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General Discussion => Sidecar Talk => Topic started by: Jon on May 02, 2017, 09:34:55 pm

Title: Homemade sidecar plans
Post by: Jon on May 02, 2017, 09:34:55 pm

Found this old popular mechanics plan for a sidecar. The technology would be appropriate for a Bullet although you would have to find or fabricate a chassis.

Title: Re: Homemade sidecar plans
Post by: Narada on May 05, 2017, 02:02:56 am

What a rig! With steam bent Ash longerons... It would have been gorgeous with wood skin instead of that space-age aluminium.  8)

You wouldn't have page 134 would you Jon? I would like to read the whole thing. Maybe keep a copy for my sidecar book collection?  ::)

Title: Re: Homemade sidecar plans
Post by: Jon on May 15, 2017, 04:44:55 pm

Sorry don't have page 134 and haven't been able to find it online. I did find a set of three books with reprints of various Popular Mechanics projects including one converting an old Harley to a snowmobile but no sidecar.

Title: Re: Homemade sidecar plans
Post by: Kevin Mahoney on May 16, 2017, 01:08:28 am

That magazine was the best! ( I know it is still published but a mere shadow of it's former self). I always lusted after the one-man hydroplane plans.

This is great find!!
then I found thishttps://books.google.com/books?id=CdoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT45&lpg=PT45&dq=popular+mechanics+sidecar+plans&source=bl&ots=cuo_-GmvIk&sig=RrQW6w1LZoyU0dYfh24I4Y-8YyY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEne7uj_PTAhVL6GMKHcs_CQI4ChDoAQgiMAA#v=onepage&q=popular%20mechanics%20sidecar%20plans&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=CdoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT45&lpg=PT45&dq=popular+mechanics+sidecar+plans&source=bl&ots=cuo_-GmvIk&sig=RrQW6w1LZoyU0dYfh24I4Y-8YyY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEne7uj_PTAhVL6GMKHcs_CQI4ChDoAQgiMAA#v=onepage&q=popular%20mechanics%20sidecar%20plans&f=false)