Just digging around through old stuff today and remembered the Honda N600 - the aircooled twin-cylinder Mini-like car. I knew three guys back in the day who autocrossed them successfully, with fat tires, flares, slicks and a cam, and wondered if anyone is runing one these days. Anyone know of any swaps? They were seriously fun little boxes, but I imagine they have mostly rusted away - the sheet metal was so thin they would dent from being looked at, but they were certainly light.
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Jan. 3, 2010 12:22 p.m. jgp1843 HalfDork
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Jan. 3, 2010 12:35 p.m. mtn SuperDork
Wasn't there someone on this board or in the magazine who found one and completely fabricated a new shell for it?
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Jan. 3, 2010 1:46 p.m. mel_horn Dork
There's a coupe version in the showroom of the Honda dealer in Hanover PA.
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Jan. 3, 2010 1:47 p.m. tuna55 Reader
mtn wrote:
Wasn't there someone on this board or in the magazine who found one and completely fabricated a new shell for it?
If so, then I need one.
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Jan. 3, 2010 1:59 p.m. ReverendDexter Dork
mtn wrote:
Wasn't there someone on this board or in the magazine who found one and completely fabricated a new shell for it?
Are you thinking of the carbon fiber one with the motorcycle engine in the passenger seat? I'm pretty sure that was a one-off, not something the guy was looking at mass-producing.
I could be very wrong, though...
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Jan. 3, 2010 3:06 p.m. 4cylndrfury Dork
The carbon fiberhyabusa creation was a stab at one of the high buck autox classes IIRC. He was elbow deep into sorting the nearly completed car when they changed the classing rules and made a bunch of his design obsolete, so it never saw track time in competition. I was very curious to see how it would perform.
I believe it was featured in the same issue as the 72 celica/S2k hybrid.
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Jan. 3, 2010 3:09 p.m. Woody SuperDork
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Jan. 3, 2010 6:43 p.m. Datsun1500 Dork
mel_horn wrote:
There's a coupe version in the showroom of the Honda dealer in Hanover PA.
And it is still a new car... never titled.
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Jan. 3, 2010 7:00 p.m. SkinnyG Reader
Lookie here: Video footage of the CF Z600: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k--m3IsbwXw
