Volkswagen six wheeler Bus – 2011 Amen Motorcycles

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Amen Motorcycles is a small company that builds custom motorcycles on the one hand and that forms the other mechanics, Rogersville Tennessee.

In 2011 they had a construction order from a Volkswagen Microbus 1957, but the & rsquo; an apprentice at the time managed to destroy the car. Consequently, l & rsquo; team had decided to & rsquo; to build another 6 wheels from scratch, using only a few pieces of the original.

The project was presented in the show "What Would Mike Do?» de Fox Sport South, Mike Brown, un fou de tuning custom, which initiated many world at the time.

It was a bold project. The particular dimensions of the combi allowed it to accommodate a custom motorcycle dragster kind in the rear, which thus became the engine of the VW.

The bike could be withdrawn at any time of the VW and used as normal, while the body gutted the bus waiting on the side of the road up & rsquo; that your biker fantasies are met.

Apparently this is Perry Barndt (Pro-Stuntman and producer of Fear Factor) who came initiate the VW bus project for Fox Sports.

This bus is the first such vehicle because it contains the first time a single powertrain for two separate vehicles.

Drawn on computer CAD, it was entirely handmade, the 10 guy from the Tennessee Technology School who built the Combi has lost several kilos in the case, so there was work.

According Amen, the show has not reimbursed the expenses incurred and lost about 55.000 $…
In 2012 they tried to revive the project with the goal of driving the VW 19 feet on Myrtle Beach in South Carolina, but the money to invest, in particular to improve the practically nonexistent suspension system were too high and the project was finally abandoned.

Le Volkswagen bus 6 wheels took place in the course of Amen Motorcycles room and did not move in.

The classroom recently at Amen Motorcycles

 

Marc

Founder of mm2 France, oto6, then from Sixmania. The 6 wheels and more have always been a passion for me. It started in 1980 thanks to a certain Christian de Léotard, you know ?

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