Whilst British gunmaker Purdey is generally associated with the making of the finest shotguns money can buy Purdey also make some of the finest sporting rifles extant. Currently for sale at their shop at Audley House,…
The .308 Winchester has become one of the most popular cartridges in the world for good reason. The cartridge has mild recoil and muzzle blast and so can be chambered in lightweight rifles; and it is…
The Triumph TR series of sports cars did not get off to a good start back in October 1952. Triumph wanted to build a sports car to compete with the brilliant Austin-Healey but they wanted to…
I guess that in the United States going out and purchasing a hunting rifle is not a particularly difficult thing to do. It just requires sufficient money to buy the rifle of your choice and then,…
When you were a kid did you want to be a fireman? A lot of kids do and some get to fulfill their dream whilst others miss out and go on to become bankers and lawyers…
At the time of its introduction back in 1963 the .300 Winchester Magnum was a controversial cartridge. The fifties and sixties were the heydays of the cartridge “wildcatters” and there was no shortage of experimental cartridges…
The Lamborghini Espada was created in the early days of Lamborghini’s creation of exotic sports cars with production beginning in 1968. The car was made to look clean with a touch of aircraft style with the…
John and Tom Wilkes closed their shop located just off London’s busy Regent’s Street, at 79 Beak Street, in 2003. The shop later became an art gallery appropriately called “The Riflemaker” for John Wilkes was both…
There was only ever one Hupmobile raced at the Indianapolis 500, and that was the car built and owned by Russ Snowberger who raced with the Hupmobile straight eight engine installed for the 1932 race finishing…
Zündapp were formed in 1917 by the joining together of Friedrich Krupp AG, who had made much of the artillery used during the First World War, with machine tool manufacturer Thiel, and a man named Fritz…