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Junkyard Find: 1980 Fiat X1/9

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Here's one of those cars, found in a car graveyard near Denver recently. California-market X1/9s for 1980 got Bosch L-Jetronic fuel injection, but the 49-state cars got the Weber 34 carburetor you see here. That beat the price tag on the $7,365 Triumph Spitfire , then in its final model year here. foot-pounds.

Colorado 105
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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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The door tag tells us that this car was assembled in St. The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. The DSO code of 51 shows that it was sold out of the Denver sales office. If it had been in California and thus near a major port, such a happy ending for it might have happened.

Mercury 111
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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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The cities/metro areas studied were: Los Angeles County; Greater Toronto; Geneva Canton; Greater Prague; Cape Town; Denver City and County; New York City; Greater London; Barcelona; and Bangkok. Timothy Hillman, University of Colorado. Diane Pataki, University of California, Irvine. Anu Ramaswami, University of Colorado.

Emissions 199
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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. City of Santa Clarita, California: $4,620,000. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. North County Transit District, California: $2,000,000. Denver Regional Transportation District, Colorado: $770,000.

Emissions 256
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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hourcar by Hymotion, August 2006 (Twin Cities, MN), contact info@hourcar.org Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, August 2006 (Los Angeles County) Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, August 2006, then converted by Hymotion, November 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact jeinnes@hydro.mb.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

Prius 48