Jim McKenzie
1972 850 Spider
Today the teacher of the Engineering shop at the local technical high school came by my house. I chatted with him briefly, and it appears the school would like a small sports car to work on...to make it a fully electric car. They'd like to use my 1972 Fiat 850 Spider. They would remove the engine etc of course and I suspect make other significant changes, but we spoke for only a few minutes as it snowed yesterday and I was in my pajamas.
My car runs, but still needs a lot of work to really make it road worthy...and to make things worse my mechanic I've been using just retired. I live in a fairly rural area so fining a replacement may be quite hard. They'd be no charge to me, and I'd get the car back of course. The school also has an auto body shop, AND an auto repair shop so I'd have three or perhaps even six teachers guiding this. But again, I have no idea as to their relative skills.
What's your feedback here...would making an 850 Spider electric ruin it? Or perhaps save it?
My car runs, but still needs a lot of work to really make it road worthy...and to make things worse my mechanic I've been using just retired. I live in a fairly rural area so fining a replacement may be quite hard. They'd be no charge to me, and I'd get the car back of course. The school also has an auto body shop, AND an auto repair shop so I'd have three or perhaps even six teachers guiding this. But again, I have no idea as to their relative skills.
What's your feedback here...would making an 850 Spider electric ruin it? Or perhaps save it?