The idea to make a cross-country passenger car came to me at the beginning of 2004, when the opportunity arose to purchase a “killed” Mitsubishi-Pajero all-terrain vehicle – only the body remained suitable for use. The power unit, transmission and chassis were in such poor condition that it was not economically feasible to restore them Read more…
Today is a story about the buggy-350, created in the auto design laboratory of the city of Kharkov under the leadership of V. L. Taranukha. According to the results of our competition for 1975, this machine is the best in its class, and its creators were awarded a diploma from the Modeler-Constructor magazine. Valery Leonidovich Read more…
The term velomobile, which summarizes all wheeled vehicles with muscular traction, has been used in our country since the mid-1970s. M-K spoke about the Vita velomobile of Kharkov resident Yu. Stebchenko, as the first sign of an emerging type of vehicles, back in issue No. 7 for 1976. In the rest of the world, only Read more…
If you manage to build such a mini-sailboat, you will immediately become the owner of a whole “fleet”! In fact: the boat of the proposed design, called “Hummingbird” by the author for its diminutiveness, as a result of a very simple conversion can become a dinghy, a windsurfer, and a rowing boat. Moreover, it will Read more…
“I intend to build a car for widespread use. It will be large enough to fit an entire family, but small enough for one person to operate it. It will be made of the best material and constructed using the simplest methods possible in modern technology. Despite this, its price will be so low that Read more…
A thrifty owner, especially a rural resident, does not have too much household equipment. So I got another mini tractor. As usual – homemade (you can see about my previous work in “M-K” No. 1-2023 ). This time, in addition to functionality, increased attention was paid to aesthetics and ergonomics. I wanted to get not Read more…
Last summer, the head of the aviation club of the Vnukovo House of Culture (Moscow), amateur pilot Andrei Chernikov, demonstrated quite complex aerobatic maneuvers over the Razdolye airfield in the Vladimir region on a single-seat biplane he designed and built with his own hands. The aircraft does not yet have an airworthiness certificate due to Read more…
In rural life there are many labor-intensive jobs that nevertheless need to be done quickly, for example: in the spring – sowing, in the summer – haymaking, harvesting – in the fall and, finally, snow – in the winter. When performing them, if there are no numerous assistants, you cannot do without means of mechanization. Read more…
Automotive design is a long-time passion of Krasnoyarsk resident Vladimir Aleksandrovich Gassan. Readers interested in homemade cars will probably remember both “ Mini-Valga ” and “ Buggy-350 ”… And here is another, just completed work. But unlike the previous ones, where V. A. Gassan was both a developer and a builder of cars, here he Read more…
Several years ago, our family purchased a summer cottage that had not been cultivated for a long time. An attempt to dig it up by hand was unsuccessful and we were forced to hire people who plowed our site with a walk-behind tractor. They paid a decent amount for this. And then I thought that Read more…
