RANT: Electric Conversions, Not what you think...... Options

[KaptKaos]

There's a fellow selling a motor in the classifieds. Here's the link:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=92077

Seems normal enough. I assume, maybe wrongly, that this person is using the car for an electric conversion.

I have no issue with people converting their cars to electric motors. However, I am wondering if it is reasonable to ask or inform the people that are looking to do this to please try to use '76 cars? This is particularly important in California, as the smog checks in California aren't required on Pre-76 cars.

There are two counter arguments that I can think of and they are:

1) '76 cars are fairly rare, and therefore either more expensive and/or harder to find.
2) The point of an electric conversion is to reduce emissions, so using a car that has higher emissions makes more sense.

I am not sure if this is practical/possible/reasonable/feasible, so I figured that I'd ask.

Am I out of line here?

Please note that I mean no ill will to the seller above.

[L8KTAHO]

I own a contractor company and need fully loaded work trucks everyday. I have a sister in law who has 5 kids, and needs a huge suv(suburban) to bus them around in. I hate big suv's too, what to do. My entire town(Reno) 400k pop, owns at least "one" truck. This is a mtn. town with lots of snow. Will the electric cars/trucks get towns like mine/colorado/utah/california around in all this snow? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[smontanaro]

This is a mtn. town with lots of snow. Will the electric cars/trucks get towns like mine/colorado/utah/california around in all this snow? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

Not immediately, but someday, maybe? One thing to understand is that a switch from gas to electric is not likely to ever be 100%, certainly not in the next couple decades, but if lots of people who can drive electric (or take public transit or telecommute or carpool or ...) do, then there will be that much more oil left for people who have no other viable option.