It was quite common for senior officers of the Japanese Imperial Army who came from traditional samurai families to have a family heirloom sword blade mounted in army regulation mounts to carry on duty. For this…
The 1972 Chevrolet Corvette was an interesting car, but it was a car that would respond nicely to some well thought out improvements. The original shark nosed Corvette was a car that set whole new standards…
The Volkswagen Iltis is one of those lesser know but quite superb cars that really should be rather more appreciated than they are. Occasionally one of these wonderfully interesting little vehicles pops up for sale and…
The Jensen Healey was one of very few cars to win a Sports Car Club of America championship in its first year of competition. That occurred in 1973, the year of production for this interesting Jensen…
I like Italian cars, even Fiats have an inherent Italianness about them that makes them a whole lot more desirable than a Toyota, or Nissan or even, heaven forbid, a Hyundai. Of course the Toyota, Nissan…
The Chinese have a saying regarding buying something that is expensive and exotic; “Easy to buy, difficult to sell”. Strangely so many of the “Easy to buy, difficult to sell” things in life are also the…
In one of her most famous songs Janis Joplin sings “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make “Amens”, worked hard all my lifetime, no help from…
It’s one of the prettiest Aston Martin DB5’s I’ve ever seen, but they want a cool million pounds sterling for it – and one could buy a rather nice house for that – but it remains…
Although a top grade London double rifle will be out of reach for the majority of enthusiasts there are some nice double rifles that are within reach, and one of these is the Beretta Silver Sable….
Rock and Roll stars are not typically people who lovingly cherish their cars. And this was true of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in his ownership of his 1965 Bentley S3 Continental Flying Spur Sports…