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12.01.09

You Built What?! The Luxury Motorcycle Sidecar

A French builder attaches the body of a sports car to a motorcycle

By Gregory Mone Posted 11.30.2009 at 11:45 am 2 Comments

In 1989, François Knorreck took a long ride in the sidecar of a friend’s motorcycle and enjoyed it so much that he decided to build a rig of his own. Now, 20 years, 63 bodywork molds and innumerable headaches later, he has it: a handcrafted masterpiece that’s part motorcycle, part Lamborghini.

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You Built What!? Lrry, A Fire Breathing Robo-Beast

Meet Lrry, a part-equine, part-reptile fire-breathing monster

By Rena Marie Pacella Posted 09.02.2009 at 9:34 am 1 Comment

Slow Ride: “Lrry has no brakes,” says builder Lyle Rowell. “Nor do I.” Elle Dunn

Don’t call Lyle Rowell’s giant fire-breathing robot a dog. The artist, who lives in Rimini, Italy, insists that his 1,900-pound creation, Lrry (pronounced “Larry”), is actually a cloven-hooved, two-legged, half-donkey, half-raptor-type-reptile.

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Pedal-Powered Panzer

A tank welded from junkyard parts -- that shoots hot dogs

By Rena Marie Pacella Posted 10.03.2008 at 11:40 am 7 Comments

If you want to crash a local parade of human-powered vehicles and soak unsuspecting onlookers in water or vaporized hot dogs, a pink camouflage tank is a pretty good craft to do it in. At least that's what 30-year-old Philadelphia gearhead Vin Marshall thought when he persuaded nine of his friends to build the 2,000-pound replica, complete with a functioning pneumatic cannon.

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Make A Walking Beast

Six tons of steel that lumbers around on eight giant legs

By Charles Crain Posted 08.26.2008 at 12:25 pm 8 Comments

Martin Montesano had been captivated since childhood by enormous walking machines like the ones in The Empire Strikes Back. A few real-life versions have been built before, but they never lived up to his vision. He wanted his to be huge.

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