Ben Branch
July 21, 2011
I love unusual, vintage racing. Don’t get me wrong, I love the more common varieties of vintage racing as well but there’s a special place in my heart for people who race weird or unusual machines. Like wooden V8 hydroplanes.
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Ben Branch
July 20, 2011
This is just a sneak-peak of the new WrenchMonkees bike, they say it still needs paint but I’m thinking it looks just about perfect as is.
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Ben Branch
July 20, 2011
I can’t help but love the work of Hide Motorcycles, this bike, named the Genuine Speed Sportster is a great example of the Japanese garage’s work.
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Ben Branch
July 19, 2011
This stunning eBay find, coming to you from the always awesome 1A Blog, is currently listed on eBay for just $13,995 (Buy It Now Price). The remarkable vehicle started life as a Tucker snow vehicle
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Ben Branch
July 19, 2011
I’m always excited when a new Kiez Kustoms bike comes along, Felix’s style is reminiscent of the café racer builders of the early ’60s in that his emphasis is speed and handling first with aesthetics second.
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Ben Branch
July 17, 2011
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.
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Ben Branch
July 16, 2011
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.
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Ben Branch
July 15, 2011
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
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Ben Branch
July 14, 2011
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.
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Ben Branch
July 13, 2011
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)
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Ben Branch
July 12, 2011
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.
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Ben Branch
July 10, 2011
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.
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