Someone once looked at a 1997-2003 Chevy Malibu and said, “You know, that thing would be awesome as a propulsion unit for my motorcycle!” That person actually followed through with the plan and created something that looks like it escaped from the Island of Dr. Moreau, maintenance division. If you aren’t familiar with the good Dr. Moreau, he was a fictional character in an H.G Wells novel that lived on a remote island and created bizarre animal/human creatures. Basically this is a mechanical version of something you’d read about in the book.
Is it wrong to assume that the thing is probably pretty fast? Eliminating all the unnecessary weight of the car and hanging a couple hundred pounds of tubing off the front of the Malibu would free up some serious umph from the V6, right? Having never driven a motorized trike of any kind, we’re guessing that “high speed” cornering is nil because that little front tire would seemingly get pushed along by the much heavier rear end of the craft if someone tried to really zip through the corners.
What the hell are we doing trying to actually figure this monster out. Just look at it. From the Malibu shifter to the hood pins, it is all so wrong that in some ways it is right. We love the fact that the passenger sits about half way up the hood and the classy fire is another touch that just needs to be there for this pile of weird to be “right”.
I’ve got to thank my high school gearhead pal Dave Keenan for sending along these images that he shot with his family recently. Dave and I worked, laughed, horsed around, and raised the rabble at the same gas station during high school. Thankfully neither of us has mentally advanced much past those days. I love the fact that he thought of us when he saw this thing!
Scroll down to see this unholy union between a Chevy Malibu and a motorcycle – The Chevy Malibu trike
I guess the passenger can communicate with the driver by pounding on either side of the hood. Surprised there not BIG dents!
gee wow how about no? again, why o why don’t people stop, take a step back and have a friggin look at the unholy mess they’ve made? actually the car headlights still being there annoys me almost more than the flames….and on those flames…. real flames on the back…but cartoony decal ones on the bike? bleeeaughh…
man that sucker is long. Trikes do okay with a differential, it’s when they’ve got a spool that everything goes crazy.
I’m so f*ing confused by it, I think I like it, ‘cept the flamer job. That’s gotta go… then, HOV lane, here I come!
and the wing has to go. I thought that was a given, but I will say it for the record. When it gets repainted, lose the wing… and any stickers and damn sure anything that says Harley antyhing on it, or live to ride lawyer chrome, and put the full size Vetter fairing windshield back on it – the one with the two vents built in.
plasti dip the whole thing come to think of it.
another though – might as well put a sleeper in the back … use a popup camper from the sixties, tiny camper. It doesn’t need to be big, you won’t be able to get any sane female to ride with you anyway.
Kill it. Kill it before it multiplies…
This is why you don’t use drugs kids.
We have a modern cadlilac one around here. It’s just as fugly. I see it often and laugh. But then too the guy is having a hell of a time with it……
Arrrrrgh – Well this is what happens when you combine a morbid fascination with the Devil’s brand and a large intake of mind-ripping drugs – surely no sane straight person would have created this abomination!
It looks like some weird perverted automotive sado-masochistic sex act gone wrong! Half a car having oral sex with a motorcycle!
Oh hold on I took some really strong acid a while ago and its all just a horrible hallucination – and why is that tree staring at me – Moooooooooooom!
Gubbbbble gubbbbbble eeeeeeeh!