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Snaefell Puts The “Car” In Sidecar

If you’re going to call it a sidecar, might as well use a real car in there, right? That’s exactly what Francois Knorreck did with the Snaefell, a motorcycle with an attached car on the side.
Quite possibly the oddest thing you can hope to see on the road, the vehicle combines a triple-engine 1000cc Laverda motorcycle with various parts from a Volkswagen GTI, an Audi 80 and a Citroen Xantia. Instead of just adding a bridge to connect the motorcycle to the car chassis, though, Knorreck decided to fashion it into a singular vehicle, where the motorcycle portion almost blends in seamlessly with the car. As such, the Snaefell is as much a “motorcycle-car” as it is a bike with a sidecar, sporting a very neatly crafted single-body finish.
The creation took a whooping ten years to finish and cost around $20,000 to complete. Looking at the resulting [...]