Sorry I haven’t had much time to reply been finishing up a large job at work.Larry It’s not necessary to shift through every gear actually the electric motor has so much more torque that you can start in fourth gear, it’s slow. I drive mainly starting in third then shifting to fourth, but once in a while I just want to shift through the gears.…[Read more]

 I thought I would give everybody a update on the electric conversion. Last spring I moved the four lower batteries along side the electric motor. I installed them in the rear luggage compartment. The transfer of weight off the back of the car towards the front improved the handling considerably, the front end lowered slightly and the rear end…[Read more]

 I actually never broke it down,but all of the fabrication for the electrical  we did ourselves. including CNC machined battery boxes. I would guess about $6500.00 for the conversion we bought batteries at wholesale from a friend. Actually EV,s technology isn’t rocket science. It’s  golf cart technology with a few more volts. It’s easier to un…[Read more]

The life expectancy of the batteries are about four to five years same as a golf cart. I’ve got $13,800 in it, with the cost of the car.  I paid $1800.00 with the engine leaking a small amount of oil. It needed restoration we took it down to the chassis, rebuilt the transaxle, new brakes, wheel cylinders, master cylinder,lines, removed clutch,…[Read more]

  I converted a Classic Coach over to electric last year It’s running a 72 volt drive system with a 40 hp D&D EV motor and a Alltrax controller It has 12 6volt EV batteries and one lighting system 12volt. We did a complete frame off and added battery boxes to the area below on each side of the motor and seven batteries in the front. The…[Read more]