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-====== introduction ======+====== introduction ​and video ====== 
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 +==== to start with ... ==== 
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 +Short movie clip with impressions from driving electrical ! 
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 May I first shortly introduce myself - My name is Richard, and I am living in Vienna, Austria (Europe). For the past two years I have been spending most of my spare time in a small garage, which is already nearly filled by the dust-covered carcass of an old car, that does not seem to change over months. May I first shortly introduce myself - My name is Richard, and I am living in Vienna, Austria (Europe). For the past two years I have been spending most of my spare time in a small garage, which is already nearly filled by the dust-covered carcass of an old car, that does not seem to change over months.
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 And finally and for sure the main reason - I like doing "​bricolage"​ and wanted to once have a project where something useful comes out (see e.g. [[http://​members.aon.at/​8425025/​r2_bericht.htm||Richard restores a vintage radio (German text)]] ​ And finally and for sure the main reason - I like doing "​bricolage"​ and wanted to once have a project where something useful comes out (see e.g. [[http://​members.aon.at/​8425025/​r2_bericht.htm||Richard restores a vintage radio (German text)]] ​
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-[[http://http://​ev.stiftswiese.at/​1102_Philips/​Philips_Premiere61.htm|Richard restores another vintage radio (German text) - extra tedious!]]+[[http://​ev.stiftswiese.at/web/​1102_Philips/​Philips_Premiere61.htm|Richard restores another vintage radio (German text) - extra tedious!]]
 as an illustration of how you can spend 100+ hours on something that is finally only collecting dust on your shelf). as an illustration of how you can spend 100+ hours on something that is finally only collecting dust on your shelf).
  
-I have started the conversion in Autumn 2011, and am looking forward to snapping in the license plates in Autumn 2013. 
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-Let me please provide ​little teaser: [[http://​ev.stiftswiese.at/​web/​wiki_external/​movie/​scale02.wmv|the first meters - Markus drives the Astra up the trailer]] (right-click and save the file, if your browser refuses to play it). The short video clip shows the car in a still quite unfinished state and still with provisional lead-acid traction battery, returning from obtaining the axle weights on a scale.+After lengthy procedure, I finally got road admission for the car in March 2014. 
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 +This was one of the first shots of the car running electric: [[http://​ev.stiftswiese.at/​web/​wiki_external/​movie/​scale02.wmv|the first meters - Markus drives the Astra up the trailer]] (right-click and save the file, if your browser refuses to play it). The short video clip shows the car in a still quite unfinished state and still with provisional lead-acid traction battery, returning from obtaining the axle weights on a scale.
  
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