Carroll Shelby and a "James Bond Car" If ever there was a car that looked like it should be a James Bond car this was it. Not only that but the Aston Martin DB2/4 Mk III was a car that embodied the names Aston Martin and David Brown, and as if that were not enough, under ...
On his YouTube Channel American shooting video maker "hickock45" ends every video with the exortation "Life is good": and we make life good by making good choices. Just like most of us who have shooting and hunting as our hobby do it for the enjoyment we get out of it, so when we are wanting ...
One of the Last "Real Cars" Ever Made For a diehard classic MG enthusiast the MG SA might be described as one of the last "real cars" made. Let me elucidate with a short story of love, family and democracy. Back in the late 1960's one of my friends was a classic car aficionado who owned ...
Introduction In the lead up to both the first and second world wars the British Government and the British press seem to have been reluctant to accept the fairly obvious circumstances that pointed to the inevitability of a major war. Many ordinary men and women on the street could see things as they really were and ...
The Rarest Toyota Land Cruisers The Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45V is one of the rarest of the various Land Cruiser J40 models. Its a four wheel drive that I've long wanted to own but sadly that happy experience has eluded me. What has been the attraction? The Land Cruiser FJ45V put together all the good features ...
Mickey Thompson was born in the "Roaring Twenties" and developed a passion for speed early on. Working as a "pressman" for the Los Angles Times he accumulated enough money to get into drag racing and is known as the first to create the "slingshot" dragster in 1954 by moving the driver's seat behind the rear ...
Ford made trucks based on the Model T passenger car in order to begin to provide for the needs of American farmers and industry. Beginning in 1917 the Ford TT 1 ton truck was put in to production with just three made that year, followed by 41,105 the following year. America was by that time ...
To Build a Car Americans Would Love The Austin A90 Atlantic was Britain's plan for a car for America. This was to be the car that would take the United States by storm and become a "must have" fashion icon. There was just one teensy weensy little problem with that, the Americans didn't want it. What was ...
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche once said “I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.” It is clear that he envisioned his concept of a rear engine sports car powered by a horizontally opposed engine quite early in his quest to create that sports car of his dreams, but the actual ...
Donald Duck, Bruce McLaren, Graham Chapman, and the Jeep Have you ever wondered what was the inspiration for Donald Duck's car? Have you ever realized that the cars first raced by Bruce McLaren and Graham Chapman of Lotus were originally made by the same company that invented the Jeep? For a journey into a bit of ...
