Should classic cars be converted to electric?

(6 Apr 2024)
UK ELECTRIC CLASSIC CARS

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Birmingham, United Kingdom - 22 March 2024
1. Wide of electric conversion Gordon-Keeble
2. Close pan left of electric motor
3. Low angle of man looking at Gordon-Keeble
4. Set up shot of Stephen Kirby, West Berkshire Classic Vehicle Club, looking at vehicle
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Kirby, West Berkshire Classic Vehicle Club:
"I'm not a great lover of electric cars, to be perfectly honest. But this one had a new lease of life because it had an electric motor put into it. I don't think it really wouldn't have been out and being used if it hadn't have had that happen."

6. Close of two men looking at car
7. Mid pan left from Gordon-Keeble to electric motor
8. Various of interior of the car
9. Wide of men looking at electric car
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Kirby, West Berkshire Classic Vehicle Club:
"The younger generation, they probably weren't brought up with these big, powerful engine cars. I think they probably are all about performance and to be honest, this car is quick. It's very quick. I mean, all electric cars are fast cars."

11. Wide of men working on Mini Clubman
12. View through the bonnet of man working on Mini Clubman
13. Low angle of men working on Mini Clubman
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Hopkins, editor, Practical Classics magazine:
"There's always going to be the place for the perfect restoration, the concourse restoration, keeping a car original, that's absolutely core to what we do. But around all of that, lots of modification, electrification, things people want to do to make their classics personal to them as well. It's all part of this mad hobby we're in."

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ARCHIVE: London, UK - 24 February 2023
15. Wide of classic car owner getting into Austin Healey
16. Over the shoulder of starting engine
17. Low angle of Austin-Healey driving away
18. Tracking shot of car driving through London
19. Low angle of wheels driving
20. Close of steering wheel driving
21. Low angle tracking shot lifts to bonnet

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Birmingham, UK - 22 March 2024
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Hopkins, editor, Practical Classics magazine:
"You do take some of the soul out of a car when you swap the engine for an electric motor. But I think actually people want to just enjoy, particularly in cities, their classic in cities, and keep it clean and keep it cheap and keep it maintenance-free on the whole then, yeah, an electric motor does make a lot of sense."

23. Electric Porsche 911 bonnet being opened
24. Wide of electric Porsche 911
25. Rear view of electric Porsche 911

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ARCHIVE: London, UK - 24 February 2023
26. Various of electric Jaguar E-Type

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Birmingham, UK - 22 March 2024
27. Wide of Triumph TR5
28. Interior shot of TR5
29. Set up shot of Mike Bindon, classic Triumph TR5 owner
30. Close zoom to engine
31. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Bindon, classic Triumph TR5 owner:
"Changing one of these cars to electric would in some ways be a sin. I think we have to acknowledge that these cars have very limited use, so the emissions which they produce over a given amount of time I think is really small."

32. Close pan right of front of TR5
33. Close of photo board showing the stages of restoration of the TR5
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Bindon, classic Triumph TR5 owner:

35. Various of mechanic James Colman fixing water pump in his Ford Granada
36. SOUNDBITE (English) James Colman, Ford Granada owner:

37. Various of classic cars at the show


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