Silodrome’s Quick History Of The Suzuki Jimny
The Suzuki Jimny was an “out of the box” creation, the first compact consumer four-wheel-drive but fully-featured with a dual range transfer case, a ladder…
Brief Histories
A Quick History of the Indian 101 Scout
Charles B. Franklin: the Engineer with Practical Experience Charles Bayly Franklin, the engineer who was to create three of the most iconic Indian motorcycles,…
A Brief History From The Lotus 7 to The Caterham 7
Above Image: A Lotus 7 battling with a Porsche 356 Speedster in 1984. Image courtesy of the San Francisco Region SCCA. In the Beginning:…
A Brief History Of The Mini Marcos – An Unusual Pint-Sized British Sports Car
Marcos Cars: Wooden Wonders In the wake of the Second World War, as Britain worked her way through austerity and the process of rebuilding…
A Quick History of the Rover V8 – One Of Britain’s Most Important Performance Engines
A Gas Turbine or a V8? The story of the development of the Rover V8 engine begins with a dream that became a failed…
A Brief History of the MGC – Everything You Need To Know
The MGC – A Sports Car in Search of an Engine The story of the MGC is fraught with “what could have been…” possibilities….
A Brief History of the Mighty Toyota Land Cruiser J60
Toyota’s Station Wagon Land Cruisers: From the J40 is born the Rare Toyota FJ45V The story of the Toyota J60 began with Toyota’s tentative…
A Brief History of the Shelby Series 1 – Carroll Shelby’s Only Scratch-Built Car
Carroll Shelby And His Famous Nitro Glycerine Tablets Carroll Shelby was named after a Christian minister and went from being a child with a…
A Brief History of the Norton 16H – The World War II Workhorse
The Norton 16H – A Roaring Norton for the Roaring Twenties The Norton Model 16H had its beginnings back even before the Roaring Twenties,…
A Brief History of the Lotus Esprit – Everything You Need To Know
In the Beginning: Giugiaro and a Boomerang The story of the Lotus Esprit began, not just in the minds of the design team at…
A Brief History of the Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 / BJ40 + J40 Series
The story of the Toyota Land Cruiser J Series (FJ40 / BJ40 etc) starts in the Philippines during the Second World War, the Japanese…
A Brief History of the Mighty Brough Superior SS100
A Motorcycle Superior to All Others George Brough was a man who had a love of motorcycles and a social intelligence that enabled him…