NEIL YOUNG wants fuel-efficient cars, and as a politically active rock star, he wants everyone else to have them, too. But Mr. Young is not ready to give up his love of big cars, and he doesn’t think many other drivers are, either.
Mr. Young called the 1959 Lincoln Continental one of the "the craziest and most out-there designs" of its time.
So Mr. Young, the iconoclastic godfather of grunge, has assembled a team to turn a nearly 20-foot-long, 5,000-pound 1959 Lincoln Continental into a vehicle that will run on natural gas, electricity or some other form of clean energy. His aim is to win the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge to develop a vehicle that can get 100 miles per gallon or better by 2009.
He’s calling the project
Linc Volt and he picked that Lincoln from his collection because it was his “favorite of the craziest and most out-there designs that American automobile manufacturers had come up with,” Mr. Young said. “I thought it would be a good poster child for the latest in technology.”
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Via NY Times; By DAN FOST Published: October 29, 2008
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Ready for the House +
LINC VOLT (tons of info)
Special thanks to RC!
Go to the Link Volt Site to see the gallery of cars, trucks, Transport trucks, SUVs and anything for current conversions. ANYTHING YOU WANT!
Cabin note....
(there has never been a more perfect time for the technology to change with the big 3 in need of bail out and solutions for all in alternate fueling. Give 'em their loan with stipulations for re-tooling the plants(NEW JOBS), begin the road to energy independence(National Security) and 'in house' investments!(economy)
NEIL YOUNG wants fuel-efficient cars, and as a politically active rock star, he wants everyone else to have them, too. But Mr. Young is not ready to give up his love of big cars, and he doesn’t think many other drivers are, either.
Mr. Young called the 1959 Lincoln Continental one of the "the craziest and most out-there designs" of its time.
So Mr. Young, the iconoclastic godfather of grunge, has assembled a team to turn a nearly 20-foot-long, 5,000-pound 1959 Lincoln Continental into a vehicle that will run on natural gas, electricity or some other form of clean energy. His aim is to win the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10 million challenge to develop a vehicle that can get 100 miles per gallon or better by 2009.
He’s calling the project Linc Volt and he picked that Lincoln from his collection because it was his “favorite of the craziest and most out-there designs that American automobile manufacturers had come up with,” Mr. Young said. “I thought it would be a good poster child for the latest in technology.”
Read More
Via NY Times; By DAN FOST Published: October 29, 2008
+ Ready for the House + LINC VOLT (tons of info)
Special thanks to RC!
Go to the Link Volt Site to see the gallery of cars, trucks, Transport trucks, SUVs and anything for current conversions. ANYTHING YOU WANT!
Cabin note....
(there has never been a more perfect time for the technology to change with the big 3 in need of bail out and solutions for all in alternate fueling. Give 'em their loan with stipulations for re-tooling the plants(NEW JOBS), begin the road to energy independence(National Security) and 'in house' investments!(economy)
