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Inside the costly trend charging up Australia's classic car scene (www.sbs.com.au)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

As a long time car nut, this is like blasphemy. You basically destroy everything about the car that made it what it was by doing this. It’d be like putting a 4 cylinder engine in an RX-7 - sure it looks the same, but it’s not an RX-7 at that point.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    It'd depend on whether you liked it for its engine or other aesthetics. I loved the look of late 90's Celicas. Couldn't care less about the engine in them, I just thought they looked cool. In some other life where I had the time and resources for such a project, I could see myself giving them such an upgrade.

    I think I read that Arnie put an electric motor into one of his Hummers.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It’s not just the engine, it’s literally every single driving characteristic too.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    British car owners with Lucas electrics would welcome the increase in reliability haha

    I owned a Morris Major. Even with its 'big' 1620cc engine, you can be very sure that if I had the opportunity to make it electric at the time with what's available now, I would have.

    Probably would have ended up in a straight line into the nearest tree though, those things basically didn't have any handling or brakes.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, but things are fluid, new things can get born too. I wouldn't swap out the shitty Yamaha engine from that Celica, but I think I would overall prefer to drive an electric VW Bus.

    The classic cars one loves to drive also get heavier with batteries so even with a better suspension (which is again different) it's significantly different to drive.

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