The Association of Pedantic Naim Owners will now come to order

Couple of businesses are converting old E-types and I think even Aston Martin to electric

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This should be forbidden. Sacrilege.

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It’s not sacrilege IMHO - it’s arguably disgraceful to keep using older vehicles when they kick out so much toxic junk into the load atmosphere. Just because it’s generally invisible junk doesn’t make it acceptable to casually allow it to be tossed aside. We’re talking poisonous gas here and you think it’s sacrilege to stop kicking it out? Really?

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Society FOR Pedantic Naim Owners, surely?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4257746/A-cycle-of-Pedantry.html

“since the society of pedants is what we enjoy while at a meeting and the society for pedants is the group we would wish to join”.

Sorry.

Can’t agree, they are works of art and their engine is a part of it. Get a Tesla for the daily stuff and leave E-Types alone

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For some. For others it is the external appearance and performance: If the latter can be achieved - and likely beaten (though with care to ensure brakes, suspension and steering can cope) with electric, with zero pollution and contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels (well, taking into account the electricity generation likely reduced not eliminated) - with added benefit of quietness, tgen so much the better!

It’s as if someone took a historic JV amp and put a digital class D into it, because external appearance.

E-Types and old Astons are not in any way measurable contributors to pollution. There are few of them and they are not being driven on the commute. Butchering the few good surviving models because of appearance is IMO pure vanity. Their engine is a part of why they look like they do. If it must look like one, get a replica and put a battery in. Or like I said, get a Tesla for eating the kilometers

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Yes, 6mm squared, be fairly fat if they were 6mm wide! :smiley:

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Not measurable? In global terms, no, but if you tried sitting in one in a non-drafty garage for a couple of hours with the engine running you would likely be dead. So in local terms highly significant

Of course (and so is a battery, locally if you treat it all wrong), but someone locally suffocating themselves with an E-Type is neither a larger of our concerns nor a reason to convert an original into a battery car

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