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…
In November of 1937 in a Germany where universal conscription had been introduced two years earlier and the creation of Biker Private Troops had been agreed to the German Oberkommando Heer (OKH) became engaged in discussions…
The Honda S600 was Honda’s first car aimed at breaking into the global motor car mass market. Up until then Honda had been primarily a motorcycle manufacturer but had built two four wheeled vehicles, the T360…
The world’s first production V6 engine was created by Francesco De Virgilio of Lancia. It was an engine partly based on technological developments made in pre-war Lancia cars and in part designed to solve the problem…
Owners of bolt action rifles are amongst the most likely to seek to do whatever it takes to extract the utmost in accuracy from their rifle system. Quite likely one of the main reasons, usually the…
Interesting is more important than fast. When it comes to cars there are lots of simply fast cars out there, but there aren’t so many really interesting ones. I think steam engines are the most interesting…
If you can turn the hobby you are passionate about into your full time job then you are near certain to be very happy about going to work every day. Roy Weatherby was someone who accomplished…
Not everyone is a perfectionist but some have perfectionist tendencies. The Japanese as a nation tend to be perfectionists which is why their camera optics and their swords are second to none. Likewise the Germans are…