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Donald Healey’s Personal Austin-Healey 100S Coupe

Ben Branch October 22, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

In 1953 Donald Healey asked Gerry Coker, his chief designer, to design two hard-top/coupe versions of the popular Austin-Healey 100. The two designs were…

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Bremont ALT1-B

Ben Branch October 21, 2015
  • British
  • Design
  • Gear
  • Watches

The Bremont ALT1-B is a chronograph developed for use at altitude by military pilots. The design is based on the ALT1-Z chronograph that Bremont…

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Old Empire Motorcycles Victory Hammer Gladiator

Ben Branch October 20, 2015
  • American
  • British
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Motorcycles

Every now and then we get the opportunity to run a story on a custom motorcycle that was written by the the team that…

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The Wing Man – Robin Herd

Ben Branch October 18, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Films
  • Formula 1

The Wing Man is a short film from McLaren that was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Robin Herd joining Bruce McLaren’s racing…

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1962 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato

Ben Branch October 16, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Italian
  • Luxury
  • Rare

The Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato is one of the most collectible cars ever produced, just 19 were made and their values have been…

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Triumph Bonneville Scrambler by Grease Monkey

Ben Branch October 15, 2015
  • British
  • Italian
  • Motorcycles
  • Triumph

The Triumph Bonneville is broadly recognised as one of the most important motorcycle model lines in history, originally introduced in 1959 the Bonneville has…

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1963 Shelby Cobra 289

Ben Branch October 14, 2015
  • American
  • British
  • Cars
  • Shelby

The story of the Shelby Cobra has become so deeply ingrained into the psyche of automotive devotees on both sides of the Atlantic that…

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Triumph Trident Racing Motorcycle

Ben Branch October 5, 2015
  • British
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Triumph
  • Vintage

Triumph ended their factory racing program in the mid-70s due to budget restrictions and increasingly competitive two-strokes from Japan, this could have spelled the end…

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1937 Morgan Three-Wheeler

Ben Branch September 30, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

H.F.S. Morgan debuted his first three-wheeled cyclecar design at the 1911 Olympia Motor Exhibition, he had previously built a little single seat three-wheeler for…

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Jaguar XJ220

Ben Branch September 23, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Luxury
  • Rare

“The Saturday Club” was an unofficial group of 12 Jaguar engineers and designers who worked after-hours and on weekends to secretly develop the car…

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Bentley 6½ Litre Bob Tail

Ben Branch September 15, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Luxury
  • Racing
  • Vintage

The Bentley 6½ Litre was very nearly released as the Bentley 4¼ Litre, but through a twist of fate W. O. Bentley and a…

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de Havilland Vampire Jet

Ben Branch September 10, 2015
  • British
  • Military
  • Planes

In 1942 during some of the heaviest fighting of the Second World War a team of engineers at de Havilland were hard at work…

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