Apparently in spite of heavy advertising GM was only able to lease about 800 EV1 cars total during the entire production run. This is hardly enough to support an after market There are probably more 55 Chevy's on the road today than EV1s in existence, ever.
Paul Stenquist wrote: > You can buy every part for a Model T from aftermarket suppliers. > That's true of many old cars. I can buy all the parts for my 55 Chevy > as well. The only things I'd have to look for used would be head > castings or blocks. Every other part is available new or restored. I > purchased a restored (rather than rebuilt) carburetor for it. All the > throttle plate bores were plugged and rebored. The body was replated > with the original bronzing. All of the internal parts are new. It > runs beautifully. > Paul > On Nov 24, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > > >> Charles Robinson wrote: >> >>> On Nov 24, 2006, at 13:49, Kenneth Waller wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Lack of support also. >>>> >>>> >>> There are a lot of discontinued/unsupported cars out on the road - >>> Model T's, even! >>> >>> I don't recall Ford going out and pulling all of them off of the >>> road. >>> >>> -Charles >>> >>> >> There's a big difference between maintaining a car which was >> actually sold and was supported for a time, with a number of >> aftermarket parts options and/or other cars to scrap for parts and >> a vehicle which the maker considered it uneconomical to sell & >> support even when brand new. >> >> -Adam >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
