This is why I like my 77 2.5 ton El Camino driving in Montana through a foot or more of snow with no problem. People from Florida move next door that had a baby buggy VW bug that could not back out of there drive way! We do not plow snow until it gets over a foot.
They could not make it up the steep hill which I drive every day to the Hill Top Café which is on a hill and sometimes through a foot or more of snow. So they bought a 4 wheel drive pickup where you need a latter to get in. One day I was park and a person came into the Café said he back up into the EV. His car is a bull nose with plastic bumpers that was all crack up when it hit my bumper which is over 1/8 inch thick steel with another 1/8 inch inner liner with 3/16 inch steel reinforcing and two 1/4 inch thick 6 inch I beam mounts to the a 6 by 8 inch 3/16 inch frame. There was no damage to my bumpers at all. I thought bumpers are made to be bump not break up with a little tap. Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Electric Blue auto convertions" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:03 AM Subject: [EVDL] doner car > My question is why would you want a NEV ?? The yelling and screaming is > all about range ! now you dont want long range? OK, build a full size EV > and dont go so far, simple. > My 68 Ford F250 has a 18 Gal gas tank, and I know I can only go 100 miles > on it, the gas mileage is so bad , about 4, to 5 MPG at best, 428 SCJ, > 4:56 rear end , My El Camino would get over 100 mile range, all electric, > and NO gas stations . If I only wanted to go 14 miles a day, and I did > every day till I sold it, I did @ 70 MPH . > > I have seen how bad the Miles and zaps were built, very bad, totally > unsafe in any crash except a Radio Flyer , and a small one at that. Now we > have a bunch of three wheelers coming out, go to "top gear/robin" watch > that, then decide if you want a three wheeler , I almost pissed my pants > laffing at that one LOLOLOL > > The guy with the Studdy made a good point, the older cars were HOLLOW, not > heavy, fat fenders made them look heavy. lots of steel to haul around but > they had class. Not like the Potato > looking cars that come out, in fact all the new cars look like a 88 Ford > Taurus , all of them , the only difference is the BS gagets that they > stuff in them...stuff you have to have LOLOL . > > I happen to like big cars, always have, always will, I cant buy a 76 El > Dorado, convertible new any more, but theres a lot for sale, would I > convert it to Electric?? hell no. But you can convert ANY older car easier > then a new one by far . Trunks had enough room to hold a party in ...just > my 2 cents > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130124/ac72c855/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
