Glad to hear Clare Bell is well. I never knew she'd written kids' books. She was a major contributor to the EVDL in its early days. Here are a couple of her posts from September of 1996.
>From Ce****@AOL.COM Mon Sep 16 08:54:28 1996 Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 01:14:58 -0400 From: Clare Bell <Ce****@AOL.COM> Reply-To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> To: Multiple recipients of list EV <[email protected]> Subject: Have donor 914, will build EV I just bought another gas 914 - it was such a deal I couldn't let it go. If anyone wants an electric 914, I can build one just like Black Magic, or any other way. The one I just got is a 1973, red with black top, nice interior, no cracks in the vinyl dash and it even has aftermarket air-conditioning, which could probably be run off a separate small electric motor. They make a very nice mid-distance commuter. Vince Bradley had Black Magic (1976 914 EV conversion) for a while and he was making a run from Belmont, CA down to Lockheed in Sunnyvale. Some days he didn't even charge at work. He used the car for three weeks and then he made a run from Belmont over Hiway 92 to Hiway 1 and then down the coast to Santa Cruz, a 62-mile run with some good ups and downs. Black Magic also did 84 miles on nearly brand-new batteries in the 1995 EAA Rally at Lockheed, coming in 3rd. This car lives at 2300 ft above sea level and regularly makes trips up and down the Santa Cruz mountains on very wind-y roads (fun!). I used to use #13 for trips from South San Jose over to Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz while I was working on Black Magic. #13's batteries were hot, (would charge to a specific gravity of 13.00) so that increased their capacity, but the car was pretty amazing. I "hopped the hill" on Hiway 17 about 10 or 15 times. I also used to commute from south San Jose to San Francisco, charging at both ends. These EVs are strong enough and handle well enough to race and autocross. Brown's kit, by the way, includes all the 914 suspension upgrades (heavier torsion bar and 180 lb adjustable platform Koni or Bilstein coilover shocks) If anyone wants a "Green 914", or help building one, let me know. I love putting these cars together and getting them on the road. Fourteener Fanatic CB Have donor 914, will build EV ===== >From Ce****@AOL.COM Mon Sep 23 19:25:05 1996 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:13:51 -0400 From: Clare Bell <Ce****@AOL.COM> Reply-To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> To: Multiple recipients of list EV <[email protected]> Subject: Gearboxes, EV1 book, Smog2 On VW-Porsche conversions, I replace the hypoid gear oil with Redline Automatic Transmission Fluid. It has less hydraulic drag. Since you don't have an ICE engine heating and thinning the transmission fluid, ATF or Mobil One works fine. {snip] David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
