The seventies was a troubled time for Harley-Davidson. The company had been purchased by American Machine and Foundry (AMF) who wanted to streamline production to reduce costs and increase profits. As tends to happen when the…
Although I had done some shooting before I joined a pistol club I think I really learned to shoot properly in the pistol club. The first club I joined was in a small mining town in…
The third generation Ford Thunderbird made its debut in 1961 and was made until 1963. 1961 Ford Thunderbirds featured in American President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural parade. Ford Executive and later Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara…
TVR stands for “Trevor”. The TVR sports car company was the brainchild of Trevor Wilkinson who began the company back in 1946. The original name of the company was Trevcar Motors and it did not begin…
The Rolls-Royce Phantom series was a development of the 40/50hp series of the 1920’s. With the creation of two 40/50hp cars Rolls-Royce decided to name them to differentiate between them so one was called the Silver…
Its a car that might just be perfect if you have some Walter Mitty tendencies. The Jaguar 420G was the upmarket luxury version of the Jaguar Mk X and it was designed to appeal to heads…
It only has a single seat and a twin cylinder engine and it can’t get much above walking pace but it sounds just as fantastic as a big single cylinder motorcycle. The Rumely Oil Pull traction engine…
The Battle of the Little Bighorn is probably best known as “Custer’s Last Stand” but it is also sometimes referred to as “The Indians Last Stand”. It was the pivotal battle of the wars between the…
They were a revolver favored by Pat Garret and Jesse James. During the frontier era of the second half of the nineteenth century the Merwin Hulbert revolvers were not just the equal of the revolvers from…
When Chevrolet unveiled their new Corvette sports car in 1953 Ford executives realized they would need to do something and the obvious thing would have been to create a Ford sports car that would directly compete…