Pavel Malanik’s life passion has been motorcycles, and not just motorcycles in general, but the creations of the earliest years of motorcycle development, coinciding as it did with the invention of powered flight, and…
Testadoro is a sports/racing car maker whose fame was short lived yet significant in the post-war years of Italian motor racing. Among those who started out racing in Testadoro cars were designers Elio Zagato,…
If your passion is for the motorcycles of the pioneering era of the first decade of the twentieth century then you are faced with seemingly insurmountable problems if you hope to own and ride…
This motorcycle is the North London Garage 2.7 Liter J.A.P. – or perhaps more accurately it’s a brand new version of the bike built by Pavel Malanik who machined and fabricated every part to…
The Suzuki Jimny was an “out of the box” creation, the first compact consumer four-wheel-drive but fully-featured with a dual range transfer case, a ladder frame chassis, and live axles front and back. Its small size and low…
The De Tomaso Mangusta ranks as one of Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro’s most outstanding mid-engined designs. Originally created based on a backbone chassis built for the P70 racing car intended for Can-Am competition, the…
The Bugatti EB110 was a true successor of the original pre-war Bugattis that had been created by Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean. It combined beauty with supercar performance made all the better by…
The Mercedes-Benz 500 SL AMG 5.0 was to be a marriage made in heaven: a joining together of a Mercedes-Benz 500 SL with the best that the mavens at AMG could build into it. It…
The Lancia Delta S4 is a Group B rally car created with the sole purpose of winning events in the World Rally Championship. In order to achieve that it required full time four-wheel-drive so…
This Lancia 037 Group B Works Evolution 1 is one of the cars that made the mid-engine Lancia an icon of Group B’s earlier years. These were the last of the rear wheel drive…
With its long side strakes covering the large air vent on each side of the car, and wedge-shaped profile, the Testarossa was a unique Ferrari. Its low, sleek wedge shape helped it look like…
The Peugeot 205 Turbo 16, in rally form, was a car that largely dominated the last two years of Group B competition – the Group B era being referred to by some as the…
