Neil Young’s Engine Bay Is…

…empty! I grabbed my favorite little local rag this morning to find one of my favorite types of pics above the fold – the "standing in the empty engine bay" shot – featuring Young standing in the empty engine bay of his 1959 Lincoln. He’s working with UQM Technologies and H-Line Conversions to put a "bio-hydro-electric" series hybrid drivetrain in what is pretty much America’s largest production car ever. The 1959 Continental Mark IV is a whopping nineteen and a half feet long, keeping it out of countless garages built in the 80s and 90s. The Linc Volt, as Young is calling it, will debut in a movie Young is expecting to start shooting in April. The bioDiesel-fired ICE from H-line will drive a 200bhp/480ft-lb UQM electric motor that will supply the power to the transmission. Conversion has already started, and H-Line have a couple of pictures of Young up on their website (http://www.hlineconversion.com) as the work was getting started. Young follows in the alternative-fuel footsteps of rocker Willie Nelson, who runs his entire road crew on bioDiesel.