Ben Branch February 27, 2021

This is one of the original engines used by McLaren during the development of the McLaren Senna, the most recent member of the company’s “Ultimate Series“, alongside the F1 and the P1. McLaren engineers and…
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Ben Branch January 16, 2021

This is an original Ferrari 3000 (044/1) V12 Formula 1 engine from the 1995 season, it’s listed as having been fitted to a 1995 Ferrari F412 T2 F1 car, a model driven by both Jean Alesi…
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Ben Branch January 7, 2021

The Cosworth DFV is the most successful Formula 1 engine of all time, and probably the most successful top tier racing engines all time. Astonishingly, the Cosworth DFV powered 10 Formula One Constructors’ Champions,…
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Ben Branch December 19, 2020

The engine you see here occupies a special place in Corvette history, it’s the first production LT5 engine that was manufactured by Mercury Marine for the C4 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1. The LT5 V8 engine…
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Ben Branch December 12, 2020

The Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 is one of the most famous engines of the 20th century and almost certainly the most famous of the Second World War – what a lot of people don’t know is…
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Ben Branch November 21, 2020

The Dodge Ram SRT-10 8.3 litre V10 was sourced from the Dodge Viper and fitted to the Dodge Ram SRT-10 pickup truck line – available as both a regular cab and a quad cab….
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Ben Branch November 14, 2020

This is a complete Porsche 911 E 2.4 litre MFI engine that has been rebuilt by Mittelmotor GmbH Bochum Porsche Motorentechnik in Germany. Whereas the original 911 E MFI engine produced 165 hp this one…
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Ben Branch October 3, 2020

After some quick research I’m convinced that this Lincoln V12 is the cheapest V12 for sale anywhere on earth at this moment in time. The reason it’s so cheap is slightly tragic, a little…
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Ben Branch September 21, 2020

This is a complete Ferrari 612 Scaglietti V12, it’s listed as being a running engine from a car with 40,637 kms on the odometer (which works out to approximately 25,250 miles) and it’s all…
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Ben Branch September 12, 2020

The Rolls-Royce Griffon is an aircraft engine that was developed as an evolution of the legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin – the engine that powered a staggering array of aircraft during the Second World War including the Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang (in Packard-licensed form of course).
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Ben Branch September 5, 2020

The story of the WWII-era Radioplanes can’t be told without mentioning that it was in the Radioplane factory that Marilyn Monroe was discovered, thanks in part to future US President Ronald Reagan who was then…
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Ben Branch September 2, 2020

This VW Beetle flat-four boxer engine kit by Franzis, it’s an officially licensed 1:4 scale model of the air-cooled Volkswagen engine that was in production from 1949 to 1953. Impressively the model has fully functional…
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