Step One - The Donor Car
Welcome to my web site!
During the next few months I'll be converting an old gas powered car to run on clean, cheap electricity.
It's a serious learning curve for me but I'm up for the challenge - and hey, if I can do it then believe me, anyone can do it!
After years of wanting to do this I thought, "hey, why not start now?" and started looking around for a cheap donor car. Ideally something that had a damaged engine but a good body and gearbox. I was looking for an 80's Mitsubishi (I've had a few) and found this one for sale locally within a few weeks of searching.
You are looking at the first picture taken of the 1987 Mitsubishi Tredia, purchased for $180 in March 2007. The engine had blown (I was told) so after paying the previous owner and filling out a change-of-ownership form, we towed it home to begin the slow but interesting process of converting this old clunker to run on electricity.
But first we had to get the darn thing up the driveway you can see in the picture. I thought that if we gave it everything we had, we'd be able to push it up the drive and into the garage. Alas, it's a bit steeper than it looks...
To see the fun and chaos of towing the car and getting it home please click on the video above!
Alternatively, have a look at some of the photos taken during the day
