Category: Conversions

The Newbird returned today as the guys from Autocar magazine came to visit and drive it to the Nissan plant in Sunderland. Great to meet the guys and talk conversions. We will post when the article comes out.

We also discovered that another YouTube channel, Hubnut, has had the car and done a video on it. Check it out.

I couldn’t help myself posting about this – one of my favourite parts of the conversions we do – well the rear wheel drive ones is the custom aluminium adapters we have made to join the motor and gearbox.

The really sad part is that you don’t get to see them once the car is fully assembled (less you scoot underneath!)

The next update video will give more detail so subscribe to our YouTube channel here but for now here are a few more images

We are going to try to publish regular, hopefully weekly, update videos on our EV conversions via our YouTube channel.

This week we are starting with the 1969 Mercedes 280se we are converting for a customer.

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The guys at Diesel and Eco car magazine have done an article on the Nissan Newbird we built for Nissan.

Take a look at what they had to say.

In between Christmas and New Year, Stephen from Top Gear magazine came and borrowed the Newbird, Nissan Bluebird EV conversion that we carried out for Nissan and he has written an article about it. He seems to like it 🙂

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/bluebird/first-drive

Its time to say goodbye to our wonderful 1967 Morris Minor Convertible EV and move onto our next in-house project.

Full details of the car are here

Back in June 2021 we had the opportunity to work with a local FE college to convert a 1978 Datsun Cherry to electric. The 4 week turn around was extremely tough but as they already has the core parts and also had lots of manpower as they train the apprentices for Nissan, we managed to hit the deadline.

Find out more here in our new EV Conversion portfolio

Earlier in December we had the chance to visit the Nissan heritage fleet and do some filming on the Nissan Newbird with Jonny Smith for his late brake show YouTube channel.

It was a great day and we also got to drive the fantastic micro race car that has a V6 from a 350Z in the rear of it – wild and noise – wonder what it would be like with an electric motor turned up to 11 instead?????