photo: L.A. Johnson
I got out of Calgary at sunrise on January 20,’14, the morning after the Honour The Treaties Tour’s final performance. That tour was a real important event on the LincVolt storyline. One we’ll get to in due time.
It turned out to be almost 2 years after Calgary before I saw Lincvolt again. She looked great. Everything The Driver had ever imagined and then some. Her systems were way more dialed in and she was getting somewhere in the neighbourhood of 60 mile per gallon equivalency. An electric 1959 Lincoln Continental 21st century, ‘the no roadside refueling dream’ come true. She was approaching 50,000 clean green open road miles driven when I saw her again. It was November ’15 and we were driving up the Pacific Coast Highway.
Somewhere on the PCH, 11/15 – photo: unknown
By that time we were well into editing the film that The Driver started with Larry Johnson in 2007. A film documenting the journey they took on the road to rebuilding LincVolt and Repowering The American Dream. A journey that spanned nearly a decade.
There was a lot of footage; hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours. We set up shop at the Shakey Pictures North Headquarters, pictured here, and started to piece the story together. It took nearly a year just to look at the footage.
Shakey Pictures North HQ – photo: Dave Toms
Now the film that The Driver and Larry set out to make back in ’07 has become an episodic documentary series and Volume 1 is nearing completion. The LincVolt Years is fast approaching the ready-to-share moment.
We’ll let you know where you can watch as soon as we know. In the meantime we’ll select some of our favourite LincVolt Team out-takes and stream them. As this evolves I’ll check in now and again to share some stories from the edit suite.
It’s quite a trip.
Onward.
the passenger