# Dear: deathproof001.... **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 13, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dear-deathproof001/44979 "2008-03-13T16:53:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dear-deathproof001/44979/11 "2008-03-14T08:46:18Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > Fucking negative Nancys. > > Life ain’t that bad. > > Oh, and no a 100mpg car could not be easily accomplished unless you radically change what we know as a “car.” It’d be tiny and slow. Plus someone would do it and sell a billion of them. Before you say that big oil pays people to not build them, at least put on your tinfoil hat first. Actually my shop teacher Mr. Fini did this about 20 years ago. He has maybe 10 of his super cars. He has 3 jeeps and a mini home made corvette styled car. They are all powered but small (20-40hp) 4 stroke gas motors. He designed and patented a two speed CVT tranny, and generally uses a pinto rear end. He also made some interesting electric hybrids. He would connect the output shaft of the gas motor directly to a electric motor. You start off with the e-motor, and there is a clutch you manually control that bump started the gas motor. When the gas motor is in use the car can travel up to 55mph and also uses the e-motor to re-charge the batteries. The e-motor is used at lower speeds generally. There is a battery meter that you have to watch, in order to trigger the gas motor then they are getting low. He is a smart guy that the government screwed. They told him his cars couldn’t be sold mass market and pretty much with the help of big oil company’s money kept him down and unknown. The cars only cost about 5-7K to build with all new parts. He drove to DC and back on one tank of gas and had more to go. There has been a few article about him in Artvoice. The government later offered him 2 million dollars to implement his designs into the hummer to extend its range and he told them to fu@k off. Cool dude too. He plays the squeeze box and still has his 71’ gto he bought brand new. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dear-deathproof001/44979)._