I see some decent parts, or a swap back to ICE. 
With the recent focus on electrique here maybe this will be someones dream car.
I would expect it to go pretty cheap, even if they are not dead I do not see eight or so lead-acid batteries providing much performance.
Maybe one of the electrique freque fanbois here knows how to upgrade and has the deep pockets to make it happen.
That's pretty cool.
Eight batteries up front and a blue box covering ??? in the rear. Hopefully the motor is in the original location.
Wonder what it weighs now, bet it got a lot heavier. It certainly lost all the frunk space.
If it sells really cheap I might buy it to part out.
I think the wheels, transmission, and body parts still have value.
Auto parts store gives $5.00 each for dead batteries, lots of copper wire to recycle. 
There is frustratingly little information on it in the description for something that appears really well done- Especially for Sacramento, they have to have enough EV shops to where the info for this should be easily attained.
In that picture with the battery boxes, it's got 4 lead acids in series connection and shows at least 2 packs, so it's likely a 48 volt system and likely has another couple of packs in the engine compartment- which tells me it's a DC motor, likely a brushed unit out of a forklift that might have seen some small changes and alterations for more power. All the other power electronics are visible, but crusty; the finned box behind the bumper is the inverter for charging, and the box behind that is likely the DC-DC controller so it behaves like a car (instead of what forklifts and electric cars from the 1900s did, which was have contactors flipping and switching between banks of cells, giving "speeds" based entirely on how much voltage they were applying to the motor).
I would argue... that if you got this cheap, it would be actual challenge car material. The way to build high-torque (horsepower for these is kind of accessory due to voltage and lack of liquid cooling) brushed DC motor is commonly known, with details used on RC car motors being applicable to larger cars. Guys on the DIY electric car forums (Search "Duncan's Dubious Device") have posted pictures of similar motor builds to wring more out of them, and lithium packs continue to drop in prices so you're real limitation I'd argue would be in charging and getting batteries that give you voltage that DC-DC converter can play with nicely while also giving you enough speed to accelerate quickly. You could probably push it to 52 Volts no problem just to keep it from getting slow when it's drained, but anything over 60 is likely pushing it on that converter. Going lithium would also easily shave ~500lbs alone off that car, modern stuff probably packs the same power into cells that are a fifth the physical size.
Think I'll keep an eye on it, even though it's half the nation away.
RichardSIA said:Eight batteries up front and a blue box covering ??? in the rear. Hopefully the motor is in the original location.
Wonder what it weighs now, bet it got a lot heavier. It certainly lost all the frunk space.
If it sells really cheap I might buy it to part out.
I think the wheels, transmission, and body parts still have value.
Auto parts store gives $5.00 each for dead batteries, lots of copper wire to recycle.
Even more than that- those batteries are probably a $20 core charge, and there's probably at least 16 of them total. He probably has about twice the length of the car in copper wiring to push electrons to the motor too; just poor engineering, but in their defense it's not like the 914 was made for it lol. That blue box I'd argue, is covering his motor controller so they could try to cut down on wire length and losses to the motor.
The body is easily worth a grand alone, interior EV parts a grand again; I'd say maybe ~$300 for all the battery and wiring, but the motor and drive units are hard to say since we also don't know if they work or not.
you had me at "homemade electric"
Be careful...these cars always have rust under the batteries.
GIRTHQUAKE said:There is frustratingly little information on it in the description for something that appears really well done- Especially for Sacramento, they have to have enough EV shops to where the info for this should be easily attained.
In that picture with the battery boxes, it's got 4 lead acids in series connection and shows at least 2 packs, so it's likely a 48 volt system and likely has another couple of packs in the engine compartment- which tells me it's a DC motor, likely a brushed unit out of a forklift that might have seen some small changes and alterations for more power. All the other power electronics are visible, but crusty; the finned box behind the bumper is the inverter for charging, and the box behind that is likely the DC-DC controller so it behaves like a car (instead of what forklifts and electric cars from the 1900s did, which was have contactors flipping and switching between banks of cells, giving "speeds" based entirely on how much voltage they were applying to the motor).
I would argue... that if you got this cheap, it would be actual challenge car material. The way to build high-torque (horsepower for these is kind of accessory due to voltage and lack of liquid cooling) brushed DC motor is commonly known, with details used on RC car motors being applicable to larger cars. Guys on the DIY electric car forums (Search "Duncan's Dubious Device") have posted pictures of similar motor builds to wring more out of them, and lithium packs continue to drop in prices so you're real limitation I'd argue would be in charging and getting batteries that give you voltage that DC-DC converter can play with nicely while also giving you enough speed to accelerate quickly. You could probably push it to 52 Volts no problem just to keep it from getting slow when it's drained, but anything over 60 is likely pushing it on that converter. Going lithium would also easily shave ~500lbs alone off that car, modern stuff probably packs the same power into cells that are a fifth the physical size.
Think I'll keep an eye on it, even though it's half the nation away.
If you or anyone else here actually buys this I can go get it and store it at my place in Nevada until transport the rest of the way can be arranged.
Not for free but just gas money.
Sold cars have to be picked up within a couple of days or storage charges rack up.
All the cars on that site are charity donations, many are estate items.
Best note of the listing, "No crank - No start". 
Love to tinker with that thing, but also on the wrong coast
H.A.N. is coming up soon!
Arrange a relay move from Reno to ?
The 2018 cutom tag leads me to believe that maybe it was actually finished and on the street.
I'm fairly certain it was on the street at one time. Bidding now up to $225.00.
But still a week to go and the real bidding will happen at the last minute like every other auction.
Bidding's ended, last I saw an hour ago it was about ~$1125. Probably should have taken you up on that offer.
Thankfully tho, half finished EV projects appear on the crazy cheap all the time. One day i'll stop goofin'.
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