Motorcycle-powered cars, scrap or store

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Hi friends, hope you had a lovely start to the month!

Some of you have indicated that the Monday’s format may be getting old.

To be fair, it has been 8 weeks.

I’m adding a poll below so you can vote if we should axe it soon.

And just be honest, you won’t hurt my feelings.

I want to create the best content for you so feedback is my oxygen.

So please vote 🙏 

I personally like the format because:

• I love quirky cars and innovation

• The cars are usually pretty rare

But at the end of the day - it’s more important what you like.
So you decide 👌 

Scrap or Store
the Engine-Swap faceoff

Results from last week are out.

Here’s what we had:

And you guys chose to keep the Cadillac and scrap the Plymouth.

And it seems like most of you have a similar taste here!
I was a bit surprised, didn’t think the battle would be so one sided 😅 

Alright, done with the recap.

Onto today’s battle

Today we have 2 cars with motorcycle engines.

That’s one of my favourite type of swaps just because of how weird the combos get 😆 

2013 AWD Nissan Leaf  
vs
 1980 Citroën 2CV

Let’s start with the Nissan Leaf, it has a fascinating story!

The car itself developed a battery issue which only allowed it 25miles of range.
#useless

The motorcycle, a Kawasaki zx10r, had a joyful life of street racing in California before it got into its final wreck.

^ The chassis was a writeoff but the engine thankfully worked.

So we now have 2 somewhat working vehicles so somebody decided to combine them into a hybrid!

Coming home late at night and don’t want to wake up the neigbhours?
You go into electric mode of the Nissan.

Finally at the twisty roads and want to have some fun?
Fire up the motorcycle engine.

Anyway, here are some photos

This thing revs to 13 000 RPM, insane (video below).

And if you want to hear the full story of the car - here’s a youtube video.

🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️ 🏍️ 

The Citroen doesn’t have a crazy story, unfortunately.

But here are some photos

And here’s what’s under the body

The thing is BONKERS! Here’s how it sounds on track

Anyway, let’s vote and see what you’re sending to the scrapyard 💀

Sooo

You’ll see the results next Monday!

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