Episode 418: Meet the Man Who ‘Tesla-fied’ a DeLorean and a Plymouth Muscle Car
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week I’ve got a lengthy conversation with a man who converted a classic gas-powered muscle car into a long-range beast of a Tesla, and is now doing the same thing to a DeLorean. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, I've got a lengthy conversation with a man who converted a classic gas-powered muscle car into a Tesla and is now doing the same thing to a DeLorian. |
| 0:13.2 | Enjoy. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 418 of |
| 0:39.5 | Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. It comes at you every Sunday at 9 a.m. |
| 0:44.7 | Eastern 6th AM Pacific. This episode for August 6th, 2003. And as you hear this on |
| 0:52.2 | August 6th or later I will have been away on a family |
| 0:56.4 | vacation this past week so everything you're about to hear has been recorded |
| 1:01.8 | ahead of time I've got a really cool |
| 1:03.6 | interview lined up as you could gather from the episode title. I hope you're going to |
| 1:08.4 | enjoy it. It is with Evie Hot Rodder at least I'm going to call him that. |
| 1:12.6 | His name's Kevin Ericsson. |
| 1:14.6 | And so I will be back next week on episode |
| 1:17.4 | 419 with the usual Ride the Lightning show format |
| 1:21.4 | where I analyze the latest Tesla news from that week and I |
| 1:24.6 | take your phone calls from the Ride the Lightning hotline. But in the meantime for |
| 1:29.2 | this week I hope you don't mind that I got to take a little bit of time away with my family |
| 1:34.4 | and I sincerely hope that you enjoy the interview you're about to hear. |
| 1:38.1 | I really had a fun time recording it. I had no idea how long we would talk for whether it would be 20 minutes 30 minutes we |
| 1:45.3 | ended up talking for like 50 minutes it was a great conversation I hope you enjoy it Real quick before that interview with Kevin let me tell you again about |
| 2:05.2 | Accelerate Auto the X Care extended warranty policy designed specifically for |
| 2:09.8 | your Tesla. They have everything up to 10 years of additional coverage and up to an |
| 2:16.0 | additional 125,000 miles of additional coverage as well and they have |
| 2:21.8 | really now differentiated |
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