Thoughts on Building a Steam Car
December 1, 2006 I want to build a steam car or perhaps a steam motorcycle. Why? you ask. Oh, just for fun, I reply. The first step in a big project is research. I ordered the Essential Steam...
View ArticleCar Carrier Trailer
If you’ve visited here before you know that one of my long term projects is to built a fully road-able steam powered automobile. In addition to requiring a great deal of research, such a project...
View ArticleSteampunk Car Project – Initial Survey
Late in 2007 I spotted this car on eBay with a "Buy it Now" price of $1500 and, well, bought it then. Its a 1929 Mercedes Gazelle SSK replica made by Classic Motor Carriages. CMC made these cars in...
View ArticleSteampunk Car Project – Dashboard, Wiring, Lights
Dashboard, Wiring, Lights This car sat out in the weather for many years, as a result the interior is shot, the side panels and carpet are terribly mildewed and the spores have been giving me a...
View ArticleSteampunk Car Update – Catalytic Converter on an Aircooled VW Motor
Lots of progress! She's on the road, registered, inspected, and passed, including emissions which is pretty cool considering that she's basically a 1972 VW Beetle that was re-titled in Ohio as a 1985...
View ArticleThe Dieselpunk Tatra – Jay Leno’s Garage
When it comes to late night comedy I’m more Letterman than Leno. But when it comes to things mechanical Jay Leno is a total mench and exemplifies true Steampunk spirit. Here he is talking about a Czech...
View ArticleSTMPNK License Plates
So I got vanity plates for my kit car that read STMPNK but when I did a search on that term I just got unkind and disemvowled Boingboing comments so I acquired the domain stmpnk.com and I've been...
View ArticleSteam-mench Jay Leno’s 1909 Stanley
For our next instalment of Jay Leno Wednesday here at the Steampunk Workshop we have Jay stepping us through the start-up procedure for a 1909 Stanley and then giving us a ride. Well worth the watch...
View ArticleJay Leno’s 1906 Stanley –“It’s like driving your own coffin!”
Hi Everyone, sorry I missed the last two Jay Leno Wednesday posts! I was in Hawaii on holiday and with Meredith at Burning Man things have been kind of quiet. Well I’m back and so is Jay and his 1906...
View ArticleToyota Sienna Evaporative Canister (P0446) and SVS Valve Repair or Think Like...
Update: The procedure described below did fix the problem and the repaired SVS valve lasted for about 18 months before the vehicle started throwing the same code. I replaced the SVS valve with the one...
View ArticleSteampunk Kamaro (Camaro)
When I was a boy I vividly recall encountering, for the first time, a 1978 Camaro Z28 in a parking lot on my way home from school. I was stunned! I thought: "OMG! This is F%$king Vader’s car!" While...
View ArticleToyota Sienna Body Repair
If you follow me on Twitter you know that I had a near death encounter with a flying chunk of steel last week . This is how I spent my Saturday. . . . I was in the far left lane on Rt. 128 and a big...
View ArticleToyota Yaris Battery Light On – Repair
The day after I returned from SteamCon in Seattle I got into the car to go to the day job and discovered that my battery light was on in my 2007 Toyota Yaris. Being an old Volkswagen man I resisted...
View ArticleMjöllnir Lamps for the Roadster
Some projects take a long time. Sometimes I start something and then put it aside, in this case for more that two years! When Make:TV came out to the workshop to shoot a profile of me in July of 2008,...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Ferris Hybrid
By Brandon Boyer In 1901, Queen Victoria of The United Kingdom passed away. The same year Ferdinand Porsche developed the first ever hybrid vehicle, the Löhner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid. Today the spirit of...
View ArticleVW Type 3 Replacement Carburetor Linkage
I'm working on an old Volkswagen Type 3 for a friend, she's sort of an automotive foster child. The car in question is a 1972 VW Squareback named Adelaide and she is in surprisingly good shape except...
View ArticleiPhone Dock and Autodesk 123D Tutorial
Autodesk 123D Design iPhone dock tutorial and 2007 Lincoln Town Car SatNav Radio Audio-in hack. (Jump to 7:20 in the video to get straight to the tutorial) A couple of weeks ago I bought a new vehicle,...
View ArticleMy Last Steampunk Mod – The Steampunk Roadster
Update 6/3/2016: Car has been sold! Thanks everyone! In a few short months The Steampunk Workshop will celebrate it’s 10th birthday! I can barely believe that it’s been ten whole years since this whole...
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