I still have my first car, a 1974 standard VW Beetle. It drives fine (because they're so damn simple), but definitely needs a full facelift and clean up one day.

I feel like I'm going to go in the direction of an EV kit when that day comes. I don't need more than 75-100mi range, just want to have a really simple little weekend cruiser.

There's cheap kits like this: https://electrek.co/2023/07/20/this-2000-kit-from-china-will...

Then you just have to spend like $20k on batteries from a wrecked tesla or something.