You Need This: A home-brewed, supercharged Honda N600 pickup

While this Honda N600 pickup conversion needs some serious cosmetic TLC, according to the ad, it’s ready to be drivable.

“I have 3 complete engines/transmission’s,” the seller writes, “spare parts for nearly everything on the car including a complete parts car, tons of new extremely rare and hard to find parts.”

Total value of parts alone? More than $15,000.

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I love it!

I'll take two.

While you are in the general Denver-ish area, for $600 more you could also grab the topless Z600.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1032286511719637/

Z600 ready for restoring. No trades. Will not respond to “is it available”. Body is fully intact. (Except the roof, Honda did not make a convertible)Floor pans rusty. The rest of the body free of rust except behind rear tires. (See picture). I had it running from 2015 to 2017. Rebuilt brakes engine ran ok transmission and clutch seemed ok. Engine is noisy but ran fine. New tires in 2015. I have all the parts to rebuild it except the top. I have a windshield that’s ok. I had trouble getting into it so I took the top off. Very fun little car.

I love that little pickup!  I would seriously consider something like that, but first things first! (like finishing the other projects in order).  The little 600 would need a good engine swap, perhaps something like a Hyabusa engine or similar.  I can't imagine it would weigh very much at all.

If someone asked me to draw a pickup truck from memory I feel like this is what it would look like. This little pickup is so silly but I love the potential. 

In reply to Oapfu :

I'm not sure how much I need a topless Z600, but I'm certainly intrigued.

Is that supercharger spinning backwards mounted like that or does that old girls engine also spin backwards like early'ish hondas?

Can this fit a sheet of plywood? Just joking. Who cares. This looks fun.

In reply to Oapfu :

That’s a Z600. Way sportier than the N600. :)

I once came across a Z600 at our local pick-and-pull. Totally rotted out. The shift knob and Honda emblem are somewhere here in my office....

kevlarcorolla said:

Is that supercharger spinning backwards mounted like that or does that old girls engine also spin backwards like early'ish hondas?

 

Those AMR superchargers can spin either way. The housings are symmetrical so depending on which direction you turn the pulley, each end is either the inlet or outlet.