MAD BOXER
“THE BIKE’S HUGE POWER IS TEMPERED A LITTLE BY THE WIND-UP OF THE TORQUE CONVERTOR AND AUTO GEARBOX”
MOST motorcycles built around car engines, from the VW-powered Amazonas to the V8 Chevy Boss Hog, are nearly as big as the cars they came from, which kind of defeats the purpose. Not so this astounding Subaru-powered custom from New Zealand’s North Island, with dimensions (apart from width) no bigger than a Harley. Even more amazing, it’s turbocharged and 100 per cent street legal.
“It all started off as a bit of a challenge from my mate Harry in Aussie,” builder Marcel van Hooijdonk says. “He’d come across an artist’s impression off
