AC 16/60 Doctor’s Coupe

AC 16/60 Doctor’s Coupe

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There’s an unusual 1936 AC 16/60 “Doctor’s Coupe up for sale on eBay with five days left on the sale at time of writing. It is one of just three AC 16/60 cars known to exist…

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Bentley 4¼ Liter Airflow Saloon

Bentley 4¼ Liter Airflow Saloon

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The Bentley 4¼ liter engine was created initially in March of 1936 by simply enlarging the Bentley 3½ liter. The 3½ liter engine’s bore was increased to 3½” (88.9mm) which gave the engine a capacity of…

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Cogswell & Harrison Certus Big Game Rifle

Cogswell & Harrison Certus Big Game Rifle

The Cogswell & Harrison Certus rifle design was an attempt by London gunmaker Edgar Harrison of Cogswell & Harrison to create a bolt action rifle of purely British design. The bolt action rifles being sold by…

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Daimler Ferret Scout Car

Daimler Ferret Scout Car

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I think the Daimler Ferret scout car was quite probably the inspiration for the Daleks of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Dalek is a robotic looking creature that moves around shouting “exterminate”…

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Browning Maral Straight Pull Rifle

Browning Maral Straight Pull Rifle

Browning has done something that was so obvious that it’s really quite remarkable that it hadn’t been done before. They took the action of the Browning BAR self-loading rifle and re-designed it as a straight pull…

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Mauser M1996 Straight Pull Rifle

Mauser M1996 Straight Pull Rifle

Some of us just want one or three rifles that we will reach for when we go hunting but others are enthusiasts who really want a collection of interesting rifles to shoot and enjoy as the…

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Bentley 4½-Litre Le Mans Sports “The Bobtail”

Bentley 4½-Litre Le Mans Sports “The Bobtail”

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Walter Owen Bentley was right, and James Bond 007 chose the wrong car. W.O. Bentley was of the strong opinion that supercharging an engine was not a good idea and that simply increasing the engine capacity…

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Ex-Sammy Davis Jr. Rolls Royce Camargue

Ex-Sammy Davis Jr. Rolls Royce Camargue

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For those who lived the high life of Hollywood Showbiz back in the halcyon days of Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. money was mostly no object and life was…

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Bugatti Type 57S Cabriolet by Vanvooren

Bugatti Type 57S Cabriolet by Vanvooren

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In his best selling book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” Douglas Adams describes a scenario in which mankind create a great computer called “Deep Thought” and they ask Deep Thought to give them the answer…

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Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I Shooting Brake

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I Shooting Brake

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Rolls-Royces have not always been boring. When the company was created back in 1906 they created cars for the wealthy including the creatively eccentric wealthy who liked to engage in adventurous activities in their Rolls-Royces. Rolls-Royce…

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