Ben Branch
December 22, 2011
Belstaff make some of the best and most timeless gear money can buy, this 2012 version of the tried and tested Trial Master Jacket is one of those absolutely essential wardrobe items for people like me, who often get stuck outdoors on a motorcycle when it decides to start raining.
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Ben Branch
December 22, 2011
This great action shot features Donald Healey at the helm of an Austin Healey 3000 MKII on the salt flats of Bonneville in 1953.
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Ben Branch
December 19, 2011
Watches like this appeal to me, they’re antithetical to the currently-trendy giant face hipster watches and they stand well apart from anything digital.
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Ben Branch
December 18, 2011
The book Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider is the true story of Captain William Watson’s experiences during the first World War. The book covers Captain Watson’s extraordinary journeys through Ireland, Wales, England and France as the first 2 years of the war unfolded.
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Ben Branch
December 15, 2011
Boots are an essential element to any man’s wardrobe, especially heading into the cold of winter, these distressed leather boots by Belstaff have that…
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Ben Branch
December 13, 2011
Aston Martin built the DB3 almost exclusively for racing between 1951 and 1953, only 10 of them were ever made with the chassis numbers 1-5 going to the factory works team and chassis’ 6-10 going to privateer teams in the UK.
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Ben Branch
December 13, 2011
This one-off 1947 Franay-Bentley Mark VI is widely considered to be the best (and most expensive) post-war Bentley ever made, that stunning and almost Bugatti-esque body was all hand made by French coach builder Franay. The car was first shown at the 1947 Paris Auto Show to world-wide acclaim.
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Ben Branch
December 12, 2011
The Velocette KTT is a milestone in the history of the motorcycle, it was the first production motorcycle to use a foot-shifter (the bikes of the time used hand-shifters) and is credited with setting the trend that all modern production bikes now adhere to.
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Ben Branch
December 12, 2011
Christopher Raeburn is a British designer who’s been making a name for himself taking military surplus gear and repurposing it into new and ethically aware men’s and women’s wear collections.
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Ben Branch
December 10, 2011
This breathtaking video shows the 6-Wheeled Tyrrell P34 belting around the Monaco Grand Prix circuit during a practice session in 1977.
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Ben Branch
December 9, 2011
After finishing the piece on the 1955 Mercedes Benz 300SLR I’ve decided that today I’m going to write about Stirling Moss. This brilliant picture of Moss shows him at an unspecified Formula 1 race in the late 1950’s rehydrating with what appears to be champagne.
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Ben Branch
December 2, 2011
Group B Rally was introduced by the FIA in 1982 and quickly resulted in cars that blew the lid off anything that had ever raced on gravel in the past. The cars were the most technologically advanced vehicles the world had ever seen, they were lightweight, exceedingly powerful and staggeringly unsafe machines that performed, essentially, like a rally version of a Formula 1 car.
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