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World’s Largest Motorcycle & Smallest Car Set Guinness Record
Guinness has come out with the 2014 edition of its world records book. Among the thousand of strange and fascinating records mentioned in the book are these two. One is the world's largest functional motorcycle and the other is the world's smallest road legal car.
World's Largest Bike
The bike, which is an oversized custom cruiser, is the work of Italian product designer Fabio Reggiani. It took Reggiani and his team of eight seven months to finish building the ‘monster' bike.
The bike has been fitted with a 280 HP 5.7 liter V8 engine, which means it can actually be driven. It comes with three forward and one reverse gear. Check the gallery below for the bike's dimensions and video.
World's Smallest Road Legal Car
On the other end is Austin Coulson's car from Texas. A custom car builder by profession, the choice was a simple one to make for Coulson. The car, which comes with a vanity licence plate ‘IM BIG' and wears a custom paint job that was based on war livery worn by the U.S. P-51 Mustang military aircraft.
To make it road legal Coulson had to add a windshield made from federally approved safety glass, a functional windshield, seat belts, indicator lamps and a horn. Learn more about world's smallest car in the Guinness video in the gallery below.
The bike stands huge at 16 feet 8.76 inches tall, 394.88 inches long and 98 inches wide. It tips the scale at half a ton.
The previous record holder, Monster Cycle, measured 11 feet and 3 inches tall and 243.6 inches long, but had a larger 8.2 liter V8 engine.
The car measure just 25 inches high, 2 feet, 1.75 inches wide and 4 feet, 1.75 inches long. Note the vanity licence plate "IM BIG".
"I've always wanted to have a Guinness World Records [title] for something and automotive was always my favorite," said Coulson "So I went home and looked up this current world record and thought, 'I could do that.'"
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