![]() “I got really tired of shelf boots that would wear out 60 days after you bought them,” he says. At Hole in the Wall Boots and Saddles, he’s putting his own brand on Pawnee Bill’s town.Ĭowboying for a living made Brown appreciate good boots. Over in Pawnee, Jerry Brown was raised cowboy. I just hadn’t known before that I was a bootmaker.” “In fact, it wasn’t like finding what I wanted to be, it was more like discovering what I was. “By the time I left, I knew I wanted to be a bootmaker,” she says. Not bad for a former seamstress who “wasn’t raised cowboy” and had “never worn boots” until she answered a newspaper ad and started stitching tops for legendary bootmaker Jay Griffith. She won the Best Artist Award for wearable art at last year’s Southwestern Design Conference. Need proof that boots are art? Look no farther than Lisa Sorrell’s Sorrell Custom Boots in historic Guthrie. These boots are made for driving, so I’m taking the Bootmaker Trail. Stetson made his hats back East, but custom boots are Western, have been since cowtown bootmakers put their souls into their soles. A $50 bottle of Scotch is one thing, but a $4,000 pair of boots is not out of the realm of possibilities. (Bloomberg) - India’s plan to remove millions of older polluting cars from its roads in an effort to clear some of the world’s most toxic air looks set to face several challenges with a new survey showing the majority of vehicle owners aren’t interested in trading in their automobile based on age.Tourists go on whiskey tours in Scotland, bootmaker Lee Miller tells me, so why not take a custom bootmaker tour in America?Ĭould get a little pricey, I think. Some 57% of 10,543 vehicle owners surveyed by LocalCircles say whether a car should be removed from service or not should depend on miles on the odometer rather than age. The government last year mandated that personal vehicles more than 20 years old and commercial vehicles more than 15 years old will need to undergo fitness tests in order to remain on the road. In addition, just over half of consumers surveyed said they’re planning to reduce the number of cars they own because they believe India’s cash-for-clunkers policy will make it more expensive to keep an old vehicle. Authorities have made auto fitness tests more expensive since April, with owners of cars that are older than 15 years now having to spend eight times more to renew their registration. ![]() The public’s lack of interest in getting rid of polluting vehicles is a potential setback for India’s ambitions to turn net carbon zero by 2070. Recycling old cars is crucial for India to cut emissions considering the take up of electric vehicles is lagging due to sparse charging networks and the high price of battery-powered transport. The nation’s Centre for Science and Environment forecasts that by 2025, India will have as many as 20 million old vehicles nearing the end of their lives, causing huge environmental damage. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration has said it expects the program to attract fresh investment of more than 100 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) and curb the nation’s dependency on other countries for metals. Modi has said scrapping end-of-life vehicles in India is currently not productive because precious metals aren’t recycled and the energy recovery is close to nothing.Īutomakers however appear to be siding with the public. “Age is not a good criteria for scrapping a vehicle,” Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. A vehicle gets scrapped when the user finds it isn’t economical to repair it to get a fitness certificate.” “The logic has to be the car’s ability to ply roads safely so it doesn’t put other road users in danger. ![]()
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