Bike-engined hill climb cars are a bit of a European specialty with a number of companies like Wolf, Norma, and Osella producing what are essentially miniature Le Mans prototypes. With featherweight bodies and components under the driver, throwing a slightly tuned sportbike motor and a sequential gearbox behind it is more than enough to send any number of cars tearing over race tracks in time trial events or ripping up European hill climbs. One of the more obscure adaptations came from a small run of cars built by Spain’s Bango Racing Cars (BRC), who made a rare closed-top hill-climber with a bike engine behind the driver. Several BRC cars, like Jonathan Alvarez Arias’ BRC CM05 EVO, still run hill climbs like the recent Subido al Fito in Spain with a fantastic noise.

Details are a bit hard to come by on the odd-looking BRC chassis, but it seems as though they weigh in at around 1,000 pounds without a driver and most are powered by a warmed-over Suzuki GSXR1000 engine. The liter-bike fans will know that engine is easily good for 160 horsepower, which in theory would propel a half-ton sports car at a pretty decent clip. As it turns out, that’s exactly what the bike motor will do, although while Alvarez rips up the Al Fito course through the Spanish mountain villas at a frenetic pace, the car seems to drive pretty dang nicely. We’ll take one in blue, pleas.