Beretta SS06 Over-Under Double Rifle and Shotgun with Three Barrels

Beretta SS06 Over-Under Double Rifle and Shotgun with Three Barrels

If considering the perfect gun for the “World wide one gun hunter” then most of us think about a rifle chambered for a common “all around” cartridge that meets legal minimum caliber requirements everywhere we intend…

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Ford Car Hauler

Ford Car Hauler

Whether you are going to a car auction to pick up something interesting, or have just bought something from “Bring A Trailer“, or have a competition car you need to transport to the track, you need…

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Holland & Holland Royal Double Rifle .577 Nitro Express

Holland & Holland Royal Double Rifle .577 Nitro Express

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American author Ernest Hemingway owned and used a .577 Nitro Express double rifle, and the caliber was popular as an emergency stopper of dangerous game, especially noted as a charge stopper. There is little difference between…

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Douglas 596cc Aero

Douglas 596cc Aero

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Those who are aficionados of the BMW R Series motorcycles may not realize that the horizontally opposed Boxer engine of the R Series was first created when a BMW engineer named Max Fritz reverse engineered a British…

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Stutz Speedway Four Roadster

Stutz Speedway Four Roadster

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Although we tend to associate twin cam engines with double valves (i.e. four valves per cylinder) with the late twentieth century and the present day in fact this level of sophistication dates all the way back…

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Porsche 911 Turbo ‘Slantnose’ Cabriolet

Porsche 911 Turbo ‘Slantnose’ Cabriolet

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Porsche’s 935 was the racing version of what was then the fastest accelerating road car. Predictably there were those who wanted a 935 to drive on the road and one of those people was racing sponsor…

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Colt Trooper

Colt Trooper

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When Colt ceased production of their double-action revolvers back in 1999 there was much wailing and gnashing of the teeth amongst the Colt aficionados. It remained possible to get a Colt Python made to special order…

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Jensen Interceptor III Convertible

Jensen Interceptor III Convertible

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Have you ever wondered why it is that the most interesting and often the better cars are the ones that people generally don’t buy? Back in 1966 British car maker Jensen introduced the Jensen Interceptor as…

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Lamborghini LM002-A

Lamborghini LM002-A

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Given the choice there is only one Lamborghini I would really like to own. Its not one of their many and perfectly nice supercars. What could be better than a Lamborghini shooting wagon? This animal of…

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Elvis Presley’s Revolvers

Elvis Presley’s Revolvers

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Elvis Presley had good taste in revolvers. He was a “US male” before he became a rock and roll star and he grew up in a nation that, at that time, was strongly patriotic, and which…

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