{"id":1348,"date":"2010-04-05T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/electric-bug\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T14:17:08","slug":"electric-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/electric-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p><b>The Electric Bug Project (The Plug Bug)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My next project has started! I\u2019m planning on converting a 1969 VW bug to run on electricity. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and originally I was looking for a VW bus to convert, However, I eventually decided to not use a bus, since they aren\u2019t very aerodynamic, and are quite hard to find in good shape for a decent price.<\/p>\n<p>I found a great bug on craigslist that I\u2019m quite happy with. I bought it last Saturday from a wonderful man named Ed, who lives in San Jose and was the original owner. He took fantastic care of the bug, and it is in great shape considering it is 40 years old. There is some rust on the floor boards of the back seats, and the roof is starting to get a little rusty, but everything is there and is pretty straight. I\u2019m hoping to convert it and do a good job restoring it to look cool again. It will definitely have a happy second life when I\u2019m done with it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"landscape\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_8093.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_8093-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"IMG_8093.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"landscape\">\n  \n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Primary goal: Drive to work and back, ideally without charging (it is 20 miles each way, with a <em>large<\/em> hill on the way home)<\/li>\n<li>Fallback goal: Drive to work, charge, and drive home.<\/li>\n<li>Secondary goal: Restoration. I first have to finish one last item around the house before I can really dig in and start this project. My upstairs railing project got stalled for a few months while I remodeled a house in Aptos, and I\u2019ve been dying to finish it. I got a bit of work done on it this past weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electric Bug Project (The Plug Bug) My next project has started! I\u2019m planning on converting a 1969 VW bug to run on electricity. I have been wanting to do this for quite some time&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/electric-bug\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_8093.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}