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1972 Nissan Skyline H/T 2000GT-R

Ben Branch June 11, 2014
  • Cars
  • Engineering
  • Japanese
  • Retro

The Nissan Skyline is a motor car that owes much of its popularity in western culture to video games like Gran Turismo – at the time the Skyline had never been officially imported into…

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Taylor Stitch Townsend Jeans

Ben Branch June 10, 2014
  • American
  • Clothing
  • Design
  • Gear
  • Japanese
  • Safety

A good pair of jeans can change your life, and in this day and age the humble denim trouser has overtaken the suit as the defacto uniform of the creative classes. The Townsend Jeans…

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Kawasaki W650 by Revival Cycles

Ben Branch May 22, 2014
  • American
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Kawasaki
  • Retro

Revival Cycles is a long time favourite of ours, the team of custom motorcycle builders based in Austin, Texas have produced some of the most eye-catching American customs in recent history. When we discovered…

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A Classic Honda CB550 Cafe Racer

Ben Branch May 6, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Honda
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles

The Honda CB550 is a motorcycle often overlooked in favour of its larger sibling, the CB750. This seems like a bit of a shame to me as there’s a lot to be said for the…

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Yamaha SR250 by Auto Fabrica

Ben Branch April 7, 2014
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha SR250 is the hardworking little brother of the inimitable SR400/SR500, many of the components are shared between the SR models making repairs simple and the straight-forward mechanical set up of the SR…

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Yamaha XS650 Custom by Thrive Motorcycle

Ben Branch March 18, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Design
  • Indonesian
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Yamaha XS650 is a remarkably versatile motorcycle, we’ve seen them customised into cafe racers, flat trackers, choppers, bobbers, scramblers and just about anything else you can possibly imagine. That said, I think it’s…

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Yuri by Lanakila MacNaughton

Ben Branch March 6, 2014
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Harley-Davidson
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Photography

Yuri is a native of Japan with a deep and abiding love for air-cooled American motorcycles, she’s never driven a car or ridden a scooter but she has ridden a hard-tail 1979 Shovelhead custom…

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Against All Odds: The Datsun 1600/510

Ben Branch February 23, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Films
  • Japanese
  • Racing

  Against All Odds is the story of the joint assault on the SCCA Trans Am 2.5 Series title by Datsun and BRE Racing that began in 1971, the team would use the Datsun…

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Honda CB250 by Exesor Motorcycles

Ben Branch January 17, 2014
  • Cafe Racers
  • Custom Motorcycles
  • Engineering
  • Honda
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

This custom Honda CB250 by Exesor Motorcycles is one of the most well engineered parts-bin specials we’ve ever seen here on Silodrome. It’s fitted with a Honda CB360 engine that’s been bored out to…

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1986 Toyota Celica IMSA GTO

Ben Branch January 7, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Japanese
  • Racing
  • Retro

This 1986 Toyota Celica IMSA GTO is the brainchild of AAR (All American Racing) and Toyota, it was designed and built to race in the GTO (Grand Touring Over 2.5L) class in 1986 where…

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1986 Honda VF1000R

Ben Branch December 29, 2013
  • Honda
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Retro

The Honda VF1000R is considered by many to be the best of the now classic VF1000 model line produced by Honda between 1984 and 1988, the VF1000R was the first of the VF line…

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Dale Singleton’s Yamaha TZ750

Ben Branch December 16, 2013
  • American
  • Japanese
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Vintage
  • Yamaha

The Yamaha TZ750 is a motorcycle that anyone who watched motorcycle racing during the 1970s will remember well, the machine was an absolute monster and quickly gained a reputation for whitening the face of…

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