The Soviet Yakovlev Yak 3 is one of the least known, but one of the most interesting of the fighter aircraft of World War II. And there is one for sale down in New Zealand, the…
Yakovlev Yak 3
Mauser Model 66S in 7x64mm Brenneke
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What one considers to be drop dead gorgeous – although a bit quirky – another will describe as “butt ugly”. We see this with cars such as the…
M1902 Colt Automatic Pistol in .38 Automatic (.38ACP)
John Moses Browning was a prolific firearms designer. Trained by his father Jonathan Browning in his gun shop from the age of seven John M. Browning created a number of the iconic firearms of the nineteenth…
Lancia-Abarth SE 037
At the beginning of the seventies Italian sports car maker Abarth was absorbed into the Fiat empire which involved coming under the corporate strategy setting dictated by Fiat’s top levels of management. Abarth having had a…
Daimler SP250 Dart Project
Built by Birmingham Small Arms owned Daimler Cars (by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen), with a V8 engine designed by the man who created the Ariel Square 4 motorcycle engine, and with input from Jaguar,…
THE GRAND PRIX CAR 1945-1965
There’s a nice series of videos on The Grand Prix Car 1945-1965 available on YouTube. Each episode is about 25 minutes long and there is much archival footage and interviews with such people as Stirling Moss,…
GunSonics iPhone App
If you don’t want to finish up like me after decades of shooting – with some hearing loss – then it’s wise to put some effort into protecting your hearing before it’s too late. Hearing loss…
Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr
Desperate people tend to resort to desperate measures. So it was in 1916 as German troops faced the menace of the new allied tanks that they were driven to try to find a counter measure and…
Antonio Zoli Combination Gun/Rifle Set
In Europe combination guns and double rifles are relatively popular, partly because of their practicality, but also in part because of restrictions on firearms ownership in certain countries. In Europe there can also be a certain…
Richard “Dick” Seaman and the Mercedes Silver Arrows
Richard “Dick” Seaman was the only British racing driver to be admitted to the Mercedes-Benz “Silver Arrows” Grand Prix racing team in the period before the Second World War. Born on 4th February 1913 as the…