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The Ladies of the Australian Underworld

Ben Branch January 7, 2016
  • Australian
  • Photography
  • Vintage

The Forensic Photography Archive is a collection of over 130,000 images taken in the 1910s through to the 1960s in jails and police stations…

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MV Agusta 750S America

Ben Branch December 29, 2015
  • Italian
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

The MV Agusta 750S America is a motorcycle that was built to fulfill a request from Chris Garville and Jim Cotherman of Commerce Overseas…

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Ferrari 250 GT Alloy Boano

Ben Branch December 28, 2015
  • Cars
  • Ferrari
  • Luxury
  • Rare
  • Vintage

The Ferrari 250 GT Boano is an exceedingly important car in the history of the Italian marque, although it’ll probably never be as famous…

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Steve McQueen’s Triumph Desert Sled

Ben Branch December 26, 2015
  • American
  • British
  • Triumph
  • Vintage

There is probably no motorcycle more closely associated with Steve McQueen than the Triumph Desert Sled, in fact the iconic images of him roaring…

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Ducati 48 by XTR Pepo

Ben Branch December 24, 2015
  • Ducati
  • Motorcycles
  • Vintage

Ducati started out as a small and nondescript manufacturer of tubes, condensers and other components for use in radios. The original company name was…

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1952 Vincent Black Shadow Special

Ben Branch December 23, 2015
  • British
  • Engineering
  • Motorcycles
  • Racing
  • Vintage

The Vincent Black Shadow is a motorcycle that many in the motorcycling press consider to be the first “superbike”, although that particular term wouldn’t…

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The 1956 Monte Carlo Rally

Ben Branch December 20, 2015
  • Films
  • Racing
  • Rally
  • Vintage

By 1956 the Monte Carlo Rally was already 45 years old, and very well established as one of the world’s pre-eminent road racing events….

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Pontiac Catalina “Swiss Cheese” Super Duty

Ben Branch December 5, 2015
  • American
  • Cars
  • Racing
  • Rare
  • Vintage

This is the last Pontiac Catalina “Swiss Cheese” Super Duty ever made, and exactly how it was snuck through the production process on the…

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Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona

Ben Branch November 28, 2015
  • Cars
  • Ferrari
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 is almost universally known by its unofficial nickname – Ferrari Daytona. Ferrari have never formerly embraced the Daytona label, and even…

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The Magic Midget: MG Racing History

Ben Branch November 8, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Films
  • Vintage

The Magic Midget is an early film from British Leyland about the MG Midget, a car that helped put MG on the map in…

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1934 Invicta 4½-Litre S-Type

Ben Branch November 6, 2015
  • British
  • Cars
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

Invicta was a pre-WWII British automobile company that didn’t survive the turmoil of the mid-20th century, it was a keen competitor with companies like…

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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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