EV1 at Nettercutt Museum

[GPowers]

Had the privlage of see one of the few remaining EV1s at the Nettercutt Museum this weekend. Awesome looking car. Hard to believe perfectly good working cars were destroyed.

GM let a few museums have NON-working EV1 to display.

At Nettercutt all the cars, on display, work and are registered with license plates, all except the EV1! In fact once a year during the company picnic employees get to drive the cars.

 

[TomT]

I love the Nethercutt Museum! I've been there many times!

Had the privlage of see one of the few remaining EV1s at the Nettercutt Museum this weekend. Awesome looking car. Hard to believe perfectly good working cars were destroyed.
GM let a few museums have NON-working EV1 to display. At Nettercutt all the car on display work and are registered with license plates, all except the EV1!

 

[mwalsh]

Sweet! The Peterson in LA has one too. But I think it's tucked away in the parking garage, not on general display like this. I like the ones they've given to colleges (and they've got them going again) best!

 

[GPowers]

Sweet! The Peterson in LA has one too. But I think it's tucked away in the parking garage, not on general display like this. I like the ones they've given to colleges (and they've got them going again) best!

At Nettercutt it is in the basement across the street form the public Nettercutt museum. You need to make an appointment for a private tour to see the EV1. It is not part of the public display.

 

[darelldd]

Boy that brings back memories... seeing it all shiny and pretty. Even in my color!

 

[mitch672]

Hard to believe perfectly good working cars were destroyed.

in "Revenge" Bob Luts admits this was GM's biggest mistake. After spending nearly 1 Billion USD on the EV1 program, they ended up with nothing to show for it (and a very bad public image, that many still do not forgive/forget, to this very day), and essentialy "gave" the green market to the Toyota Prius, a decision they ended up regretting, and ultimatley led to GMs bankruptcy, when they could have had a 10 year lead. It just shows you what 1 bad decision's "butterfly effect" can be.

 

[Boomer23]

The Nethercutt is a fabulous day's adventure for those who love cars, but also for lovers of history and music. There is a player piano that plays "Rhapsody in Blue" with Gershwin's own keystrokes recorded on the player drum. And upstairs, the finale of the tour with automated musical devices from all over the world, including huge "orchestrions" and an amazing organ is a never to be forgotten experience.

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[mwalsh]

Boy that brings back memories... seeing it all shiny and pretty. Even in my color!

Great pic Darell!

Time for me to bounce my own memento of EV1 closeness:

 

[GPowers]

The Nethercutt is a fabulous day's adventure for those who love cars, but also for lovers of history and music. There is a player piano that plays "Rhapsody in Blue" with Gershwin's own keystrokes recorded on the player drum. And upstairs, the finale of the tour with automated musical devices from all over the world, including huge "orchestrions" and an amazing organ is a never to be forgotten experience.

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And is is all FREE

 

[muus]

The EV1 story is a very sad one

Reminds me of the story of the Avro CF-105 Arrow. Back in 1953 the Canadian government spent hundreds of millions of dollars to design and build a state of the art interceptor aircraft. In 1959 after five were completed the project was cancelled and all plans, planes and parts were ordered destroyed. The plane was far ahead of it's time as it promised a speed of Mach 2 at altitudes exceeding 50,000 ft.

Over 14000 employees directly employed by Avro lost their jobs and as many in the supply line. As a result Canada has lost any technical edge they would of had if the project wasn't cancelled.

They made a movie on this story (staring Dan Aykroyd).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118641/

1. car/plane state of the art designed and built
2. project cancelled
3. car/planes destroyed
4. movie made about the sad story

(If anyone is interested in learning more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow and http://www.avroarrow.org/)