Loren Let Me Have It!

[LORENSWIFE]

Wooo Hooo!
I put chrome edging around the wheel wells and the hood this weekend. Loren made some much needed upgrades to the way the roof mounts. It was very noisey and rattly going down the road but I bought some plumbing washers and he used some foamy grey weather strip and now the roof is quite as a mouse....
I will take some pictures tonight.

[oldsman71]

WOW! that is a cute little car! did it used to be a golf cart?

[LORENSWIFE]

It was never a golf cart it was meant to be used for ladies to go to the grocery store or post office.
Here are some omore pictures of other ones. Autoette was the name of the company but I am still researching and am not really sure if mine is one of those or not.
Mine was presented as a Electra King Sports Rider.

Electric Car stuff:


From the flipper TV series



Actual Dealerships

[LORENSWIFE]

A note I just received from Larry Fisher of the Autoette Project....

Hi Gail,

You’ve found a real jewel with your Sports Rider! Congratulations.

Do you have the serial number for your car (usually located on a little plaque on the dashboard)? The curved rear corners are evidence that you have one of the earlier models.

In answer to your questions, I do have tech information on these cars and electrical diagrams. Much will depend on dating the car. In addition to a serial number, a photo of the area under the seat and the speed control will also help determine which car you have.

The car originally had chrome baby moons on it. These are still available from Vintage Golf Car Parts in Washington state. Tell the owner, Rod Wilde that I sent you. He’s a good friend and very helpful on some of these things. Your car also had a plexiglass windshield and rear window. These are both easily fabricated by most plastics shops. I usually recommend working with someone who does this work on boats as they do a much better job than most. They should also be able to help you with the rubber molding for the rear window. If you need to know the profile of that rubber I have it here.

[70chevyC-10]

That's pretty neat information he provided there.

[oletrux4evr]

That's pretty neat information he provided there.

Yeah....wonder if he knows anything about '40 Fords...........

[pdub]

That's pretty neat information he provided there.

A sub-culture of neat stuff. So much to learn...

[Beagle]

Every time I see this thread title, I think "One of these times, pow, right in the kisser"... and so glad it's a relic instead!

[pdub]

Every time I see this thread title, I think "One of these times, pow, right in the kisser"... and so glad it's a relic instead!

Yeah, me too Beags, but in another direction. Thinking dirty of course. Yeah, relics are good and Gail's so evermore happy about having it. Cool stuff.

But to your line of thought, there is that, too. So terribly socially incorrect to even mention it nowadays, but so funny way back then:

[BluLightning]