Classic Cars Become Electric Vehicles At This California Garageband. Most classic vehicles, including the mustang, weren’t designed to handle that much weight — or the increased performance that comes with a powerful electric motor. A vintage volkswagen and other classic cars get new life at michael bream’s workshop.

Working out of a garage under a railway arch in vauxhall, the company replaces the combustion engines in classic cars with electric motors and batteries that would otherwise be scrapped. A small but expanding group of tinkerers, racers, engineers and entrepreneurs across the country are converting vintage cars and trucks into greener electric vehicles, in part due to recent.