All posts tagged "home built"

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Weijman Auto

Weijman Auto was a three-wheel automobile created by Jo Weijman in Holland during the 1950s. It...

UrbaCar

UrbaCar

The UrbaCar, a niche, do-it-yourself (DIY) kit car design from the 1970 – the design was...

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Abdul Majeed’s home built car

A handmade 660cc car built by Abdul Majeed, a talented welder from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. An incredible...

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Nanico P50

Created by Brazilian engineer Caio Strumiello, the Nanico P50 manages to outdo its English inspiration Peel...

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3-wheeled shortened Beetle

This is a really weird homemade project created from a significantly shortened VW Beetle body. The...

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Cross

It’s hard to believe, but the base for this stylish beach off-roader was a humble microcar....

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Homemade 3-wheel car from Kazakhstan

A homemade 3-wheeled vehicle from Kazakhstan, designed and built by young technicians from the city of...

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Home built 3-wheeler by Robert E. Taylor

The homemade automobile made by the builder Robert E. Taylor of Bridgeport, Conn., is a three-wheeled...

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Junkcycle by V. G. Clements

Parts from a washing machine, wheelbarrow, bicycle and windmill were used by V. G. Clements of...

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Home Built Microcar by Juri Nesterov

In the late 1980s, Juri Nesterov of Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, completed work on a homemade microcar....

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Boro GT

The Boro GT was built by Robin Lacey and his father, Eric, who spent two years...

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EV roadster from the USSR

This compact electric roadster was created by schoolchildren at the turn of the 60s and 70s...

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Homemade microcar from Poland

This car from Poland was made from parts that were available at the time. Apparently, aluminum...

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Ergash Taishev’s Hommade Car

This home-built car with an engine from a Ural motorcycle was made in Soviet Kazakhstan in...

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Autocycle by August Paul

This autocycle began as a motorcycle that gradually evolved. Back in the day, cyclist August Paul...

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Tallinn

Designer Magofirov’s homemade Tallinn car, built in 1961. The small two-door sedan visually copied the style...

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Formula Mini Plus

Open-wheel single-seater formula racing has always been popular, especially when it’s affordable and easy to build...

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Bancroft’s Powered Wheel Chair

The August 1938 issue of “Mechanix Illustrated” magazine featured an interesting article about Charles Bancroft, a...

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Badia-Ballarin

Despite the little information that exists about this curious microcar, and the fact that in the...

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Vicente Badia Tricycle

Vicente Badia, a Barcelona motorcycle racer who among other things, at the end of the 40s...

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Arnau

During the Spanish Civil War, Joan Arnau Vicens, a Catalan from the province of Girona, worked...

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‘Veterok’

“Vetorok” homemade car was built in Novotroitsk, USSR, in 1965-1966. It had a simple tubular frame...

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“Farmer” Home-Made Mini-Truck

“Farmer” is a Soviet home-made cute mini-truck. It is based on the “Zaporozhets” car. The mini-truck...

KG Motors

KG Motors T-BOX Proto

At the Tokyo Motor Show 2022, a tiny T-BOX Proto offroader was shown, created by a...

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‘Kolobok’ Home Built Microcar

The Kolobok was created in 1985 in the USSR by Victor Gorbunov, engineer of AvtoVAZ. Victor...

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Electric Car From Kaliningrad

This funny electric car was created by engineers from Kaliningrad during the Soviet era. A two-seater...

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Peredy Zoltán single-person car and Frog small car

Peredy Zoltán was born in 1963. His father, Árpád Peredy built all kinds of structures, from...

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Lopakodo

This home built buggy was made in 1997 by an artisan from Sárospatak (Hungary) with a...

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Rear-engined Homebuilt Microcar From The USSR

During the Soviet era, a car was more of a luxury than a means of transportation....

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Lőrinc Petrovics Children’s Car

At the Budapest Industrial Fair in 1958, many children envied watching the small car in the...

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Ferenc Grósz Dwarf Car

In the late 1950s, Ferenc Grósz from Hungary and his older son, Ferenc Grósz Jr., made...

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Ferenc Grósz 3-wheeler With Volkswagen Parts

This interesting 3-wheeler was built by Ferenc Grósz, a car mechanic from Veszprém, Hungary, in the...

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Favorit by László Vörös

As early as 1947, László Vörös made a three-wheeled family motorcycle, which ran for three years....

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Home built EVs by Eduard Rudik

73-years old Ukrainian auto designer Eduard Rudik makes budget mini-electric vehicles (he created more than 20...

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Jeep by V.L. Taranukha

October 23, 1966, a parade-competition of home-built cars and motorcycles was held in Moscow. The parade...

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MEM-01

The designer and creator of this electric car is the engineer of the Rivne nuclear powerplant...

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Yudin’s Roadster From Tashkent

The tiny home built car was made by the father and son Yudins from Tashkent. They...

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Khutorok («Хуторок»)

In the early 90s, Gennady Kholodny, a garage craftsman-enthusiast from Russia, created a cool tiny truck...

