AC 16/60 Doctor’s Coupe
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…