[Spridgets] CHEC - Classic Hybrid Electric Car

bighealey at charter.net bighealey at charter.net
Wed Apr 1 13:35:57 MST 2009


Well known British car restorer and long time fixture in the California club racing scene Ralph Chechonit heads a new company (CHEC) with a unique offering to battle the raising costs of gas.  The new cars to be produced involve retrofitting older lightweight British and Italian Sports cars with moder Hybrid drivetrains. The new venture leverages older classic cars and new hybrid and electronic technology.  A company spokesperson collaborated rumors of large government involvement and the use of stimulus funds rather than traditional start up venture capital.

Having unveiled three prototypes including a convertible MGA, Austin Healey 100 BN2 model and an Alfa Romero GTV potential customers were clamoring to get orders in for their new cars. Spokesperson Debra Jaeger says company buyers have been buying up Austin Healeys and Alfa Romeros from eBay, Craigslist and private sellers in record fashion.  She said the cars are stripped of their old motors and transmissions and retro fitted with electric hybrid power trains supplied by their Chinese affiliate in Shanghai.  The interiors are replaced with synthetic velour in bright colors doing away with leather interiors that animal right activists might find offensive.  The exteriors are painted in your choice of flourscent green, dayglow orange or banana peel yellow.

The company has reportedly been buying large numbers of Austin Healeys and other cars as cores for their products.  Per company President Chechonit the old original cars are loud, clunky and useless as a practical form of transportation.  The resulting cars and much safer, more tame and lack the noisiness of the originals which typically are gross polluters anyway.  As he says we are taking useless old junk and making a real useful and desirable product.


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