Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (fka CYPW)

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The photo of the white land speed record car (before being painted in Cyclone yellow) has Chuk Williams (left, in green shirt), Frankie Fruge (Cyclone president) and Harry Schoell (Cyclone CTO).

Chuk Williams was building the car to set the land speed record for steam cars. In December 2009 Harry Schoell became a sponsor of Chuk's car offering a high performance Cyclone Mark 5 engine. http://www.cyclonepower.com/press/12-09-09.pdf Eventually Harry Schoell painted the car yellow and started telling people it was his car.

In March 2012, after numerous delays in the promised delivery of the Mark 5 engine for the land speed car, Chuk Williams announces the collaboration with Cyclone has ended. http://www.steamautomobile.com/ForuM/read.php?1,14474,19822#msg-19822 Chuk obtained another steam engine and ran his car on the Bonneville Salt Flats in October, 2012.

Also in March 2012, Cyclone announces hiring race car driver Nelson Hoyos to head their "performance division" called TeamSteamUSA. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/idUS154642+26-Mar-2012+BW20120326 This leads to the construction of the pointy car in the last photo by a professional race car building shop.

In February 2013 they are covered in a feature article in Racecar Engineering magazine claiming they were going to hit 200 mph in testing in February (at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida), then 250 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats that summer, then put in a bigger engine to reach 400 mph. The current record is 147 mph. http://www.steamautomobile.com/ForuM/read.php?1,20060,21108#msg-21108

In March 2013 Nelson Hoyos ends his time with Cyclone. The car was never run. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelson-hoyos-25856a12

After numerous excuses as to why their car has never run, Cyclone appeals to crowdfunding for $125,000 for "safety equipment" in June 2015. By August 2015 a total of $430 was raised. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/clean-cyclone-steam-engine-to-set-speed-record#/story