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Originally Posted by olds45512
Outlawed? I know companies can't make and sell them anymore but that doesn't mean you can't own one.
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Yes OUTLAWED.. read below
Of course you can own them. Manufacturers were actually forbid, outlawed from making them.. Many towns outlawed them meaning if you got caught riding it they would impound it. The whole thing was absurd and really IMO was done to make way for the quads and the kits that were sold to convert 3 wheelers to 4. They were deemed to dangerous for use and 4 wheelers were the "safe" replacement. I never flipped any of mine. I think the real issue was some rich folks ran out and bought their 10 and 12 YO kids the biggest baddest machines available and thought they were toys. Then they got upset when their kid got hurt or worse and blamed it on the machine that the kid never learned to ride.
Outlawing A Three-Wheeler
Monday, Jan. 11, 1988
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On countless occasions the Government has ordered defective autos and trucks recalled. But last week the Justice Department, backed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, went a long step beyond that. In an unprecedented action, it outlawed future sales of an entire mode of transportation: three-wheel all- terrain vehicles.
The rugged gasoline-powered machines, which also come in four-wheel models, look something like a cross between a motorcycle and a dune buggy. Costing an average of $2,000, they can cruise up to 50 m.p.h. and negotiate some of the toughest terrain around, from sand dunes and rock-strewn hills to marshy lowlands. They...
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