Ben Branch
August 2, 2017
Phil Walker designed the 7R with a single cylinder, single overhead camshaft engine – based on the lessons learned with the pre-WWII “cammy” engines. The chain driven overhead camshaft gives the 7Rs engine a distinctive look on the timing side, with an oftentimes gold-painted timing and cam cover sitting below the AJS fuel tank with its large knee indents on either side.
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Ben Branch
August 2, 2017
Each pair of Urban Shepherds boots are handmade using traditional methods in a Portuguese workshop that began making boots for the working class in…
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Ben Branch
August 1, 2017
Vehicles used in James Bond films typically become almost as iconic as 007 himself, the most famous are the Astons of course, but he’s…
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Ben Branch
August 1, 2017
The Whiskey Havana Blair sunglasses by Pacifico Optical have handcrafted frames made from cellulose acetate sourced from Italy, with Italian-engineered 5-joint nickel silver rivet…
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Ben Branch
July 31, 2017
The Aston Martin DBR1 is likely to become the single most expensive British car of all time when it rolls across the auction block…
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Ben Branch
July 31, 2017
Bohemian Guitars is a small Atlanta-based company with South African founders, they became enamored with the homemade guitars that were being created in the…
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Ben Branch
July 29, 2017
The company we now know as Ducati was founded in 1926 by Antonio Ducati and his three sons, Adriano, Marcello, and Bruno, and it…
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Ben Branch
July 28, 2017
Meet Riccardo Casarini The-Marvel-Ous is the work of Riccardo Casarini, an Italian motorcycle builder who grew up in a family of classic car restorers in…
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Ben Branch
July 28, 2017
Tire technology has come an extraordinarily long way over the past few decades, hundreds of millions have been spent developing better tire compounds and…
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Ben Branch
July 27, 2017
With 306 bhp and a kerb weight just a smidge over 1000 kilograms, the 1964 Shelby Cobra with its 289 cubic inch Ford V8…
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Ben Branch
July 27, 2017
The Bell Moto-3 Helmet is essentially a re-release of the original helmet from the 1970s, however Bell have incorporated all of the modern safety…
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Ben Branch
July 26, 2017
I don’t think there’ll be any significant protest when I say that speedboat design peaked in the mid-20th century. Of course, the materials, engines,…
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