But in practice you'll probably only ever use second and third gear. By using the electric motor’s forward/reverse switch (on the dashboard) in combination with the original 4-speed (plus reverse) transmission, you have access to five forward gears and five reverse. You can leave it in third gear and drive it like an automatic - no shifting and no clutching required - or you can shift using the clutch like any standard transmission car. Rather than summarize it myself, I'll leave you this quick explanation from the seller: So to oversimplify, the car does give up a little weight and some range for its power and performance advantage, but what I think is really cool with this build is the preservation of the manual transmission. So in all, we have somewhere around 460 pounds of EV hardware (pretty comparable to the ICE hardware at 420 pounds) with a range of 80 to 100 miles. It’s tough to find much on the web about these batteries, but the seller lists the capacity at 20 kWh and states that they haven’t been abused. That point is sure to gain favor with the traditional crowd (myself included), but to really test the concept, we have to see how it stacks up against the Triumph’s standard specification.Īccording to the seller, the motor weighs 130 pounds, but you also have to factor in the 330 pounds of LiFePO4 batteries. As stated, the builders kept all the car’s original hardware on hand and claim that no modifications have been made to the car’s body or frame, meaning you could revert it back to original at any time.
The car was built by a father-son team to pass time during the COVID 19 pandemic, and they went as far as to document the entire process in a book that’s been published by RLT Industries and available here on Amazon. So you could say there’s a little pressure to not mess it up too bad, and I think the builders did a pretty decent job of it.
The Triumph TR3 isn’t exactly a rare car, with some 83,000 examples built across nine years of production, but it is a beloved and desirable classic that can be worth anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000. I present for your consideration this 1960 Triumph TR3, equipped with a fully-reversible EV swap and all the original driveline hardware included - and most importantly, a functional gearshift in the cockpit. With a lifelong fascination surrounding the internal combustion engine and more than my fair share of nostalgic inspiration, I’m against the idea in most cases, but I’m met with examples every now and then that run my tally of excuses pretty thin. So naturally we conjure up more than a reasonable amount of hesitation when someone proposes EV swapping our classics. Most of us like our cars vintage, and we like them as correct as possible.
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