Porsche 356 B 1600 Roadster by Drauz
The Porsche 356 was very much a father and son design effort with Dr. Ferdinand Porsche senior initially creating the Type 64 around 1938 with the intention of building three cars to compete in the planned…
Engraved Winchester Model 1873
The Winchester Model 1873 was one of the most successful of Winchester’s lever action rifles and is another of the arms that have been given the title “The gun that won the west” although of course…
Rolls-Royce Phantom VI Limousine
The Rolls-Royce Phantom VI was the last Rolls-Royce make with a chassis and was in production from 1968-1990. Over that extensive period just 374 were made and these cars were the preserve of royalty and the…
Warnant Top Break Double Action Revolver
Belgium has been a center of gun-making for a very long time and so there have been a large number of makers, many with patents registered in Belgium and Britain, and so there are a great…
Roger Rule’s Pre-64 Winchester Model 70
Roger Rule is the author of what is perhaps the definitive book on “The Rifleman’s Rifle” the Winchester Model 70 1936-1963. Not only that but he has had a life career that has included service with…
The Browning BAR Mark II Safari
The Browning BAR sporting rifle is not the same as the John Moses Browning BAR of World War I fame. The BAR sporting rifle is a design that was created with the input of Val Browning’s…
The .264 Winchester Magnum
The .264 Winchester Magnum is a cartridge that deserved to do better than it did way back in 1959 and 1960 when Winchester unleashed it into dealer’s shops in the form of the Model 70 Westerner….
Pre-64 Model 70 in .264 Winchester Magnum
For classic rifle enthusiasts Winchester’s pre-64 Model 70 is one of the most desirable rifles on earth although their current model Super Grades complete with controlled feed action are utterly superb; I have one, and I…
Sunbeam Tiger
The creation of the Sunbeam Tiger is a story that deviates somewhat from the image we may have of the British being stuffy and conservative; getting that V8 engine into the diminutive engine bay of the…
A Pair of Griffin & Howe Bolt Action Rifles
Griffin & Howe rifles have been the rifle of choice for such notable sporting shooters as writers Ernest Hemingway and Robert Ruark, actors Bing Crosby and Clark Gable, and US President Dwight D. Eisenhower. They are…