You can save your prized Aston Martin DB6, Porsche 911 or Mustang from the museum of combustion engine history. Or your Fiat 500 and Renault Clio, for that matter.

That's the message from a growing cohort of European and American startups seeking to carve out roles in the auto transition by converting the roaring dinosaurs of the fossil-fuel age into clean electric vehicles (EVs).

At the high end, companies like Britain's Lunaz sell a "remanufactured" Aston Martin DB6 for £1 million ($1.3 million), or Dutch firm Voitures Extravert, which sells a re-engineered 1960s Porsche 911 for €300,000 ($337,000).