Vintage Voltage

[zagatoes30]

So how did he get it back to NI ? Absolute gash.

Exactly what I said to Mrs Z

Six months and 30k ouch! I didn't really understand the gearbox and clutch idea. Using the gearbox to drive the shaft yes but changing gear!

I guess overtime the costs will come down but 6 months why?

 

[Lozzer]

If you think you are contributing to the big clean up, be my guest, go ahead and buy one, a Jag I pace or whatever you like, but like my Grandma used to say...you can't educate pork...

 

[highlander]

Kudos for finding a way to keep beautiful classics running and more importantly, useable. Always fancied a 60s Alfa soft top but no change out of 20k for a reasonably good one so add the 30k conversion and 50k total? until pricing comes down this is a financially unrealistic option unfortunately. 50k better spent on something else.

 

[rossyl]

I turned off when they said £25k and he'd already removed the engine.

That's so expensive.

Worth watching Top Gear S.27 E.2, to see the effects of putting a battery in a Triumph Spitfire

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00068rr[/URL]"]www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00068rr[/URL]

 

[Oneball]

Dont get it most of the fun of old cars is the driving experience. The electric motor is just for instagram wannabes to pose next to something that looks cool.

 

[safrane]

Milk float with a taffeta cover.

 

[zagatoes30]

Will have to watch more of there series as there was a Fulvia and a BMW 2002 in the workshop

 

[Oneball]

Will have to watch more of there series as there was a Fulvia and a BMW 2002 in the workshop

Getting rid of those engines would be a crime.

 

[zagatoes30]

Getting rid of those engines would be a crime.

I agree but I will watch to see what they do, the alternative would be to talk to the wife

 

[StuartW]

I've started watching it and can see it would be interesting to some who buy into the EV concept but it's not for me. £25k for a Karmann Ghia conversion is so expensive when you think how nice an original, restored car you would get spending that much on it.
I can see the desire to make a classic more driveable for modern times but you wouldn't paint an iphone into the hand of the Mona Lisa to bring her up to date or have Safestyle round to put some UPVC windows into Buckingham Palace. If you really must make a classic more user friendly, by all means add some power steering if you need to although most are so light, they don't need it. Add fuel injection, electronic ignition, a more powerful screen demister, upgrade your brake lines, use modern tyres and ditch the old crossplys but please leave the engine alone!!

Sincerely, the Luddite from Lincolnshire

 

[conaero]

First one was ok but 7 more episodes of much the same, Ill watch it but expectations are low.

 

[2b1ask1]

I get the feeling it isn’t going to make series two...

 

[DaveT]

Range anxiety? Will run out of power before reaching Series 2?

 

[Vampyrebat]

Just another attempt to exploit the car programme range IMO................I love Karmann Ghias, but they are supposed to sound like Beetles!

 

[StuartW]

Ill watch it but expectations are low.

Me too, I have to have something on TV to complain about after all

 

[outrun]

Given the safety standards of a classic (i.e. none), I'm not sure i'd want to be driving one with aftermarket battery tech in it. I can't wait for someone to come up with a hydrogen fuel cell that they made in their shed either.

Ariel Atom Bomb anyone?

 

[2b1ask1]

Just watched the recording and pretty much as expected. I really don't think they needed to send out to China for the adapter plate having set the gearbox up on a big old mill that to measure it that could have made it old school without breaking a sweat! That was disappointing but the overall finished article was as expected really. Not a revelation but didn't quite send me to sleep either.

 

[lifes2short]

the alternative would be to talk to the wife

you defo dont wanna be doing that, my wife always says we dont talk enough, works for me

 

[Gazcw]

Exactly what I said to Mrs Z



I guess overtime the costs will come down but 6 months why?

There was a clip of the 356 they are doing in the workshop. I bet they were working on all of them at the same time.

 

[zagatoes30]

There was a clip of the 356 they are doing in the workshop. I bet they were working on all of them at the same time.

Probably, Goblinworks did a 500 recently and the electric bits came from this place as I saw the blue Fulvia when they were collecting the parts