Ben Branch
September 2, 2019
The team at Flying Tiger Motorcycles have a long history of developing scented candles that people with gasoline in their veins might actually want to buy. We’ve previously featured the team’s Two Stroke Smoke…
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Ben Branch
September 1, 2019
This short time-lapse film captures the restoration of an original 1969 Honda CB750 (Sandcast). Remarkably the restoration was completed by Sam Roberts in a small one-car garage, and he finished the bike to such…
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Ben Branch
August 31, 2019
Morgan Three-Wheelers are among the most beloved British cars in the world. It’s rare to meet someone who doesn’t love them or at the very least want to drive one, and the Morgan Motor…
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Ben Branch
August 30, 2019
Above image used for display purposes only, courtesy of Ferrari. It isn’t every day that a Ferrari F40 engine pops up for sale on eBay, it’s likely targeted at current or prospective F40 owners…
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Ben Branch
August 30, 2019
The Kupilka Firesteel 8 was developed in collaboration with Karu Survival, a company that specialises in teaching bushcraft and survival skills in Finland. With nothing more than a Firesteel 8 and some dry tinder…
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Ben Branch
August 29, 2019
In 1957 John Bond, the editor and owner of Road & Track Magazine, published a cover story on the Byers SR100 calling it the “World’s Most Beautiful Sports Car”. In fact, Bond liked the…
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Ben Branch
August 28, 2019
The Harroun Model A-1 was the first production car designed and developed by Ray Harroun, the first man to win the Indianapolis 500 in a car he helped design and build – the legendary…
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Ben Branch
August 27, 2019
The Hoss Fly is a Chevrolet V8-powered barstool created by the team behind the Boss Hoss, an American V8-powered motorcycle that holds the record for having the largest engine of any production motorcycle.
Whereas the Boss Hoss is a series of road legal motorcycles, the Hoss Fly is designed as a non-road legal novelty vehicle that has a top speed of 25 mph, a towing capacity of 2,000 lbs, and it fits neatly into the back of a pickup truck.
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Ben Branch
August 26, 2019
The DUKW 6×6 Amphibious Utility Vehicle is typically just referred to as the “Duck” after its official name “DUKW” – a US Military code for its design: “D” means designed in 1942, “U” means…
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Ben Branch
August 25, 2019
This film from 1950 was created to give Americans a look into what it was like to fly on the then-new Pan American Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. The Stratocruiser was an advanced aircraft for its…
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Nathan Duff
August 24, 2019
This article was written by Nathan Duff, the founder of Retromotive Magazine and a contributor to a number of magazines including Top Gear, CAR, Wheels, and MOTOR. Andrei Shinkarenko likes things that are rare, different…
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Ben Branch
August 23, 2019
The BMW Volkswagen Fikobike is a one-off custom motorcycle built by Dallas oilman Lee Fikes in the autumn of 1967. He had a BMW R60 but its 600cc horizontally opposed twin wasn’t producing as…
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