Zane Grey was a man who loved America’s west and the fishing and hunting adventures he could enjoy there. He became one of America’s most influential authors in the Wild West and frontier genre in print,…
Imagine a target pistol that has been based on the design work of an ex-French Foreign Legion captain: a pistol that has been designed with accuracy and reliability as top priorities: and imagine this pistol engineered…
While many people are aware of Bugatti’s automobiles there are few who are familiar with the one attempt Bugatti made at creating an aircraft, and not just an aircraft for transport, but an aircraft for racing….
The Rogers and Spencer was perhaps the greatest of the Civil War revolvers, but paradoxically it was never used in combat in the Civil War. Fast Facts Rogers and Spencer were located in Uttica, New York,…
It looked a bit like a Bugatti Type 32 “Tank” racing car that had been crossbred with a train: That being said it was far more powerful than the Type 32 Tank, it was a lot…
The Tatra T77 was a radical design created in the aftermath of the Great Depression and in the years that led up to the outbreak of the Second World War. The car was powered by a…
The Schwarzlose pistol, which was first patented in 1908, is one of the more different designs to emerge from that developmental era around the turn of the 19th to the 20th centuries, in the lead up…
Fast Facts The Vincati motorcycles were originally built in Australia by combining an original Vincent Rapide or Black Shadow engine into a Ducati 750 chassis. It was possible to modify the Ducati chassis so the Vincent…
Fast Facts Russian gun makers seem unique in the world in that they make sporting guns using the Lancaster oval bore to spin projectiles to achieve improved accuracy. The Russian Lancaster bore guns fall into two…
Fast Facts The Bugatti Type 57 was primarily designed by Ettore Bugatti’s son Jean. It was powered by a DOHC straight eight which was based on the SOHC Type 49 but extensively improved by Jean. The…