As dumb as that name is, it's not as dumb as "Le Car".
There's one of those is Raleigh.
Its a 1980 and has been in the garage since 1980 lololol. 
Calling this thing a Leopard is just cruel.
Sacre bleu!
OH FSM! You drunken pirate bastard, how could you tempt me at the exact moment when I have $500 my wife doesn't know about?
An electric LeCarcass!
I have an acquaintance that is restoring one of those.
I offered to help him resto-mod it with modern electric forklift parts, but he wanted no parts of that, all original or not at all was goal. I should probably forward this to him, it might be the only way make his "right"
In reply to etifosi:
It even comes with comprehensive documentation, and a clean title. What more could you want?
Hmm. Going to jersey Saturday. Fit in bed of ram?
In reply to patgizz:
Probably, and all those old dead batteries are probably worth $100 at the scrap yard. When lead scrap was really high they'd have been worth twice that.
If only you could find a wrecked tesla for some parts...
It's worth $500 for a rust free, low mileage roller. Dump the electrics and put in a FWD drive train of your choice.That's a 1700 pound car. Anything over 100 HP would be entertaining.
I would so buy that if it was around here. I've never heard of them.
I love that they spelled it lectric.
My dad and his old cronie buddies were hanging out one day talking about their cars. One old duffer asked another what LS meant on his car.
"Lectric start".
I about fell out of my chair.
I kinda want that...
In reply to Woody: I'm glad it isn't just me.
Has there been an electric challenge car yet?
Y'know, if you dumped the lead-acid batteries and put in a bank of Braille Lithium-Ions in their place, that thing would probably work pretty good.
Those are $180 bucks apiece, so a bank of 5 is about $900. They also would trim the weight by about 150 lbs. There would be plenty enough space to bank 10 of them in that space if you need more range.
Huh. That's almost tempting.
In reply to jstein77:
Or do what Nacho did when he did the hybrid Fiero- find some old hybrid batteries, and figure out how to change via the wall.
alfadriver wrote: In reply to jstein77: ...figure out how to change via the wall.
Was that a mis-type? Not sure what you meant by that.
The Electric Leopard
When I saw the title I was hoping it was one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henney_Kilowatt
jstein77 wrote:alfadriver wrote: In reply to jstein77: ...figure out how to change via the wall.Was that a mis-type? Not sure what you meant by that.
yes- should be charge, I'm not sure how to charge a hybrid battery system effectively via the wall. Nacho left his car purely hybrid.
I live so close... so tempting just as a runabout from home to work (10 miles each way)
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