Published on 25 November 2023
Hard to go past Flying Feather as an evocative name. The brainchild of Yutaka Katayama who was with Nissan at the time, he left them to develop this contraption in 1954. Best described as two motorbikes bolted together with a 360 V-Twin in the rear and flimsy chassis sprung by transverse leaf springs. After 200 sold at a loss, Mr K went back to Nissan and headed up the US operation. Apparently the father of the 240Z...
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