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Plug In Baby Photography Larry Chen

The notion of reinventing classic cars with electric powertrains is increasingly big business these days. It makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons; despite the tiny overall percentage of global carbon emissions that are attributable to classics, they are an easy target for legislation because they’re so visible. Couple this with the fact that certain old cars are proving increasingly tricky to find replacement parts and maintenance items for, and you can certainly see the logic of extracting the aged oily bits and dropping in a shiny new electric motor.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle for people like us (that is, dyed-in-the-wool petrolheads) to vault is that none of this really fits in with the way we’ve always liked to do things. The character of any individual engine, it’s idiosyncrasies of maintenance and of power

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