Before we start talking about the machine, let’s introduce its creator and author of the article, Yuri Ivanovich Algebraistov. His entire adult life is connected with technology, and most of it with home-made automobile construction – “Samavto”, as this movement is popularly called. He and his car in many ways personify this movement and have Read more…
When the little car was pulled out into the yard, someone said in disappointment: “What a little baby we have!” And indeed, while the car was standing in the laboratory of the Young Motorist Club, its dimensions seemed quite acceptable, but on the street… Meanwhile, the design of the microcar was meticulously drawn out and Read more…
The idea to create a mechanical four-wheeled assistant came after several years of cultivating a summer cottage with a homemade walk-behind tractor, which turned out to be very heavy and difficult to control and was quite exhausting during the agricultural work season. And on top of that, I wanted to have a universal machine that Read more…
Starting the story about a home-made car, I note that before that I had several factory production cars: “Zaporozhets”, and “Moskvich”, and “Zhiguli”, and “Niva” – each at one time. But on occasion, quite inexpensively, I bought a UAZ-469 car. Frankly, I’ve been eyeing the UAZ for a long time: an all-terrain vehicle like a Read more…
The idea of making motorcycle sarts, and such that they could be ridden on loose snow, took possession of me a long time ago, about fifteen years ago. But I was in no hurry to get to work; I carefully thought about how I would like my snowmobile to look. So gradually a constructive scheme Read more…
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…
