Here’s what has to be a one-of-a-kind. A 1998 Honda Valkyrie motorcycle converted into a 3-wheel tryke that looks like a 1969 Chevy Camaro (from the front). We’d love to know how and why this was done, but – unfortunately – it’s an unfinished project looking for a new benefactor. So, the details of this metamorphosis will require you to contact the seller here on Facebook Marketplace. Located in Acton, California, this interesting mode of transport is being offered at $9,100 OBO (we assume).
The 1969 Chevy Camaro was a popular pony car from the third and last year of the auto’s first generation. Nearly 250,000 copies were built due to a 15-month production run in advance of an all-new Camaro in 1970. It was the best-looking of the trio (IMO), which might be why it was selected for emulation with this tryke. The seller is clear in pointing out this vehicle was never a Camaro, but some of the body parts are.
Registered as a motorcycle, this tryke uses a front end and doors crafted out of fiberglass, so the amount of real Camaro sheet metal is limited. The panels are said to have been new when the project began, though we don’t know when that was. At the heart of the tryke is a Honda Valkyrie from 1998 that has 80,000 miles on it. The carburetors are said to need rebuilding, likely gummed up from sitting. The front suspension is from a Volkswagen and disc brakes are in place.
We know nothing about the interior other than it’s black in color. Wearing grey primer now, the body could be painted and/or decorated anyway you wanted. The seller says he/she has too many projects and this one has been going nowhere. It’s also been up for sale for several months, so just the right buyer hasn’t been found yet for this Camarotryke. Could that be you? Thanks for the crazy tip, MisterLou!
Tail lights look nice.
Definitely proves that alcohol and car building don’t mix!!!
I have to wonder what a `69 Camaro ever did to deserve treatment like this.
WAY too much spare time …
More fitting if used as one of those wind-up toys that you aim at a wall and when it hits, all the parts go flying off.
Looks like something i would drive
Wrong just flat out wrong!!!!
Time to cue up
“Too much time on my hands”
Styx 🥁 🎹 🤖
Let’s see, I’ve got a ’69 Camaro with a destroyed back end, and a Honda Valkyrie rotting in the back yard. What can I do with those…
Um… Why…? Just Why?
The ad says this was built from scratch, not from a real Camaro.
Steve R
What in the sam hill !!!
Finally a pre-1970 Camaro i like :D
Where is the Wail Tail?
There were some maros with that out of Detoilet!
“I’ve just got too many projects!” Translation: “I’ve taken this pig as far as I want to.”
I don’t know which is worst, the project itself or the price he want for this nightmare
I wonder what his other projects are?
My thoughts too. I personally would like to see this up close. On a Mopar forum I met a guy that some people scoffed at his projects but he did some wild stuff and very well executed. Some were a 1970 Superbird convertible, a 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T wagon (yes, a wagon) and a 4×4 General Lee among other projects.
Looks like a “Bad Chad” creation.
WOW at least it was never a real car almost makes me want to finish it just to get the reaction from people at car shows but I just don’t have that kind of energy
To each his own, but I wouldn’t touch that thing with a ten foot pole !
Well, okay then… Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is the only thing that I can say… and I don’t generally swear. GLWTS!
Slow day?
I can usually think of something nice to say about any vehicle or project.
I just jammed pencils into both eyes. Totally worth it.
WTF! I am completely baffled by this atrocity for two reasons: first, why in the name of all that is sacred would someone do this? second, who told him or her that this was the price they should shoot for? To be completely honest, I would actually pay someone to haul this thing off.
You’d have to!
Really weird.
???? What kind of contraption is that supposed to be ????
Hang me up by toes if you want, but I actually like this… Kind of. I think it is definitely interesting. If It was actually made from a real Camaro, I would be screaming sacrilege, but since it is custom, maybe with some repo panels or parts car, I’m ok with it. I applaud the creativity of the maker. It takes a lot of thought and effort to be able to do something like this and actually get it this far in the build process. If you have ever restored a car, you know how hard it is to keep going when you get in a rough spot, and I bet that this project has, with it being this far completed. Remember, some of the best hot rodders had some of the most wild ideas. That’s the idea of hot rodding in the first place, to make something unique and different. It doesn’t always have to go fast to be a hot rod, that’s only half of the equation, it has to look cool too. That’s why we give resto mods a different category from hot rods. My humble opinion.
And you think that this thing looks “cool”?
And you think that this thing looks “cool”?
And you think that this thing looks “cool”?
Why?
Why?
I like Honda Valkryes…not the ones that look like they’re being buggered by half of a Camaro.
My dead uncle is flopping over in his dirty room.
As bad as it looks, it still looks better than a 74′ Mustang.
needs more cowbell.
if sectioned L / R ie narrowed as well as doved frnt (not just rear)
AND
using the HEAVIEST road commander type hwy bike
I could see it.
Also a lill too much of the ‘bike basis’ seen in back…
I mean da guy hada idea, just needs a lill help w/the execution~
Well, if he would have started with the Honda trike and made the front narrow and the ass end wide instead and the reverse it would have been OK..maybe.
Honestly, I think it is bass-ackwards!
Thats my opinion and I’m sticking to it.
All from me.
And I actually thought that Subaru Brat thingamajig a few weeks ago was weird…
I’m not gonna buy it, but think it’s pretty interesting. I figured it was an old race car body that all the goodies were stripped out of. I visualize it painted an unsuspecting light blue or green with poverty caps up front and 250 badges on the fenders. And it’ll sound nice with the Valkyrie six.
Looks like a deathtrap to me. In which states would this thing even be legal (assuming you could get to run)?
Surely you jest!
Somebody has too much money and too much time.
Lmao!!! I’m thinking this person is a artist and not a mechanic. Got this far and said well my job is done. After all isn’t art supposed to get ppl talking? This abomination sure got us all talking! Peace!
I love the creativity, but I wonder how it would handle. The CanAm 3 wheeler handles better than any trike, but the front wheels actually lean in turns, but the Polaris Slingshot don’t. I think. I doubt that these do.
gotta love weirdoes that would build something like this, I mean that sincerely.
Hi david,..it’s weird-o’s..get with it man o.
All fun. Do you remember Big Daddy Ed Roth?
Trust me, Ed Roth would have never been associated with something like this. This thing belongs in a recycling yard, Ed Roth built automotive art.
Well, hell oldrodder, didn’t mean to use his name in vain.
Was only referring to the radical design of this builders quite unorthodox watchamakecallit.
That’s all..
Put under the category- Coming to a junkyard near you “
Just when you thought you’d seen it all, BF slaps you up along side your head with this.
I love BF. You guys and gals keep us on our toes and it’s always a surprise.
As to this… after I choked on my coffee and said “what the…” I started laughing and read all the comments. You guys are hilarious and said all I wanted to say.
Thank you Russ for going out on a limb and showing us the unusual. It was fun.
Plain and stupid…it’s going the wrong way.