[Spridgets] CHEC - Classic Hybrid Electric Car

[Jim Proefrock]

Nice try.

On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:35 PM, <bighealey at charter.net>  
<bighealey at charter.net> wrote:

> 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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