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I’m waiting in the wings to hear back from ElectricGT and a couple others on parts availability/conversion options for my ‘68 Scout 800... I’ve reached out to Icon motors as well. It’s been months with repeated emails to each. I don’t know if its hesitance due to supply-chain issues, or if they’re actually backed up…

Without my readers, I thought a couple pics were a PT Cruiser.

There are more than a few glass blowers in the county, but none with available studio time like there was here https://www.mnglassart.org/.

Everyone who has visited us from elsewhere has been absolutely floored when they see our surrounding area... a handful of miles through vineyards, orchards, and pastures to get to Hwy. 1. I can go watch surfers enjoy the waves & drive home through Endor in the span of an hour.

CA helps their residents add solar/battery systems & necessary home upgrades with incentives reaching 25% of the total project cost. Similar incentives exist to convert natural gas water and home heat to heat-pump systems.  It’s not much, but it’s a start.  

Rural North Bay Area here, west of the 101... it’s never over 55F at night. We can count the number of afternoons we’ve ran the AC in the past year on two hands. Open the windows at night to cool the house off as much as possible, shut everything and draw shades when outside temp approaches inside temp in the late…

CA also offers huge incentives to add solar/battery to your property. We netted $25k in tax rebates to upgrade our roof to steel with additional fire barrier & add solar & 10kWh storage... we can weather any outage from shutoffs during fire season & get a yearly dividend from PG&E.  We’ve generated near 17 MWh in…

That’s our plan with my Scout 800... there’s plenty of conversion options hitting the market. By the time my 3.2l 4 cylinder dies battery prices and power density will hopefully glean a solid 250 miles of range. I’m curious to see if anyone will start to offer a decent set of 4x4/off road electric powered solid axles/c…

I finished the rust repair and paint on the top cap of my Scout... seeing as how a tree fell on it 35-odd years ago, there’s no way it’ll ever be perfect, but 4 coats of Marine Grade deck paint rolled on over the course of a week with 90 degree dry days made for a nice glossy shell. I need to fix a 1" strip of…

I hope the new Scout line has something small like this... Maybe badge it as an 800.

County, state, and federal incentives netted us ~$25k when we wrote a check for a new roof and solar/battery system a little over a year ago.  Now we get a yearly check from PG&E, which we’ve set aside to go towards our first BEV.  More than likely another Scout.

Does anyone here turn a wrench any more? I read about games becoming movies, some idiot who can’t get their miata to track spec, and reams of blither detailing the process of hiring mobile mechanics to wrench on someone’s umpteenth smart car. The writing here is so fucking phoned in.  Your staff seems more intent on…

Manual windows and locks.

I’m on my 3rd lifetime IH. The first two we rebuilt in the mid 80's and early 90's, and my current has been my DD for two trouble-free years. I love the whine of my timing gears & drivetrain. I can tell what RPM it’s at by what part of the interior is buzzing, and that’s with 30+ lbs. of Kilmat and new bushings…

GenX here giggling like mad & planning for this to be our first BEV.

VW would have a hell of a time getting into the U.S. Off-Road market any other way.  Plus, they have the money and supply resources to pull this off.  I’m strangely optimistic.

A different article said it’ll be a C segment vehicle IIRC the size of a maverick, smaller than the Bronco.

If Scout wants a donor for a BEV conversion, I’d like to get the fuck in line.

My 68 Scout is in fine fettle. I’ve tracked down a few more rattles & applied sound deadening. The Bahama Blue factory color rattlecans came in the other day, I’m going to see how poorly it matches my existing paint & try to get some of my bare metal covered. I’ve yet to weld my spare tire swing-away bracket to my…