Ben Branch
November 4, 2015
The Moto Guzzi California is a motorcycle that should be significantly more famous than it actually is. The first California was released in 1971 after extensive consultation and testing with the Los Angeles Police…
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Ben Branch
November 4, 2015
Fly Fishing has been around for at least 2000 years, it was described by the Roman Claudius Aeolians in 200 AD, but there are indications that it had already been around for hundreds of years…
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Ben Branch
November 3, 2015
The Ford RS200 rose from the ashes of the ill-fated Escort RS 1700T project – after a successful rally programme based around the earlier Escorts, Ford knew it needed a revolutionary new car to…
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Ben Branch
November 3, 2015
The Onewheel is an electric skateboard with a difference – it only has one wheel. Although the sharper amongst you may have surmised that from the name. With a top speed of 15 mph,…
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Ben Branch
November 2, 2015
The Doryu Camera Company developed two generations of pistol cameras for police and surveillance tasks – although exactly why the police would need a camera that looks like a semi-automatic handgun is lost on…
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Ben Branch
November 1, 2015
Land Rover: A 50 Year Adventure is a comprehensive history of Land Rover from its humble beginnings to the modern day, and it manages to fit it all in in under 60 minutes. The…
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Ben Branch
October 31, 2015
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 as well as a few other innovations, like the column…
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Ben Branch
October 31, 2015
The Bellroy Note Sleeve Wallet is a minimalist leather wallet developed to avoid the bulging back pocket that we’ve all suffered from at some point. It has space for between 3 and 11 cards,…
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Ben Branch
October 30, 2015
The BMW M1 was a radical departure from business as usual for BMW, famous at the time for building more practical cars the M1 was a dynamic Giugiaro-designed supercar that could rub shoulders with…
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Ben Branch
October 29, 2015
The Triumph Thruxton R is the top of the line model from the new generation of Bonneville-based motorcycles from the popular British marque. Only introduced in the last day or so, the new models…
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Ben Branch
October 29, 2015
The Hobo Nickel is the American version of an art form that began to appear in the mid-1700s as sailors, travellers and railwaymen whiled away the hours by carving their coins into miniature works…
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Ben Branch
October 28, 2015
The De Tomaso Mangusta was famously named after the Mongoose – the only animal that hunts and kills cobras. It’s widely thought that the name was a friendly jab at Carroll Shelby, whose AC…
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