if I can find someone to make payments on it say $200 a month I'd be happy
> > I found someone to drive the Mazda truck... on the third day, she > > told me she couldn't do it any more without air conditioning... funny how things work out for the best I have someone new driving it today and he is showiing it off to new people so its working out. > That is fixable. Add air conditioning. Can you rig a v-belt drive to the > traction motor to run a regular auto A/C compressor? this was done . that was a + point when I got the truck it had a working AC . It was the last thing to get going . I had it working and was showing it off in drive way (didn't have a fan on radior) when a hose laying on the ac pipe got so hot it blew :-( some days I brake more that i fix .I'd like to just take it to the ac man and let him do it right. (pics will be up soon) > > neighbor has this Triumph Spitfire for sale... I tell him about my > > Porsche 924 and he says he has one right behind the tree... I can > > have them both for $500... > > Here's an idea we discussed on the EVware list. > > Think of the number of people who want a car, but can't afford one. They > could get a dead car for virtually nothing (usually due to a bad > engine), but don't know how to fix it, don't have the tools, and repair > parts are very expensive. > > Perhaps you've heard of Habitat for Humanity? It's become the world's > largest low-cost home builder. Suppose you need a home, but can't afford > one. You join your local HFH chapter, and they put your name on a > waiting list. You help build houses for whoever is on the top of the > list. The more work you do, the higher your name goes on the list. When > the house is finished, the top person on the list gets it FREE OF > CHARGE! > > No loans, no mortgage; it's yours, free and clear! You've learned new > skills; you know how to fix and maintain it, because you helped build > it. You've stuck to it long enough to show that you care. > > I think something like this could work for EVs. Perhaps you'd charge for > an EV class to demonstrate how to convert an EV. In the class, you > convert a car, using the money paid by each student. At the end of the > class, the best student gets to keep the car. > > If you set it up as a non-profit corporation, you can collect charitable > donations (cash or materials) that donors get to write off on their > taxes. You can pay yourself a salary as the teacher, or rent for the > tools or workspace if it's in your garage. > > > He works for Florida Power and Light and they have a few EVs... > > Don't they find the new technology interesting? Don't they feel they > > are good for the environment? He say they don't care about none of > > that; they "drive the piss out of them" and just want their pay check. > > This is the usual outcome when people are forced to drive EVs. They will > *make* them fail so they can get their gas car back. In several cases, > employees actually sabatoge the EVs or deliberately wreck them. I like your Ideas here Lee .here's a few of mine a bed a breakfest deal where somone takes a Florida vacation and brings the "to be converted car " on trail/whatever .They stay at my house and we install the motor/batterie boxes while there wife and kids play at the beach(I think a lot of people would be doing conversion if they could get this part done ) then they take there car bark home and finnish it there on there own time . I could have motors hear ready to go. We may be able to bang it out in as little as 2 days (thats just motor and battery boxes not whole car) . Have the goverment (army/navy/what ever) give away adptors plates to people who want to do converstion . Give those gies in the shop somthing to do ( to bad it would probable cost $10,000 a plate) all gas stations have 2 tanks ,prime and reg . Let one, say the prim be just gas made from U.S. oil and let the price be what ever it takes to get them to pump it out of the ground . the reg would be OPEC and they already set the price . Now people like me with a gas monkey (lawn mower) can pay the higher price and get gas made from U.S. oil . Those SUV don't care people could still pump there OPEC gas . Could do some neat ads . How about ad a $1 tax that goes to conversions (now i'm dreaming) I have been telling people about the "hang a cord from your gas tank door " program and heres what I hear 70% realy like the idea and will do it 10% don't see what gas has to do with 9/11 10% think we should go over and bomb them and take the gas (0 0) 10% think I'm nuts and don't want to if it dose catch on I wonder how long befor some one plugs in on of these fake cords and blows up there car Steve Clunn > Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still can ring > 814 8th Ave. N. Forget your perfect offering > Sartell, MN 56377 USA There is a crack in everything > leeahart_at_earthlink.net That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen > >
