1st recycle yard visit

We combined a few trips together this weekend.  My wife needed to be in Columbus Ohio so I drove her to Columbus, then Friday morning stopped in at Wirthman Bros., Inc. auto recycle yard to get many small plastic pieces to replace the parts damaged by previous owners.  Then I drove to Michigan Friday afternoon to pick up the motor, DMOC and many other EV parts pictured on the "Bulk parts find..." page. A visit to a recycle yard Saturday yielded nothing, I had called them from my home in Illinois earlier in the week to see if they had any cars that matched mine and was told they had several.  Upon arrival they did not know the difference between a VW BUG and a VW GOLF.  All the parts they pulled for me were from a Bug, very disappointing.  The yard actually had one Golf that was stripped clean and ready for the crusher.

From the Wirthman yard I was able to retrieve:

A radio, the local VW dealer confirmed my receipt from the yard and gave me the code at no charge.



A handful of fuses and relays, this one is or the DRL's



Plastic clips, bumpers, and seals for the hood



I got several locks so we can take the wafers out of several to get the proper combination to match the current keys we have.



Four fender well liners


Several dashboard switches to give control options for the EV.  Note the heated seat roll switches, we do not have heated seats, but there are 6 positions on each switch.  What do we want to use them for? Options considered so far:
1.  Since there will be no clutch, we could have the motor match gear speed by selecting the gear we wanted.
2.  We could use it to change the computer output display in the dash, how many outputs do we need?  Using both of them we can get 36 outputs.
3.  We could set regen values 0-5
4.  We could set max torque values
5  ??? You tell me, what do we want to be able to do on the EV?
6.  It also occurred to us that we could use the center hazard button to engage the hazards at the same time as dropping the 12v to the inverter as the E-stop.  Good idea, bad idea?



The headlight switch including the foglight option




I stopped to see another friend along the trip and we spent some time in his garage.


There was another HUGE black car of this vintage but is was several feet longer and not convertible..

Sorry, there were another 4 that I spent too much time looking and forgot to get a picture.  One was HUGE and black from the early 50's is my guess.