The Wildey Pistol is Back
Heavy calibre hunting handguns are, in my humble opinion at least, enormously enjoyable to shoot. It can help to have arms like Popeye the Sailorman, and to have consumed your can of Spinach before lining her…
Toyota Kikai 2015 Concept Car
Wandering down the main street of the town where I live today I saw a hot rod based on what looked like a 1938 Ford Model 48 utility (or pick-up for our US readers). It was…
Japanese Sword, 16th Century, in Shin-Gunto Mountings
It was quite common for senior officers of the Japanese Imperial Army who came from traditional samurai families to have a family heirloom sword blade mounted in army regulation mounts to carry on duty. For this…
Custom 1972 Chevrolet Corvette Shark Car
The 1972 Chevrolet Corvette was an interesting car, but it was a car that would respond nicely to some well thought out improvements. The original shark nosed Corvette was a car that set whole new standards…
The VW Iltis
The Volkswagen Iltis is one of those lesser know but quite superb cars that really should be rather more appreciated than they are. Occasionally one of these wonderfully interesting little vehicles pops up for sale and…
1973 Jensen Healey Barn Find
The Jensen Healey was one of very few cars to win a Sports Car Club of America championship in its first year of competition. That occurred in 1973, the year of production for this interesting Jensen…
1984 Maserati Biturbo “Barn Find” on E-Bay
I like Italian cars, even Fiats have an inherent Italianness about them that makes them a whole lot more desirable than a Toyota, or Nissan or even, heaven forbid, a Hyundai. Of course the Toyota, Nissan…
Beretta 455 Side by Side Double Rifle
The Chinese have a saying regarding buying something that is expensive and exotic; “Easy to buy, difficult to sell”. Strangely so many of the “Easy to buy, difficult to sell” things in life are also the…
Janis Joplin and her Porsche 356C
In one of her most famous songs Janis Joplin sings “Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all drive Porsches, I must make “Amens”, worked hard all my lifetime, no help from…
1965 Aston Martin DB5 Convertible
It’s one of the prettiest Aston Martin DB5’s I’ve ever seen, but they want a cool million pounds sterling for it – and one could buy a rather nice house for that – but it remains…