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Old 04-03-2014, 12:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Old 04-03-2014, 01:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Interesting, didn't know you could "part out" a car to get within the budget requirements for LeMons. Still any running harley engine seems likely to blow the budget.

Lol, weedwacker powered series "hybrid" harley included...

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That ad is hysterical! I especially liked the included pit bike:
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BONUS: You'll get a 1986 Hybrid-Davidson pit bike (aka the original motor-donor). It's currently sporting a weedwacker motor that turns a lucas alternator via chain drive, which goes through some electrical do-dads to charge some batteries which in turn power an electric motor. Said electric motor then goes through a jack-shaft arrangement to drive the rear wheel of the motorcycle. "Ran when parked".

It's still parked.

Mostly because it won't run no more.
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Hilarious. But actually, a 2-cylinder engine in a Prius would make some sense, since it would have less internal frictions than a 4-banger

Even me, a Prius hater, would actually like to do a test-drive on that

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