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MV Agusta Bol d’Or by Walt Siegl

Ben Branch November 26, 2015
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Italian
  • Motorcycles

Words by Walt Siegl. I always had a soft spot for the raw brutishness of 80s Endurance bikes, and I wanted to use an…

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Rolls-Royce V8 Coffee Table

Ben Branch November 25, 2015
  • British
  • Engineering
  • Gear
  • Home

Prior to the takeover by BMW in 1998 Rolls-Royce made use of the L Series V8, an engine that had been developed in the…

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Jet-Hot Double Down By Fuller Moto

Ben Branch November 24, 2015
  • American
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Hot Rods

The Jet-Hot Double Down is a vehicle that you’ve likely seen before. This time however there’s some new information about it that’ll likely interest…

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Bluebird Wallpaper

Ben Branch November 7, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Wallpapers

On the 17th of July 1964, Donald Campbell shattered the world land speed record with an average speed of 403.10 mph (648.73 kph) across…

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Onewheel Electric Skateboard

Ben Branch November 3, 2015
  • American
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Gear

The Onewheel is an electric skateboard with a difference – it only has one wheel. Although the sharper amongst you may have surmised that…

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The 1939 New York World’s Fair Ford Cutaway Chassis

Ben Branch October 31, 2015
  • American
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Ford
  • Vintage

This Ford cutaway chassis was created for the 1939 New York World’s Fair, it was intended as a showcase of Ford’s famous Flathead V8…

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Who is your Chassis and What Does it Do?

Ben Branch October 25, 2015
  • American
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Films
  • Racing

/ENGINEERED is a new technical series by the talented team behind /DRIVE, this episode is titled Who is your Chassis and What Does it…

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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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Ikara Anti-Submarine Tail Fin

Ben Branch October 12, 2015
  • Australian
  • Engineering
  • Military

The Ikara was an Australian anti-submarine missile developed in 1959, over the course of its life it would be used by the Australian, British,…

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Münch Mammoth

Ben Branch October 1, 2015
  • Engineering
  • German
  • Motorcycles
  • Rare

Friedl Münch began hand building the Mammoth in 1966 after receiving a special order from Jean Murit – a former motorcycle sidecar racer and a…

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Dobbertin’s Nova

Ben Branch August 25, 2015
  • American
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Vintage

Many of us grew up in an era when car magazines ruled the four-wheeled world, a time when the word “digital” was only used to…

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Zaeta 530 SE Flat Tracker

Ben Branch August 17, 2015
  • Engineering
  • Italian
  • Racing

The Zaeta 530 DT is the two-wheeled answer to the question what would happen if the Italians decided to build a flat tracker? Dirt track racing…

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