1950 Tatra T87
It’s a car that someone should make a movie so it can star in it, rather like the Aston Martin DB5 starred in the James Bond movie Goldfinger and the DeLorean starred in Back to the…
Holland & Holland Field’s Patent Falling Block Rifle
For some collectors and aficionados of the British single shot rifle the Field’s patent falling block is the action of choice. The Field patent is a side lever falling block that produces a rifle with a…
Indian 741 Military
Recently we featured a Second World War Harley Davidson WLA for sale on eBay and this week we’ve stumbled across an Indian Motocycle 741 Military motorcycle (the spelling “Indian Motocycle” is coincidentally correct as you will…
1920 Detroit Electric Brougham
People are different; some of us like to hear the uneven throb of a V8 or the piercing scream of a Formula 1 car, and some don’t. Some instead are content with the sound of silence,…
Winchester Model 1887 Shotgun and Model 1895 Rifle
There are a lot of interesting and desirable guns coming up for sale at Rock Island Auction’s next auction scheduled for 24th-26th June 2016. In fact there are over seven thousand items listed for this particular…
Hodgdon Powder and ADI; The Australian Connection
Hodgdon has been supplying shooters and reloaders with top quality powder since the end of the Second World War. They are a company that has earned the respect and trust of people involved in the shooting…
Belgian Browning Auto 5 Semi-Automatic Shotgun
John Moses Browning once said that he regarded his Auto 5 semi-automatic shotgun as one of his best inventions. It remains one of the best choices as a practical shotgun whether for target shooting such as…
Aston Martin V8 Series 4 “Oscar India”
After experimenting with Bosch electronic fuel injection in the Series 2 V8’s Aston Martin reverted back to four dual throat Weber carburettors for the Series 3 which was in production from 1973 until October 1978 when…
Aston Martin Lagonda Series 3 Shooting Brake
William Town’s 1976 design of the Aston-Martin Lagonda to this day never fails to turn heads or, if it’s standing still, draw a crowd. Created at the end of the wildly creative sixties as that creativity…
Daimler V8 250 by Vicarage
In post war Britain prestige car maker Daimler found themselves in a new marketing and manufacturing environment and they entered it, I suspect, without a really defined forward vision. Jaguar, under the leadership of William Lyons…