Cars

At the beginning of the “Jet Age” in the fifties and sixties, as the U2 spyplane was developed and the British and French got together to create the Concord(e) car manufacturers decided to get into the…

The name Talbot-Lago may not be familiar to all but the Talbot marque has a long heritage dating back to 1903, and a Talbot was the first car ever to actually do 100 miles in one…

In our previous post we looked at Henry Ford’s plan to create a V8 for the masses and it is worth our also having a look at the sort of car that was not for the…

When we read about Henry Ford and the story of the creation of the V8 engine that went into the 1932 Ford Model 18 it seems little short of a miracle that the engine was successfully…

The first Shelby Cobra, chassis number CSX2000, is coming up for sale in August 2016. Back in 1961 AC cars of Thames Ditton, in the county of Surrey in Britain were making their own range of…

The legendary Italian sports car manufacturer Iso began it’s career of making “cool” products as a refrigerator maker prior to the second world war. After the war Iso decided to re-define “cool” and became a motorcycle…