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Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a new series we’re doing on Silodrome, in this series we’ll be asking owners to tell the story of their vehicle in their own words. Stories…
The Iso Grifo 7 Litri was to be one of the fastest road-legal production cars of its time, with a claimed top speed of 186 mph. The car was an extraordinary achievement from a…
This unusual, almost alien-looking, sculpture is the work of Mike O’Connor. It started life In Maranello, Italy where it was manufactured by Ferrari as part of the Ferrari 056 engine that was used by…
This is the Cagiva V593 that John Kocinski famously rode to a David vs Goliath 1993 USGP win at Laguna Seca against far larger and better funded teams. The engineers at Cagiva had thrown…
This Lock Pick Training Kit was developed to give people a quick and inexpensive entry into the world of competitive lock picking. Although we often associate lock picking with burglars and other assorted thieves,…
The Black Ghost: Street Racing Legend is a new documentary from the American Historic Vehicle Association about a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T SE ordered new by a man named Godfrey Qualls. This triple black 426…
The Jaguar D-Type is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was a car designed using some cutting edge aircraft technology (in the 1950s) that would defeat all who came before it at…
Although the Honda ATC70 and its siblings in the ATC model family looked almost comically harmless, they were deemed responsible for nearly 7,000 injuries per month, and hundreds of deaths in the United States at…
The cars built by Baldwin Motion were among the fastest semi-production cars in the United States in the ’60s and ’70s, they were so fast in fact that the DOJ and EPA shut the company…
These are the Opinari Rosso Acceso driving gloves, they’re made from sustainably sourced peccary leather which ensures that they’re able to last a lifetime rather than just a few years. Peccary leather is sourced…
When the Toyota Land Cruiser FJ70, and the 70 series family, were introduced to the general public in 1984 Toyota executives must have been watching the reception the vehicles were getting very closely. Toyota…
The Cosworth DFV is the most successful Formula 1 engine of all time, and probably the most successful top tier racing engines all time. Astonishingly, the Cosworth DFV powered 10 Formula One Constructors’ Champions,…
