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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoMy dream car is a Nash Metropolitan converted to an EV.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoThat would be fucking dope. I’d love for retrofuturist cars like this to appear
minus-squarenexas_XIII@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI wish we got the Honda E. Would buy that up in a heartbeat.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoBro if you could get a used leaf gen one (they run around 4k), you could take that thing to a drag strip and absolutely turn some heads. I have a friend who wants to take my gen one leaf and do a conversion. He just went to an EV mechanics course on it.
minus-squareJesus_666@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSame with a 1959 Panhard PL 17. Some of those little old cars are just beautiful.
minus-squareThrowaway@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down8·1 year agoYou’d chop up a nash, and put an ev motor in it? I do not have kind words for you.
minus-squareblivet@artemis.camplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhen I was in high school back in the late 70s you’d still see a few of those around. My friend had one, but not for long. Someone had put in a more powerful motor and if she wasn’t careful accelerating she would snap the drive shaft.
My dream car is a Nash Metropolitan converted to an EV.
That would be fucking dope. I’d love for retrofuturist cars like this to appear
That’s a pretty sweet ride.
I wish we got the Honda E. Would buy that up in a heartbeat.
Bro if you could get a used leaf gen one (they run around 4k), you could take that thing to a drag strip and absolutely turn some heads.
I have a friend who wants to take my gen one leaf and do a conversion. He just went to an EV mechanics course on it.
Same with a 1959 Panhard PL 17. Some of those little old cars are just beautiful.
You’d chop up a nash, and put an ev motor in it? I do not have kind words for you.
When I was in high school back in the late 70s you’d still see a few of those around. My friend had one, but not for long. Someone had put in a more powerful motor and if she wasn’t careful accelerating she would snap the drive shaft.