Ben Branch
February 29, 2012
The Vought F4U Corsair was originally built in 1940 and went on to see the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history. During WWII, the Japanese Zero pilots considered the Corsair to be formidable, with many fearing it far more than the P-51 Mustang.
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Ben Branch
February 28, 2012
This bike, named “Egg Salad” for reasons that escape me, is powered by a 500cc Rotax engine, it has a Knight Flat Track Frame, it doesn’t have a kick or centre stand in order to keep weight down and it doesn’t have an electric or kick starter for the same reason.
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Ben Branch
February 28, 2012
This retro motorcycle jacket, dubbed “The Mission Jacket” is made from 1.1mm full grain cowhide, has pre-curved sleeves, perforated leather interior trims, a zip + stud front closing mechanism and enough style to feature in it’s own Tarantino film.
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Ben Branch
February 27, 2012
Radical Ducati produces some of the most iconic high-performance custom motorcycles in the world, many bike builders around the world make great looking bikes, Rad Ducati makes great looking bikes that fly.
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Ben Branch
February 27, 2012
It isn’t often that I find myself in a tie or any form of clothing that has cuffs requiring links, that said, I’d be a damn sight more likely to get dressed up if I had this set of cuff links and tie bar handy.
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Ben Branch
February 26, 2012
The Hookie is a Dresden based custom motorcycle garage run by a friendly chap by the name of Nico, we featured his Harley custom dubbed The Hookie #2 early last year and since then he’s been hard at work designing a unique line of clothing.
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Ben Branch
February 25, 2012
The 1968 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33/2 ‘Daytona’ was created to race in highly competitive endurance events, the 2.2 litre Porsche 907 had been dominating these races and so Alfa Romeo decided to race a 2.0 litre model in the class just below the 907.
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Ben Branch
February 25, 2012
Fuel Bespoke Motorcycles is a Barcelona based garage dedicated to building that new, 21st century breed of custom motorcycle. We featured their beautiful BMW R 100 Scram last year and since then, the team at Fuel have turned some of their artistic inclination towards clothing, specifically, tees.
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Ben Branch
February 25, 2012
The plastics revolution in the 20th century will probably be looked back on by historians as a good thing over all, though plastic products are difficult to dispose of they did allow us to build a lot of very cool new things.
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Ben Branch
February 24, 2012
In 1950, 2 years after his more-famous-than-Jesus swim-suit speed run at Bonneville, Rollie Free returned to the salt to reclaim his title. This time he arrived with a fully enclosed Vincent Black Lightning, a first attempt at streamlining by Rollie and on day 2 he made his first full-speed run.
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Ben Branch
February 23, 2012
The Bugatti 100P is a glimpse into what might have been, this groundbreaking and deeply revolutionary plane was developed by Ettore Bugatti and Louis de Monge in Paris in 1937, with…
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Ben Branch
February 23, 2012
The Oldsmobile Rocket 88 was produced from 1949 till 1999, it is widely credited with launching Oldsmobile out of it’s staid reputation in the 1940s into a new, NASCAR dominating behemoth, often pointed to as the pre-cursor to the muscle cars that began appearing in the 1960s.
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