<VV> Converting a Corvair to electric viable?

[Bryan Blackwell]

That's what I meant by "defining your requirements."  I would think  
that anyone who drives a Corvair would be willing to consider that  
there might be more than one set of requirements, or that an interest  
in trying something just for the sake of doing so is a good thing.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the  
strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done  
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,  
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives  
valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there  
is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great  
enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy  
cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high  
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails  
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those  
cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910


It's funny, this is quite reminiscent of discussions I had in the  
early '90s about this wacky idea of using e-mail to exchange ideas  
about Corvairs.

--Bryan

On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Bob Gilbert wrote:

> My own definition (your mileage will almost certainly vary) of a  
> viable
> vehicle is one that deals with my regular retirement commute (in a few
> months) - living on an island with a 20 km round trip to anywhere  
> and a 60
> km/hour posted speed limit. That might be a scooter, an econobox or
> whatever, even (gasp) an electric Corvair!) For trips beyond that I  
> use my
> truck or Corvair.