The Oehler Ballistics Explorer program is an advanced external ballistics program that will do the basic tasks we want our ballistics software to do, but it then goes beyond what most alternatives can do in providing…
The 9.3×64 Brenneke, Germany’s answer to the 375 Holland and Holland Magnum
(Note: This post was updated with additional information on 7th April 2015). The 9.3x64mm Brenneke is, in my mind at least, one of the top two cartridges for the “one rifle world wide hunter”. There are…
1959 TVR Jomar MkII
I tend to think of TVR as the “Abarth of Britain”. These were cars built by imaginative enthusiasts for imaginative enthusiasts. Business and the business of making lots of money seems not to have been the…
A Humidor and a Contemplative Cuban
I was never into cigarette smoking, except for Indonesian “Kretek” clove cigarettes which I discovered and developed a taste for when I was travelling in Indonesia in the mid-seventies; and I may never have discovered cigars…
1972 Datsun 510 “1600” SR20DE/5-Speed
Back when I had just graduated from college and was about to take up my first ever work contract I needed a car and almost had an Austin-Healey 3000. However, the Healey’s owner changed his mind…
1963 Porsche 356B Super 90 Coupé Project
Years ago US President George W. Bush made the statement “No child left behind”. It was a good sentiment and I’m sure there were lots of teachers who were keen to help that happen. Sadly the…