My friend showed up today in a 1974 citicar EV

[harrisonm]

I have a friend named Brandon who has a 72 dart with a 360 and a four speed. We got to be friends over the last few years when he just started showing up with his car in my driveway while I was working on my barracuda. Today, he shows up with a 1974 Citicar electric car. He had just put six or eight, I don’t remember which, new 6 Volt deep cycle batteries in it. He wanted to take me for a ride, but I was in the middle of doing something I just could not break away from. He’s a fun guy to be around. He is a truck driver, so I never know when he’s going to show up, or what he’s going to show up in. The body on this car is not fiberglass, it’s just plain old molded plastic.

 

[RustyRatRod]

That's cool!

 

[eekvonzipper]

My Grandma had a Yellow one in the late 70's. The windows lifted out and sat in the back. Batteries under the seat. The Accel pedal had three modes... waah, Waaah and Waaaahhh!
Hilarious to ride in as a kid!

 

[mopar head]

Put a rack on the back and it could double as a golf cart

 

[harrisonm]

My Grandma had a Yellow one in the late 70's. The windows lifted out and sat in the back. Batteries under the seat. The Accel pedal had three modes... waah, Waaah and Waaaahhh!
Hilarious to ride in as a kid!

You just summed it up perfectly.

Put a rack on the back and it could double as a golf cart

Exactly. It is a lot like a golf cart.

 

[bcschief]

Did you know Ford made an EV ranger 1998 thru 2002? I saw one for sale recently on FB marketplace.

 

[Kern Dog]

I have a friend named Brandon who has a 72 dart with a 360 and a four speed. We got to be friends over the last few years when he just started showing up with his car in my driveway while I was working on my barracuda. Today, he shows up with a 1974 Citicar electric car. He had just put six or eight, I don’t remember which, new 6 Volt deep cycle batteries in it. He wanted to take me for a ride, but I was in the middle of doing something I just could not break away from. He’s a fun guy to be around. He is a truck driver, so I never know when he’s going to show up, or what he’s going to show up in. The body on this car is not fiberglass, it’s just plain old molded plastic.

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Ha!

This video had a LESS than positive opinion.



Start at 6:10.

With a wheel chock shaped body that must have cost tens of dollars to design....
Hilarious!

 

[JDMopar]

That Doofus on Counting Cars (I know...which one?!) Horny Mike found one of those on a car port in Vegas....or maybe it was the Croatian guy and Horny Mike kept making fun of him? Either way, that was the only one I ever saw until now...lol.

 

[YY1]

There were two in a driveway about miles from where I grew up.
An orange one and a yellow one.
I never saw either of them move.
This was from about 1979 to about 1988.

 

[diymirage]

I was visiting a friend in Florida last week

He drives a Jaguar F type, his wife a tesla of some sort

Me and the boy were running down the tesla, finaly he throws me the keys to the jaguar and says "lets go"

From a roll i had the tesla but from a dig, that stupid buzz was right next to the jag, maybe even a nose ahead of it, all the way up to about 100

 

[Mattax]

That's great!
Last one I saw in person was in the Wheels of America museum

Stop in for a cup of coffee

Proceeding when unsafe to do so. She was travelling down a highway. Who the hell backs onto a highway?? And into oncoming traffic? Yeah who knows

www.forabodiesonly.com

 

[Oldiron440]

Maybe it was Counting Cars that I remember this from but I remember seeing someone convert one to a motorcycle engine powering the rear wheels. I would have seen it on YouTube so it could have been anyone.

 

[qkcuda]

I love the guy's commentary. I ended up watching all of it.