Old StevProj Plans

[MikeStevenson]

I'm going to go through our boxes of old plans to see what we have. Any requests? If I find some of the out-of-print plans, I may be able to make copies.

Keep in mind the Hydroflier was never drawn up; we get asked for that a bit and we never did have plans for it (even for ourselves, as we don't work from drawings on our prototypes.)

Mike

[Mark Hughes]

Howsabout the Mini-Indie plans? My son is fascinated by the pictures on your site, and I keep meaning to ask you if the plans are still available.

[Russ Sylvester]

Ray, yes.

Mike, right off the top of my head I would say the Amphora. I never have seen the book that it was/is in. A real set of plans would be a neat project to goof off with.

Question though, did any of the Cyclekarts like the Buffy-Porson or the Alfettina make it into the plans stage? Possibly even the Type 59?

BTW, "Lord Peter"???? I about wet myself reading the R&T review. The specification sheet that R&T has is priceless.

[MikeStevenson]

As Russ says, the Hydroflier was the one-person aero-styled hydrofoil on the Experimental Boats Page.

The Amphora was one project I thought about scanning for free posting. The books are still available at ABE.com though, so I didn't get far. Maybe I should go ahead.

I'm afraid the CycleKarts are not plans projects. I did have some drawings up on the C-K website for a little while, but we pulled them down for liability and annoyance reasons (mostly annoyance). I'll let Peter know you enjoyed the article. It was a pretty good job by the R&T crew. I really like the job their cutaway guy did on the Type 59 spec page; it's super-detailed and he only had the phots to work from. I think he got inspired. We had fun sitting around thinking up silly "data" for the spec page, but the R&T guys came up with a lot of the funnier ones themselves. The Monterey Historic Race week has just wrapped up here, so we've just had a full-dose of cars and car people (Pre-Historics were on the 9th, Historics on the 16th). There's stuff all week (and even this last Monday: Peter and I went out to the track to check out the new GT 40 Ford. Ford put on a corporate-type meet-and-greet for the press and car celebs with the designers, Ford bigwigs, etc. Pretty cool car. The first "supercar" we've actually liked. Got to see Jackie Stewart, whom we'd never met.). The R&T guys are really fun (as you can tell from their April Fools articles); we had them over for dinner on the 14th and were discussing getting together in October to drive C-K's. The two new cars should be finished by then. Keep an eye on the C-K website as I'll post pics next month.

The Alfettina and the Buffy-Porson were both a little bigger than the CycleKarts: The Alfettina has a Ninja 600 and the B-P has a Honda 500 twin. I think they're more along the size of real Cyclecars. BTW, the original Buffy-Porson book is still on ABE also (the Amphora was a companion to this book, both projects aimed at kids.)

[Tom Holder]

I'd be interested in the Mini-Indy please. I had plans for a wooden car that was powered by a starter motor but I misplaced them long ago. Was that maybe one of yours?