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HAWG HEAVEN; TWO TAKES ON A SIMPLE IDEA: A HARLEY-POWERED CAR.(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
While the rumbling hot rod waits at a stoplight in Santa Monica, California, a few passersby give a smile. Nice car, they're thinking. Then they hear the engine. Hey, that ain't no small-block; that sounds like, what the!?!
Two weeks later in an entirely different but just as extraordinary car, while cruising through east Orange County past million-dollar homes, we get the same thing: Everyone notices the exotic two-seater that looks like an entry from the Sports Prototype world championship, but then they listen to the engine. What the?!?
In both cases the reaction is the same: That sounds like a Harley-Davidson!
It's an idea that seems so simple you have to wonder why we haven't heard it before-put the ubiquitous and popular Harley V-Twin into a car.
Well, here are two projects that did just that, each as far apart in concept and execution as can be. One took a V2 and put it in a fiberglass hot rod. The other took two V2s and put them side by side in a svelte carbon fiber body that looks ready for IMSA. The teams are cooperating on getting the drivetrain bugs out and their cars on the road. After several years both are almost finished.
The time has come for the Hot Rod Hawg.
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Source: HighBeam Research, HAWG HEAVEN; TWO TAKES ON A SIMPLE IDEA: A HARLEY-POWERED CAR.(News)