home made ultralite, only 750 dollars, but it crashed

found on http://pixtale.net/2013/05/chinese-diy-inventions/

Farmer Shu Mansheng prepares to take off with his homemade ultralight aircraft in Wuhan, Hubei province, on May 10, 2010. (Reuters/China Daily)

the wonderful hand made car parts (and baseball gloves!) trophy variety at the Friends of Steve McQueen car show at the Chino Hills Boys Republic

a new side mirror costs about 100 bucks from a dealership. I don't know how much your pride in your cars appearance is worth though when you use sheet metal screws, binder twine, or purple duct tape

I took these photos over the time of one week. They are all within 10 blocks of each other 

the barnfind Evinrude outboard powered bicycle, up close with details. Found in the Don Laughlin Museum exhibit

my best guess is that the outboard motor, through a flex drive, operates a reduction gear housing hidden from view by the front fender, but the drive wheel can be seen riding on the front wheel in the above photo, through a cut out in the fender. An idler wheel rolls a v drive belt via a shaft, and that spins the cooling fan in front of the radiator.

this might have been stored since the moment some mom had the scare of her life seeing her boy ride it.

Evinrude seems to have made, or licensed its name to bicycles: http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?16024-Finally-find-a-good-bike-and-its-a-darned-boys-bike&p=79860#post79860

Model T race car in the early stages of getting built, from swap meet parts mostly..

I just love the colors, blue body, flat black rims... and the choice of rim! Period correct, even Ford specific

Studio44Werks has posted some cool interesting swap meet stuff!

 Either a straight six, or a v12 powers this Rolls Royce hood ornamented boat tailed vintage appearing bare aluminum beast. Pauli Järnström helped out immensely with a gallery link to the Rolls, it's name is Silver Meteor, it's been home built by a retiree, and the full galley is at http://teiska.kuvat.fi/kuvat/SILVER+METEOR/

 Check out this trailer... looks like a 55 gallon steel drum with a cleaver, come-along, and shovel with a hanged section to get access to the vouminous interior... that is some garage made one of a kind trailer right there! Looking ahead to the sidecar motorcycle of rust and rebar... I think someone is making things up as they go along

 that is a stunning design of engine cover

 I've never seen a sprocket with art deco eagle designs before... wow

from the Finland blog http://studio44werks.blogspot.fi/ 

Homemade tank inspired by the Transformers movie... but the tank treads caught my attention, they'd work well in woody or vegetative areas I think

found on: http://randommization.com/2011/02/26/chinese-man-makes-megatron-tank-out-of-scrap/

the "NeverWas Haul" is the name of this vehicle at Burning Man

above via http://goawaygarage.blogspot.com/

Above from http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/
In the above the cow catcher is missing
http://www.neverwashaul.com/ to see and learn all about it
All three of these were from different sites, and I've posted two of them before, but never together. The middle one is new to me, and from http://megamoto.tumblr.com/

the guy in charge is Major Catastrophe, and is interviewed here about what it's about: http://etheremporium.pbworks.com/w/page/10454244/Neverwas-Haul

And it is featured in this video about Steampunk