{"id":1582,"date":"2009-02-16T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2009-03-03T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T00:07:48","slug":"nasa-retiree-makes-his-own-electric-car-out-of-rusted-vw-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"NASA retiree makes his own electric car out of rusted VW Beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manvel resident John Hendrickson remembers racing Volkswagen Beetles in his younger days.<\/p>\n

Those days are long gone, but he still drives a VW, and this one is different that all those others. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because he never has to fill it with gas.<\/p>\n

It was while filling his Cadillac at a gas station in 2007 that Hendrickson first thought about building an electric car.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought gas stations were ripping us off, so I decided to just go build my own electric car,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hendrickson said.<\/p>\n

He asked a neighbor if he knew of any VWs for sale. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how he learned of another neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rusted 1972 Beetle that hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been used in over five years. Hendrickson bought it and parked it in his garage.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much to look at,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was full of snakes and fire ants. We had to cut small trees that were growing up through it, and drag it out of the woods.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d…\u00c2\u00a0 More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manvel resident John Hendrickson remembers racing Volkswagen Beetles in his younger days. Those days are long gone, but he still drives a VW, and this one is different that all those others. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because he never has to fill it with gas. It was while filling his Cadillac at a gas station in 2007 that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}