Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car
I understand why people are calling 'hoax' on it, but it is really possible, especially given that area of Morocco has an average temp of about 18C according to the internet. If he built himself a shade from the shell as the first stage he'd be pretty good for surviving the aspects of dehydration.<p>Plus anyone who's ever been near a 2CV know you could probably drill through the metal with a pencil if you tried hard enough.<p>Edit: some more info on why it's possible.<p>- 2CV weighs roughly 560kg, they were built to save weight all round so the body panels, frame work and mechanical components were built 'light' (read thin, no carbon fibre here).<p>- The engine will have been heavy, but it's a relatively small simple block, it won't have been easy but "give me a fulcrum and I will move the world". It's doable, I'm pretty sure if I bug the petrol heads I know I'll find one who's done it on something similar or tell me how it's done. Edit: brohee (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008052" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008052</a>) posts that the engine is 66kg, which isn't super ridiculously heavy. Find someone who's around that weight and see if you can pick them up.<p>- If you're going on a desert holiday, taking water is a smart idea. 14 days water would be about 8/9 gallons for a man weighing 12 stone (I think, unless the 'recommended minimum water per day' calculation I found is useless). That  seems like a lot, it's about 4 of the jugs used on water coolers, so he might have rationed it out and had less.<p>To round it off for you naysayers: <a href="http://citcity.citroen1.info/2CV/water.htm" rel="nofollow">http://citcity.citroen1.info/2CV/water.htm</a> if multiple people can make boats out of them to race about a local lake there's every possibility someone could figure out how to make a bike.<p>(and yes, I'm locked into a 2CV research spiral now)