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…
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…
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…
When GI’s returned from World War II they had developed a tasted for the M1 Garand rifle with it’s 1907 military sling, the Harley Davidson motorcycle, and the Willy’s Jeep. As the M1 Garand was not…
There is a pink 1956 Cadillac DeVille coming up for auction this coming weekend on Saturday 14th May 2016 by Lucky Collector Car Auctions. The car MAY have been owned by Elvis Presley although there is…
This coming weekend over 14th and 15th May 2016 the Southern New Hampshire Antique and Auto Auction will be held in Brookline. This may not be an instant attention grabbing headline for some reading this unless…
The line of sports cars that began quite accidentally with the Jaguar XK 120 that caused such a stir and an unexpected flood of orders at the 1948 London Motor Show took the XK series of…
The Harley Davidson WLA was the World War II motorcycle made by Harley Davidson specifically for Army messengers and signals. These bikes not only saw use by US troops but also by Allied forces such as…
The Maserati Bora was another of the styling creations of Giorgetto Giugiaro along with the Maserati Boomerang and the iconic DeLorean. The Bora was without doubt a vastly superior car to the DeLorean and a more…
(Note: This post updated on 5th August 2017 with additional re-loading information). The Mauser 9×57 is an interesting cartridge that was reasonably popular before the Second World War. Sitting in power and size around the .358…