The Vesna was a home-built car with a continuously variable belt drive, built by Vladimir Semenovich Mironov, a professional designer from the Moscow region who held more than twenty author's certificates. The idea came after he saw a combine harvester at work in a field with a belt drive and wondered whether a car could run on such belts. He sketched a drive in which the engine turned the wheels…
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