Emile Leray (born 23 August 1949) is a French electrician who is most noteworthy for transforming a car into a motorcycle while stranded in the Sahara desert in 1993.
Achievements Leray built a desert motorcycle out of the parts of a broken-down Citroën 2CV in 1993, while on a solo trip in Morocco. His car broke down near the coastal town of Tantan, Morocco, when he accidentally hit a rock, which damaged his car's chassis. Per Leray's account, he was stranded about from Tantan, with only enough food and water to last ten days. To survive, Leray used the shell of the 2CV as a shelter and built a motorcycle from the engine chassis. Twelve days after the accident, he was able to drive it to Tantan. His converted 2CV and Moroccan traffic ticket (for having an automobile license plate on a motorcycle) are on display at the Midwest Dream Car Collection in Manhattan, Kansas.Emile Leray Citroën 2CV Bike An unsuccessful attempt to replicate the motorcycle was made on a 2015 episode of MythBusters, where Adam and Jamie concluded that the vehicle was unstable and hard to control.
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