Escaped an African Desert by Turning His Broken-Down Car Into a Motorbike

[rodrigoscs]

Great Story!!
https://factsc.com/emile-leray/

[gbags]

Brilliant

[halfpint]

I think you might find it was a load of bollocks made up for the paper .....

[SteveR]

Wonderful...

[Nico-D]

Yes, I call bullshit on that too. Only 10 km from a village yet spends 12 days 'making' this contraption...bollox !!

[Seminole]

Smells like bovine excrement to me too

[ChasF]

I think you might find it was a load of bollocks made up for the paper .....

Sadly so. But just goes to show that if you set off in a car you'd have plenty of bits and two more wheels than you need to get you home.

[halfpint]

he was a member of the A team, made a welder from the windscreen and the sun , BA and face hid in the dunes. but they feckked off when they saw him in his panties!!

[fraserdog]

mythbusters did it with a 2cv,there's a youtube vid of it.

[ollydog]

think it would make a good short film though, guy martin as the french chap and 15 gallon of tea
steve