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Premier Vintage Helmet
Premier Helmets is an Italy based company producing some nice, less common, boutique designs. All their helmets are ECE rated (read more on that here) and this particular model is moulded from carbon fibre. Featuring a flip-down visor (with either a smoked or tinted finish), the helmet looks a lot like something you’d find on the head of an Apache chopper pilot.
Bullitt In One Photograph
Easily one of the greatest car films of all time, Bullitt featuring Steve McQueen has become one of the standout celluloid icons of the late 60s. This picture was taken during filming and, I think, it sums up the film rather well. Hell, it sums up McQueens entire career rather well.
Xetum Stinson
California based Xetum Watches produce some very interesting timepieces, the relatively new company uses modern, American designs and powers them with ETA 2824-2 Swiss…
1936 Sunbeam Model 14
Sunbeams are timeless, the Model 14 is a great example from the marque. Produced between 1933 and 1938 the 250cc tourer was a solid cross country motorcycle and many of them saw unofficial service during WWII throughout Britain.
1937 Bugatti Type 57 Roadster by Worblaufen
Swiss coachbuilder Worblaufen was responsible for some truly remarkable auto designs between 1929 and 1958. The Bugatti Type 57 pictured above and below is a…
1977 Pontiac Police Cars
70’s and early 80’s police cars made an indelible impression on my mind as a kid, every movie worth watching featured boxy American cop cars chasing boxy American baddies.
Hydrodynamic Corvette
This is Don Yenko racing his 1961 Corvette, I don’t have any further information on the picture sadly. When I first found it I spent a quarter of an hour staring at it and admiring the aerodynamic effect the rain water and wind created as they pass over the hood and windshield. It’s beautiful.
Airstream Sport
Airstream have been building trailers since the 1930s, their easily identifiable all-aluminium bodies are a feature of highways around the world. The Airstream design was created by Hawley Bowlus, that’s the same unusually named chap who designed Charles Lindbergh’s aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis.
Original 1968 Holden Monaro Brochure
This is the original 1968 brochure for the now infamous Holden Monaro. The Australian muscle car became sacred-poster-material on every Australian boy’s bedroom wall, it saw production from 1968 till 1977 and was then revived in 2001 till 2005.
Tractor Skis
I’m convinced that if I had a pair of Tractor Skis and a Colt 45 I could take over most of Canada in less than a week.
Suunto Elementum Terra All Black
Suunto build some of the most intelligent watches, or wrist-top computers, that money can buy. This watch, the Suunto Elementum Terra All Black features an altimeter, barometer, chronograph, a 3D compass, it tells the time and it’s water resistant to 100m (300ft).
Trecol 39294 Amphibious 6×6
Meet the utterly unnecessary and batshit-fabulous Trecol 39294 6×6. You can keep your Hummer. We want one of these. Designed for use by the Russian military, Trecol are now selling these zombie-crunchers to civilians who find themselves needing an amphibious, six-wheel-drive hell-mobile. The 39294 has a top speed of 80kph but it’ll do that speed over any surface (think snow, ice, tundra, peasants and desert sand), it seats 8 in comfort and has a temperature operating range of -60C to +60C.