1:34.0

fun one to kick off this new gen of shows. And by new gen, I mean we have new bumpers. Finally,

1:41.4

we're going to get some insight on the new low-volume vehicle manufacturing act.

1:46.8

Listen closely when we get to the part towards the end of the interview about what it takes to produce a vehicle with a legally emissions-compliant engine package.

1:55.5

It is defined what you're supposed to do, but how you actually do it is, to me at least, not yet quite clear. Now, that's a problem.

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