The Honda S600 was Honda’s first car aimed at breaking into the global motor car mass market. Up until then Honda had been primarily a motorcycle manufacturer but had built two four wheeled vehicles, the T360…
Jon C. Branch
Lancia Aurelia B24S Spider America
The world’s first production V6 engine was created by Francesco De Virgilio of Lancia. It was an engine partly based on technological developments made in pre-war Lancia cars and in part designed to solve the problem…
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Capri Tools Torque Screwdriver Set
Owners of bolt action rifles are amongst the most likely to seek to do whatever it takes to extract the utmost in accuracy from their rifle system. Quite likely one of the main reasons, usually the…
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Hart Steam Victoria Four-Seater Dos-à-Dos
Interesting is more important than fast. When it comes to cars there are lots of simply fast cars out there, but there aren’t so many really interesting ones. I think steam engines are the most interesting…
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Weatherby Mark XXII Bolt Action Rifle
If you can turn the hobby you are passionate about into your full time job then you are near certain to be very happy about going to work every day. Roy Weatherby was someone who accomplished…
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Wheeler Engineering “Level-Level-Level”
Not everyone is a perfectionist but some have perfectionist tendencies. The Japanese as a nation tend to be perfectionists which is why their camera optics and their swords are second to none. Likewise the Germans are…
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MGB GT
Jeremy Clarkson once said of MG owners that you could always pick one because of the ingrained grease and dirt under their fingernails. There may be a grain of truth in this although I haven’t yet…
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Bugatti EB110 GT
Back in 1991 the Bugatti marque was resurrected for a few years by Italian entrepreneur Romano Artioli who set up Bugatti Automobili S.p.A. in Italy and debuted the company’s first car, the Bugatti EB110 GT on…
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Darne Sliding Breech Double Guns and Rifles
Régis Darne established his gun-making business in Saint Etienne in East Central France in 1881. Saint Etienne had become an arms making center as far back as the 16th Century and had even been briefly renamed…
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Brough Superior 11-50 Motorcycle Combination
George Brough was a man determined to create the “Rolls Royce of motorcycles” and he succeeded in doing exactly that. His first production model was the SS80 and production began in 1922. When we say “production”…
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