Hooniverse Asks- What's The Most Amazing Bike-Engined Car?

There’s a thin line between motorcycles and cars. Both offer personal transportation, both require a certain skill to master, and each is powered by some form of on-board propulsion device, typically an internal combustion engine. Of course what does differentiate them is that one tends to want to fall over when you come to a stop.

That advantage offered by four wheeled vehicles, those colloquially known as cars and or trucks, over motorcycles doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been some interbreeding that has taken place over the years. There have been a number of automotive engined motorcycles, including a VW boxer-powered bike that used to prowl my neighborhood and was owned by a professor at the local community college.

We’re not interested in those today. Instead, we want to talk about the reverse- cars powered by motorcycle engines. Given some thought, you’ll perhaps be surprised at just how many of them there are. My vote for the weirdest and most disappointing was the BMW twin-powered Dale of the ’70s, which proved to be as phony as its creator, Liz Carmichael’s womanhood.  That was an almost ran of a motorcycle engined automobile, but there are still plenty of real contenders from which to choose. Which one do you think is the most awesome?

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