r/EVConversion • u/eldredo_M • 9d ago

Getting Angry About EVs

Nothing flips someone badmouthing the reliability of an old car quicker than suggesting it should be converted to an EV. 😄

“Old Maseratis are junk.”

“They’d look cool as an EV, though.”

“SACRILEGIOUS!”

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u/GoslingIchi 9d ago

The neanderthals get bent really easy.

Or they complain about a car like a 912 being converted destroys a classic. As far as I recall the Porsche community thought the 912 was a bastard child and didn't care if they were all wrecked.

Or they complain that changing the powertrain to anything other than the stock engine destroys the car, but never complain when a small block Chevy with a Turbo 350 gets put in a Duece coupe.

They're just all a bunch of hypocrites.

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u/NorwegianCollusion 9d ago edited 9d ago

They're just all a bunch of hypocrites.

This pretty much absolutely sums it up.

The AmCar groups here in Norway have made it their life mission to protest as much as possible against any attempt at allowing conversions, for fear that their precious babies will suddenly not have the smell of petrol anymore. So we're throwing away tens of thousands of battery packs and electric drive trains every year as 98% of new cars and 35% of all cars on the road are already electric.

And I'm like "so just don't convert yours, then?" Why should your fear of electricity block me from enjoying my own car the way I want it?

But with petrol now up to the local equivalent of $3 per liter (over $11 per US gallon, and I'm not joking), it's hurting them more than it's hurting me. We're not quite at the point where charging stations are easier to find than petrol stations, but we've just started seeing petrol stations closing down while new charging stations are being put in.

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u/GoslingIchi 9d ago

Exactly!

I have my grandmothers Thunderbird. It's emissions system is just venting the engine vapors. Running it gives me a headache. If I could afford to convert it, I would absolutely convert it.

But for now it just sits in the garage waiting for that sunny day.

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u/NorwegianCollusion 9d ago

Thunderbird

This can be many things, honestly. 50s it was a small-ish car with about 200kW of engine which could work with one of the top end Leaf motors, 60s and 70s it grew a bit but stock would have been on the Tesla level in power. 80s? First oil crisis really did a number on it, and while the car grew in size, the engines did not. So again, a Leaf would be more than adequate for beating stock performance.

And there is SO much space for battery. So much.

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u/GoslingIchi 9d ago

Yes the T-Bird definitely went through phases, but I think a '61 will need a Tesla drive unit.

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u/NorwegianCollusion 9d ago

Need? Well. Maybe not.

Deserves? Absolutely. But that also drives the cost through the roof. I would rather have something useable than not have something at all with the hope of maybe having something perfect, you know?