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.
Wasn't there someone on this board or in the magazine who found one and completely fabricated a new shell for it?
There's a coupe version in the showroom of the Honda dealer in Hanover PA.
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.
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...
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.
Lookie here: Video footage of the CF Z600: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k--m3IsbwXw
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