For those long freeway drives I wanted cruise control. This is the story of how I hid the buttons in the classic Nardi steering wheel
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It’s time to properly manage those batteries for safe driving, charging, and balancing.
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After 26 months in the shop I drove the car home! Now I drive it everywhere I go. Taking the kids to school, to work, to tennis. I’ve already let a few Mustangs know who’s boss.
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Now that the coupe is ready for daily service, it is time to turn our attention to the interior. What was until very recently nothing but steel and wires is now becoming a nicely detailed driving environment.
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Over the last nine months I’ve incrementally added components to get us to the road-worthy car we drive today. Each addition had just been temporarily wired in for our testing. Now it’s time to rip that all out and properly wire up the car.
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I wanted to preserve the classic instrument cluster with its analog gauges, while adding a nice digital display.
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Now that we’ve driven the coupe around the neighborhood we came to a crossroads. At this point in a typical restoration one would strip the car back to its shell and send it to paint. I could not be more excited to be to that point…
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We convert an Audi TT gear shifter to provide a classic touch to gear selection in the coupe.
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After 18 months of restoration and fabrication, we finally drive the car!
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Before dramatically increasing our horsepower, we should first increase our stopping power.
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With the batteries all in the car we can now run the motor without are huge extension cord.
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Getting all those battery modules under the hood took a lot of planning, aluminum and patience.
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Our ongoing effort of freeing up space for batteries led us to installing our brakes backwards.
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To drive this car on a daily basis it was important to increase comfort, convenience, support, and safety when it came to the seats.
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Our most exciting day by far is the day we spun the wheels with the Tesla drive unit. Here’s the story of how we got there.
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We boldly take on 45 years of rust to rebuild a better-than-new structure to the coupe.
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When it comes to our steering setup we wanted to do something with terrific feel while saving space and weight.
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This week we got the Tesla drive unit installed into the Coupe.
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Our sunroof area was toast. We had to decide to fill her in or bring her back from the grave. Here’s the story…
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With steel and perseverance in hand, we move section by section cutting out the cancerous rust and properly sorting out the coupe.
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