autocycle.. Ohhh The horror

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cto/4508596858.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/cto/4508596858.html said: You can choose an AUTOCYCLE from my inventory (pics show some in progress) or I can customize YOUR front wheel drive car into a fully street legal, better handling, more MPG and a MORE FUN TO DRIVE "tri-mobile" with the front of an AUTOmobile and the rear of a motorCYCLE !!

Yes. Pillow block bearings hold on the rear swing arm. Awesome.

wait a minute... better handling?

This seems exactly like something I should build!

Except I think I'll use the front of a rusty old Chevy 4x4 and the back of a Harley just to piss off and confuse people.

I'm unable to come up with a reason why these exist... Do it once to win a Concours d'Lemons, sure, but to do it twice smacks of mental unbalance. Way too much work went into these to be straight up trolling.

They exist because people all over the world have questionable taste and no understanding of physics.

I like how the taillights on the red one face sideways. It's red because redneck

Is that even street legal. I wonder as there is no place for plate.

FINALLY. A use for a Del Sol.

Things should get pretty interesting when stress becomes strain.

So do you need a motorcycle license for it?

Done properly, this lets you get a more teardrop shape on the body, giving better mpg. There is nothing inherently wrong with the reverse trike in terms of making it handle. Though this is more along the lines of getting drunk and backhalfing your FWD car with stuff bought at tractor supply.

I'd drive it. I'd replace the pillow block bearings with something that would take an impact, but I'd drive it. I really like the re-purposed trailer tongue box. Besides, what else are you going to do with your FWD after soccer mom tags it in the rear, while texting her BFF about her latte.

In all honesty, I've seen much worse.

I could see doing it if you had a car that had been rear ended but was otherwise untouched from the doors forward

In reply to ShadowSix:

I thought Morgan's were pretty cool till I drove one.

It was awful.

But I still think Morgan does it "right". That autocycle is a hot mess.

Ojala wrote: In reply to ShadowSix: I thought Morgan's were pretty cool till I drove one. It was awful. But I still think Morgan does it "right". That autocycle is a hot mess.

Details please? I've always been fascinated by them, so I'm curious why I should never buy/build one.

You forgot the third photo.

There is a civic or crx one parked in front of his shop in google street view too.

Ojala wrote: In reply to ShadowSix: I thought Morgan's were pretty cool till I drove one. It was awful. But I still think Morgan does it "right". That autocycle is a hot mess.

who cares how it drives, just look at it!

I saw one several weeks ago in Arlington Va, apparently a well to do dad driving his little daughter to school. Very cool.

the only way I could see a Morgan being "awful" is due to a lack of power, everything manual, and skinny skinny tyres. I am sure in many ways they make a bottom feeder Hyundai accent feel like a caddy with a big block

petegossett wrote: This seems *exactly* like something I should build! Except I think I'll use the front of a rusty old Chevy 4x4 and the back of a Harley just to piss off and confuse people.

I bet you could sell them

In reply to mad_machine:

Exactamundo there Fonzarelli!

Rattly, clunky, slow, hard AND flimsy, and drove terrible on top of that. But lord knows they LOOK good. I was peeling off women.

In reply to Flight Service:

With a front locker it would certainly be "entertaining" to drive…off-road.