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Ant Amphibious

The “Ant” is a wheel-known three-wheeled scooter with a cargo body from in the USSR. But...

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Home-built car from the USSR

A small home-made car, made in the USSR, appeared on sale in Russia. The unnamed car...

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Ussama Tuaba’s EV

Algerian engineer Ussama Tuaba, with the support of the state center for the development of renewable...

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Katam («Катам»)

Creating an amphibian is not an easy task. It is necessary to find the perfect balance...

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A pensioner from Ukraine created an electric microcar from an old piano and sofa

In the Bashtanka, Ukraine, a pensioner created an electric car from scrap materials – an old...

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Minisol

The single-seat sports electric car ‘Minisol’ was created in Zelenograd, Russia, by a group of enthusiasts...

Articles

A mechanic from India assembled a Volkswagen Beetle from photographs

Rakesh Babu, a resident of Chertal, India, assembled his own classic Volkswagen Beetle from the trash...

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Imre Vogl home built car

After WWII the Soviets prohibited the East-European countries to produce passenger cars. In 1953 Hungary started...

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Vellák

József Vellák from Nagykanizsa learned the locksmith’s profession in 1919 in the locksmith shop of György...

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Endre Surányi dwarf cars

Everlasting, bohemian, versatile – Endre Surányi (1913-1996), who was a “garage master of Rákosi” and a...

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Simon Ernő home-built microcar

Ernő Simon was born in St. Petersburg in 1924. As a young assistant he worked at...

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Home built roadster from Siberia

This tiny home-made car was made in Siberia. It was created in 1971. According to the...

Berkeley

Berkeley Bandini

A Berkeley enthusiast called Andy Argyle started offering replacement chassis, panels and bodyshells for Berkeley cars...

Automite

Automite

The Automite (by Masterworks of Long Green, Maryland) was a fully-enclosed single-seater microcar with uncompromisingly flat body...

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Losenok («Лосёнок»)

This home-made car can be called one of the most original ever built on the components...

Takayama

Takayama Micro Freedom

At the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show, Takayama Cars introduced the “kitchen on wheels” called the Micro...

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Six-wheeled home-made microcar from the USSR

This six-wheeled home-made microcar was made in the USSR in the late 70s. The engine, gearbox...

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Autocykl

The Autocykl was the brainchild of watchmaker Rostislav Dyna from Czech. It was a narrow (800...

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Aero Trike Roadster

The Aero Trike Roadster (or ATR) was a kit designed by Maurice Bourne of Marquez, Texas,...

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Mother Earth News’s 3VG

Mother Earth News magazine published articles on a series of prototypes that it built featuring tilting...

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Home built microcar by Gerber László

In 1961, Gerber László of Kispest, head of the Red Star Tractor Factory, designed and built...

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Fesztival by Kálmán Szabadi

Kálmán Szabadi, who died at the age of 81 in the winter of 2010, was best...

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Azov (Азов)

For 25 years, Viktor Golovan, a resident of Berdyansk, Ukraine, has been using a home built...

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Imre Dongó’s city car

Imre Dongó, teacher of Bercsényi Miklós Vocational Secondary School and Grammar School in Győr, was a...

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István Domoszlai 3-wheeler

This three-wheeled small car was built in Debrecen, Hungary, by István Domoszlai. It is now in...

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Homemade microcar from Ukraine

This cute one-seat microcar was built at home by a resident of Ukraine, who drives it...

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Homemade microcar by Vasily Terteki

It seems that there is no impossible for the Ukrainians on their way to a better...

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Valga-Kvartet (Валга-Квартет)

When you start building a car, each amateur designer should firstly clearly imagine what qualities the...

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Minsk (“Минск”)

Soviet times were free for inquisitive minds. This interesting microcar was made by Alexander Dlotovsky, the president...

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The first car from Tajikistan turnes out to be more economical than the Prius

The first car of the local design has been presented in Tajikistan. 28-year-old craftsman Jamoliddin Ashurov...

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Arbet

“My car is no weird car,” wrote Jeff Gibson. “It is, by all standards, a normal...

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Samy

In the mid-60s, the problem of a city car was extremely important. Practical proposals were seen so far,...

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Antilope Bromauto

Antilope Bromauto was made by N.G. Boos from Hilversum, Holland in 1952. In Dutch ‘Antilope’ of...

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André Siames Electric Car

This electric microcar was built in 1954 by André Siames, an electrician from Boulogne-sur-Seine near Paris,...

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Dózsa-Farkas András 3-wheeler

In 1950, Dózsa-Farkas András (1902-1982) started the industrial design training in Academy of Applied Arts, which is...

Andersen Motor Company

AMC Cub

The Andersen Motor Company from Liverpool, United Kingdom, developed the AMC Cub — a microcar inspired the...

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AM

AM is a self-made, single-seat microcar from the Czech Republic. It had a streamlined body, in...