If not a hybrid or ev what would you drive

Now that I'm thinking about it...

I'd like to drop one of these:



On a Corvette chassis...

 

anything at 1L and above in sport bike category in OEM trim is excessive on street in my books. I'd only recommend Haybasa or ZX-14 to a college defense linebacker, at 6'4" and 350lbs it may be a bike to have.

 

Oh, is that from the movie Back to the Future? I never saw it. Sounded like it would probably be kind of stupid.

 

It was a bit stupid Bra... still... I found it entertaining... but hey... I liked the Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy, and Charlie Chaplain... so what do I know.

 

I like the Stooges, too. I like the absurdity of them. Laurel and Hardy were truly great comedians, and Chaplain was a genius.

I just thought B to the F sounded stupid. Whether it actually was or not, I have no idea, since I never saw it. Just didn't interest me. Very little of what comes out of Hollywood interests me.

 

So it will still handle badly in the corners?

 

and it will not get as good mpg as a Vette either... but... it will have modern underpinnings and safety advances that those built in the 30's didn't... and I like the sound of a Chevy V8...

 

I like the quiet sci-fi spaceship sound of my electric car.

 

I used to have a T-bucket with a Dodge 426, jag rear end, pearl and metallic green paint job... no front brakes, and no doors... so I'm used to driving a car that isn't a pylon chaser too...

The fella I sold the T-bucket too, around the time I got rid of my aircraft, only had it less than as month and he wrecked coming down the hill from Reno... he didn't learn to use the engine as a brake, and I'm sure the rear discs weren't enough in a driving gear... he still hasn't repaired the car, but I think he sold the engine and tranny to another friend of ours if I remember correctly...

One of the reasons I want modern underpinnings in old iron...

 

I wish I could fit in your little car comfortably Bra... I'm sure it IS sweet music on the roadway.

 

I'm 5' 6.5" and weigh (this morning) 141.2 lbs. (The weight is coming off slower than I'd like, but it's coming off.) And I will admit that even for me, getting in and out of the car is a bit awkward. To get in, I have to face away from the car, sit down, then swing my legs in. To get out, I have to swing my legs out, lean forward so my head clears the door, then using my hands on the seat, lift my bum onto the door sill (I know there's a different word for it in a car) and then stand up.

And there's not much space inside. A large passenger can crowd the hand brake.

It's worth it to be able to drive electric, and a big improvement over the Xebra, even though the Xebra was easy to get in and out of. But it does require a bit of contortion. It's a bit easier when the top is off, which happens in summer if the weather is nice. I gather that roadsters in general all suffer from the same problem to one degree or another.

 

No, roadsters do not all have the same problem. For example, the Honda S2000 is easy to get in and out of. The Tesla Roadster and the Lotus Elise/Exige that they are based off of are all difficult.

 

+1 And Corvettes and Porsches are even easier to get in and out of.

 

I'm thinking a Model A with a Ford 427 SOHC and Cobra chassis underneath, set up like a rat rod. I saw one with a 50s outboard motor engine cover for a hood scoop, that was cool.

 

Somehow, I never thought of my Porsche as a roadster. I checked Wikipedia and I see that a roadster is any open-top two-seat sports car. So you guys are right. I had thought the term was more limited, referring to a sub-category of very low-to-the-ground (and therefore awkward) cars. I was mistaken.

 

A "Roadster" used to only be a car with a fold down top, driver assembled, or no top without roll up windows. There were Model T and Model A roadsters. The term has been diluted to include sporty convertibles.
Wiki does a pretty good job of explaining it
[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadster]Roadster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame].

The first 2 years of Corvettes were roadsters. They had fold down tops and didn't have roll up windows. Some roadster tops were a collection of unattached metal bows and a canvas top that the driver assembled when he wanted some weather protection.

Cars with fold down tops and roll up windows are convertibles, but the terms roadster and convertible have been so misused for the past few decades that few care which term is used anymore.

 

My Tesla "Roadster" has a cloth top with two metal support bars. To remove it I unclip some clips at the sides, roll it up, remove the metal bars, and put the whole thing in the small trunk. It does have windows that go up and down electrically. There is an optional hard top which is held in place by screws of a sort. It is easily removed, so they say, but does not fit anywhere in the car so cannot be carried along. I did not get the hard top. I do have, in addition to the cloth top, an after-market mesh top, which lets in some wind and sun, but much less than with no top.