The Search for a Self-contained Cartridge The story of America’s iconic lever action rifle began with the efforts to invent a practical self contained cartridge. This was a relatively slow developmental process and while today we…
One of the Last “Real Cars” Ever Made For a diehard classic MG enthusiast the MG SA might be described as one of the last “real cars” made. Let me elucidate with a short story of…
Introduction In the lead up to both the first and second world wars the British Government and the British press seem to have been reluctant to accept the fairly obvious circumstances that pointed to the inevitability…
It Began With a Gilded Cage and the Bicycle Craze You’ve no doubt heard of the song “Only a bird in a guilded cage…” and the manufacture of delicate guilded cages was the way the Heinz,…
The Brough Superior and the Brough “Inferior” George Brough’s father, William Edward Brough, was a motorcycle aficionado and was a knowledgeable and respected maker of motorcycles, so young George Brough grew up involved in his father’s…
The Rarest Toyota Land Cruisers The Toyota Land Cruiser FJ45V is one of the rarest of the various Land Cruiser J40 models. Its a four wheel drive that I’ve long wanted to own but sadly that…
Annie Oakley’s Early Life Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Mosey on August 13, 1860, less than a year before the American Civil War began. Her father was Jacob Mosey and her mother Susan Wise and…
America’s Service Pistol Could Have Been the Luger The turn of the twentieth century was a time when self-loading pistols were first appearing and looked to be the way of the future. This was also the…
A Pair of “Barn Find” Rifles The Winchester Model 70 has long been called “The Rifleman’s Rifle” since they hit the gun racks in gun dealers and hardware stores back in 1937. The Model 70 was,…
Mickey Thompson was born in the “Roaring Twenties” and developed a passion for speed early on. Working as a “pressman” for the Los Angles Times he accumulated enough money to get into drag racing and is…