KEVIN LYONS HISTORY WITH AUTOMOBILES
Our founder Kevin Lyons was introduced to cars at age four by his Mom and Dad through toys and art. By adolescence, he began modifying GM muscle cars which led to designing and building welded tube-chassis supercars from complete scratch which became a bit more challenging than restoring or customizing pre-existing cars. The images below document some of his solo engineering feats, and build accomplishments that led to the beginning of Lyons Motors. In his replica building days from the year 2000, he went by the nickname "Kevkev6.0" on the Kitcentral build forums. Pay close attention to the lack of transaxles in his Lamborghini Diablo 6.0 SE replica build. It is still the most innovative mid-engine 6-speed manual drivetrain ever made, this geometry is now a patent pending for the Streaminer hypercars. He never saw the inside of the box.
Kevin's mother always knew to steer him in the direction of what he loved cars and art. Age 5 1965
Kevin in his first car was a fire truck . Age 5 1965
Starting at a early age cars not pets were a major influence on Kevin. Age 5 1965
Kevin always took a photo with newest car he could find. 1966.
Blueprint for improved chassis design for Kevin's Lamborghini build project.
Perfect triangluated geometry
Dual fill
Dual fuel pumps
Crash box structure
Hand fabrication means making every structural part from scratch.
Proud moment driving one of his 430 HP rolling chassis to neighborhood alignment shop.
This running chassis only weighed 1000 lbs
Rolling and driving chassis, hand fabricated including the sand cast wheels.
Their Father and son projects were amazingly successful. Of course built from scratch creating blueprints.
This reveals some incredible engineering, Kevin always positioned his mid mounted engines facing rearward with transmission in front and differential mounted offset in the rear.It's now a patented drivetrain layout for Lyons Motor Car.
Kevin's Father. He wired it so he needed to pose with it.
2001 Lamborghini Diablo uses 300ZX headlights
Detail of offset rear diff and axles set up for all of his drive train designs. 355:1 gears
Very lonely task
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