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more about #alternativefuel more comments → Elhigh: I have a book on electric cars that was written smack in the middle of the Malaise Era, and it mentions a guy in Virginia who kept meticulous records ... more » SanbornApis: noooooooo, I had one of these and got up to 50mph going down a hill. The drive train, suspension and brakes are golf cart - literally! 35mph is real... more » TurboBrick [LIGIER]: Everyone knows that the hood scoop gives you +3hp right away, so on it's own this thing has 0.5hp then, right? more » alexander_the_car_salamander: Anybody else thinking about a Hayabusa engine swap or is it just me? more » Mad_Science: Cool plate, but I think this one beats it. more » Mad_Science: Love that NACA duct on the hood. Sure, this'll get you lots of attention from the girls, but unless it's the gymnastics team, you're unlikely to capi... more » Picarso: We had one of these when I was in High-school. It had fallen off a trailer it was being transported on and the top cracked so the roof was cut off and... more » ssrock64: Even these were subject to some legislation. They gained gigantic bumpers and Sebring-Vanguard failed. Another company took over, added the aforementi... more » Novaload: Great find. I've always loved these because the droopy face is the essence of someone thinking "Meh" = Hey, I am what I am, pretty much a 35 mph enclo... more » skaycog: Another learning experience for me. This is a Citicar drag race at the 2009 International Citicar Gathering in Baltimore, Md. Go get em! more » Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp: I had heard of these before, but I've never seen this much detail of one. Fun fact: this is the most-produced electric car sold in the US. more » evilvocho: Sebring seems to be a doomed name, at least when applied to cars, I say... more » fuchikoma: lol... the power adapter for my electric razor has a circle-slash tag on the cord that warns against cutting the cable with scissors while holding it ... more » MushyHeirloom: They'll have to put "UNLEADED ELECTRONS ONLY" there next. more » SeanKHotay: One thing you learn, working with and designing stuff for people, is that if someone can do something, they will. SAAB had an "add oil" reminder tag ... more » -
#downonthestreet
1976 Sebring-Vanguard Citicar
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. 500+ vehicles into this series, we've finally got an electric car! More » -
#jalopsa
REMINDER: Do Not Put Gasoline In Your Electric Car!
MINI's added a special sticker to the charger ports on their MINI E reminding drivers not to put fuel in it. Perfect time for a JaloPSA to remind everyone that electric cars and gasoline do not mix.
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#ifeelgassy
Pour Some Sugar In Your Gas Tank, Get Rocked
Sugar in your gas tank doesn't have to be that bad, thanks to inventor Paul Patone, although you still have to mix your Mtn Dew with 20% gasoline or it'll run X-tremely rough. [Oh Gizmo] -
#newcars
Production All-Electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV Gets Eye-Popping $47K Price
The long-brewing, all-electric Mitsubishi i-MiEV has finally gotten the production green-light and a sale price. It's a rather bracing $47,000 for the Japanese market. Spendy, but no gasoline necessary is a pretty killer feature, right? More » -
#artcar
Fun With Fireballs, Handmade Hooch, And Art Cars In West Oakland Tonight!
Want to check out the Golden Mean, a fire-belching Volkswagen Beetle-based giant snail that seats six and packs an 800-watt sound system inside its shell? With snake charming to boot? Head to Oakland tonight! More » -
#projectcarhell
Project Car Hell, Non Compos Mentis Edition: Electric Colt or Citroën CX Pallas?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Today we've got a couple of cars with just one thing in common: insanity! More » -
#alternativefuel
Escape From Berkeley, By Any Non-Petroleum Means Necessary!
This morning, I headed over to Shipyard Labs in the Berkeley flatlands (not very coincidentally, located just a few blocks from the 24 Hours Of LeMons HQ in Emeryville) to witness preparations for the start of the Escape From Berkeley race to Las Vegas. The rules are pretty simple: vehicles can't run on any form of petroleum fuel, they can only bring 10KWH equivalent of fuel to start with, and the teams must obtain all further fuel for free along the race route. Otherwise, anything goes- and they've managed to get permits to stage this madness on public roads! Make the jump to see some of the machines that will be competing for the $5,000 first prize. More » -
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#projectcarhell
Project Car Hell, Pressure Drop Edition: Stanley Steamer or Gardner-Serpollet?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we saw a cat-piss-enhanced, meth-head-damaged, Camaro-suspended '53 Chevy take a beating in the Choose Your Eternity poll at the hands of the Jaguar-powered, bugs-in-face customized '51 Chevy. But you ask me, all these internal-combustion vehicles are getting a trifle monotonous. We need to change things up today, by looking at a pair of external-combustion vehicles. Yes, steam-powered cars! Thanks (and a PCH Tipster T-shirt) go to dwegmull for finding these cars for us. More » -
#projectcarhell
Project Car Hell, Arc-Weld Your Soul Edition: Electric 911 or Electric Spitfire?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we saw the triple-'49-Mercury deal obliterate the six-four by what may be the biggest-ever margin in Choose Your Eternity Poll history: 80-20 for the Mercuries in the Low And Slow Edition poll. Today we've become so excited over the possibility that the$30,000$40,000 Chevy Volt will be on the street in the not-so-distant future that we're going electric, and we're not talking about golf carts or even AMCs here- no, we mean electric vintage European sports cars! More » -
#electraking
DOTS-O-Rama Sunday: B&Z Electric Car Electra King
Two-thirds of California's population lives in the southern part of the state, so it stands to reason that the Down On The California Street series would have to return to SoCal after a few Bay Area machines. Makeopalpyse, of Team Make:Way fame, shot this car in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. Yes, folks, you're looking at a hyper-rare Electra King here, with a blistering top speed of 18 MPH. Hmmm... wonder if it would be possible to stuff enough electrons in it to beat Plasma Boy's electric Datsun? Jump to read Makeopalypse's description. More » -
#chooseyoureternity
PCH, Diesel Dilemma Edition: Diesel RX-7 or Diesel Lynx?
We had another close race down the highway to the Lake of Fire yesterday, with the so-called win going to the triple helping of '55 Austin FX3 cabs in the Choose Your Eternity poll. Today, however, I'm inspired by the big drums of used tempura-frying oil I saw waiting for disposal behind the Japanese take-out joint near my house; think of all that potential carbon-neutral fuel just sitting there, waiting for some enterprising sort to put together a veggie-oil diesel machine to burn it up! Actually, what we really want is a diesel that runs on liposuction fat harvested from cosmetic surgeons- imagine the sheer coolness of driving a car that runs on human flesh- but the next best thing is a project fueled by your soul! More »
