David,
What sad news. I noticed that Roland hadn't posted anything recently but
thought he was probably busy with one of his projects. I have quite a
few of his old messages, including one from 2007 in which he carefully
explained how to spray some stuff on one of my chargers to reduce the
noise it was making. Lee then added info to Roland's. Two of the list
members whose knowledge I have valued for many years. Roland also posted
information I found very interesting, and saved, about his energy
efficient house. We have lost one of our EVDL assets.
Gail
On 8/20/2018 3:29 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote:
If youi've been on the EVDL for a while, you probably remember reading posts
by Roland Wiench. He gave us a lot of them -- over 4,100. His first post,
about LRR tires, seems to have been in November of 2003. He posted several
times in late 2016 and early 2017, then one last time in May of 2017.
You can read many of his posts in the archive. He's also quoted in an EVDL
library article, http://www.evdl.org/pages/battpost.html
I realized recently that I hadn't read anything from him in quite a while,
so I did some investigation. I'm sad to report that Roland passed away on
the 16th of March this year. The obituary is quoted below.
Roland got his El Camino conversion from Robert Aronson's Electric Fuel
Propulsion in Michigan. Aronson is probably best remembered for his Renault-
based Mars I and Mars II conversions (Dauphines and R10s), every nook and
cranny jammed with lead batteries, but he converted several large American
cars too.
Roland never stopped improving and refining that El Camino, which at one
time weighed over 3.5 tons. Recently, he'd fitted it with Leaf modules,
which must have significantly reduced the weight.
You can see the car before the Leaf module conversion here:
http://evalbum.com/470
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https://www.croxfordfuneralhome.com/notices/Roland-Wiench
Roland Eugene Wiench
September 4, 1936 ~ March 16, 2018 (age 81)
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