BMW 328 Hommage Concept
The original BMW 328 was built between 1936 and 1940, it was a highly advanced car for the time featuring a space frame chassis, remarkably good handling and a hemispherical combustion chamber engine.
Playland Park Speedway 1949
Love this video, filmed with a hand-held super-8 camera in 1949 it shows the stock car racing at the Playland Park Speedway in Indiana.
Maserati 450S Costin-Zagato Coupé
The 1957 Maserati 450S Costin-Zagato Coupé started life in 1956 as a convertible and was redesigned into a coupé in 1957 by Englishman Frank Costin, the car was built to Costin’s specifications by Zagato in Italy
Tommy Jemison’s 100mph Velocette Record
Tommy Jemison (pictured above) was the foreman of the NSW, Australia Velocette distributor, he raced very successfully and won a number of races including the Australian and NSW GP & TT 250 races at Bathurst,NSW in the years 1934, 1935, 1936 and 1938.
Long Sleeved Tee by Lotus Originals
Lotus is back in a big way. The company is rising from a small British car maker to potentially one of the biggest sports car builders in the world with the announcement of 6 new models in Paris last year (I’ll be needing the the Elan)
Motorcycle Road Race – Indiana 1919
This great film features some of the top motorcycle racers of the day including Teddy Carroll, Red Parkhurst, Otto Walker, and Ralph Hepburn. If you watch till the end you’ll see Walter Davidson, President and co-founder of Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
1972 Harley-Davidson XR750 Flat Tracker
This all-original ’72 Harley-Davidson XR750 Flat Tracker was originally owned by AMA racer Davey Camlin, he used it as his primary race bike as an amateur and, then sold it when he went professional in order to buy a new XR.
1933 MG Magnette K-Type
This stunning 1933 MG Magnette K-Type was due to hit the Bonham’s auction block before being mysteriously withdrawn, rumour has it the owner had a change of heart and decided to keep it in his collection. It isn’t hard to see why.
Lamborghini Miura Factory – 1968
The Lamborghini Miura is without question one of the most beautiful cars ever made, the long flowing lines directly influenced countless cars made since and the model is widely credited with making Lamborghini a global player in the luxury-sportscar market.
Aerochute – Powered Parachutes
Powered parachutes are one of the safest ways of taking to the air, the parachute acts like a wing and provides lift but it also provides a huge safety benefit, if anything goes wrong you already have a deployed parachute overhead, so you just drift down to the ground.
McDeeb Thruxton
McDeeb is the nickname given to Fabrizio Di Bella, a lover of British motorcycles based in Italy. The official name of the motorcycle builders business is Classic Farm Motorcycles however
1974 Harley Davidson RR350
Originally titled the Aermacchi-Harley Davidson RR350, Harley had bought control from Aermacchi in 1974. The RR350 is a master-class in ’70s bike design, I’d love to see Harley Davidson step away from its almost Adderall-level focus on lumbering V-Twins.