• Fire-Breathing Robot is a Dieselpunk Dragoncycle

    Artist Lyle Rowell combined bits of cars and motorcycles to create Lrry-1, an animal-shaped vehicle that breathes fire as it stomps through the streets of Italy.

    Rowell spent four months and $5000 constructing Lrry-1, which runs on a 26-horsepower Citroën engine and is made of BMW and Suzuki motorcycle frames. Rowell says the 1,900-pound robo-beast's shape is meant to be part donkey, part raptor, but as it lumbers through Lowell's hometown of Rimini, Italy, it evokes visions of a wingless dragon, spewing propane-fueled fire from its head and tail.

    You Built What!? Lrry, A Fire Breathing Robo-Beast [Popular Science]

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    By Lauren Davis
    Sep 6, 2009 1:00 PM 0
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    Fire-Breathing Robot is a Dieselpunk Dragoncycle

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