Back in the 1970s, the CitiCar was a pretty unique little EV. I mean, it has a physical shape and presence that stand out, seemingly no matter what decade you're viewing it in. It had humble aspirations as an EV, but this one is now an absolute drag strip monster thanks to Vasily's mile-long list of modifications.
His opening premise sounds kind of simple: Stuff a Hayabusa engine in the back of this thing and see what happens.
Of course, since he's no stranger to building things himself, and has the welding and machining knowledge and skills to make such feats practical, he went into this project knowing full well that he'd need to do a whole lot of work to get that Hayabusa-plus-Citicar vision to work.