The Specialty Equipment Market Association wanted to create a pathway for smaller manufacturers to join the replica vehicle industry and sell and build replica vehicles to strict standards in the U.S. They wrote a new law for a select group of manufacturers that produce fewer than 5,000 vehicles. They could build and sell up to 325 replica vehicles per year and be exempt from regulations like NHTSA’s safety standards. So in March 2022, NHTSA published the final rule, but none of the manufacturers that met the criteria were building and selling vehicles that met the act’s provisions. With no manufacturers in need of the law’s provisions, what on earth was the Specialty Equipment Market Association spending its time on?