Starting Again (photo: Steve Payne)
Over the holidays, the “Revenge” team spent time filming with Greg “Gadget” Abbott as he moved into a cavernous new warehouse space in downtown LA.
Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric. He’s also the star of the TV shows “Smash Lab” and “Monster House”- where he’s shown millions of viewers how to build eye-popping structures from the most unlikely materials. Gadget’s motto is : “If you think it can’t be done, then you’re talking to the wrong people!”
Gadget made a barnstorming appearance in “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and he’s taking a bigger role in “Revenge.” That’s partly because Gadget’s new 2000 square foot shop is being built out of the ashes of his old shop in Culver City. Late last year, Gadget’s workshop was destroyed in a fire. The blaze took away some of Gadget’s most prized work, including a super sleek electric powered Silver Porsche which featured at PlugInAmerica’s Sept 08 gala fundraiser alongside the Tesla Roadster and GM’s Volt prototype. Most people would have been knocked flat by such a turn of events, but the fire seems to have made Gadget and his wife, Charlotte, even more determined to push for a plug-in future.
As befits a man with ten Guinness World Records under his belt, (including the world’s largest electric guitar), Gadget’s rising to the challenge. As 2009 progresses, we’ll be at Gadget and Charlotte’s side as they rebuild their lives. Stage One is transforming an abandoned LA warehouse and rebuilding his silver electric Porsche into a scalable production vehicle. Stay tuned…
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I’m looking to seeing how sweetly Gadget pimps out this space.. I got to see his ill-fated Porsche at the ‘08 PlugInAmerica gala and it had me salivating for hours
I can’t wait to see what emerges from his new workshop.
Please also have a look on the project in Norway http://www.think.no
I wanna convert my RSX into an electric rocket…
let me know when..
~R
Nice article mate but scary image
Gadget
I love the electric car deal.. Wow….I would love to make electric cars out of all the muscle cars..Challenger.. 55 Chevy..Camaro..Novas and etc,,,Great Job..
hey i was just wondering did ever try to add an electric generator like a smaller more efficient version of the windmill type to your electric drivetrain that would charge your batteries when the vehicle is moving ive thought about that ever since i heard of electric vehicles and i thought with the technology there would have to be a way if a windmill can produce so much power why cant a scaled down version do the same for a car then you would only have to do the first charge and if the car sat too long even if you put one on each wheel or something there’s got to be a way to make the vehicle self efficient P.S let me know if you need any help
were is your shop at I will like to visit
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