Yup, our (www.veva.ca) 1912 Detroit Electric is pretty much original too. It's had a few cracks in the aluminium fenders, a new (as original) roof, new replacement wheel spoke (find a wagon wheel maker these days!) and some upholstery work done but otherwise it's still in good shape. The batteries were replaced in (I think) 1990 (~78 years old) when the original boxes began to leak.
You can see it here: http://www.veva.bc.ca/images/Detroit-20060827.jpg at the BC Hydro Powerhouse Museum (also 1912 vintage) where we keep it when it's not at shows promoting electric vehicles. Lawrence On 2013-06-06, at 6:42 AM, Electric Blue auto convertions wrote: > I saw a Rauch & lang electric on the road it was from 1914 ....heres the > kicker ..it was all original, un-touched except the batteries 100 years and > still going strong. This would NEVER be done these days in a through away > world of very cheap crap built these days ... and I offered to buy it , > naturally he said "NO" > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130606/155c2ff2/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)
