Vehicle living

Vehicle living

Grease me up

I started working toward converting my car to run on vegetable oil over a year ago. My 1992 Jetta can burn vegetable oil as well as regular diesel fuel; its engine is based on a design by Rudolph Diesel first shown in Paris in 1905, and slightly modified to run on a petroleum product we call diesel, rather than the peanut oil his engine originally used.…

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Vehicle living

Mobile Homesteading

Documented mobile, school bus conversion so others can learn and duplicate thework. A 1991 GMC/Ward 66 Passenger School Bus is shown at the various stages of conversion, and all the steps taken to convert it into a rolling home are documented.…

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Vehicle living

Wanna ride my electric car?

Edward Norton is impenetrable, says the London Times newspaper, quoting approvingly a line he was once allegedly overheard whispering to a lap-dancer in a bar: �I want you to come for a ride in my new electric car.� The London Daily Mirror reported this incident while Norton was still going out with Selma Hayek…

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Vehicle living

Yurt-a-go-go

Living in a yurt, in the countryside, rent free? Nothing more than a daydream surely, or so I thought…..…

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