The Dynasphere was a unique attempt at rethinking the still relatively new concept of personal, motorised transport. And it was insane.
The fully functioning Dynaspheres in this video were built by Dr J.A. Purves, he called it “spherical locomotion” and openly claimed that it would revolutionise human transportation. It didn’t. But it was a hell of a fun idea.
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The Citi Golf is a car little known outside of its native South Africa, but in its home country its one of the most famous and prolific cars of the past 40 years. Between 1983 and 2009 Volkswagen South Africa made 377,484 Citi Golf models in the Uitenhage factory in the Eastern Cape. South Africa…
The Ducati 900SS is one of the most important road-going superbikes from this period in the Italian company’s history. The 900SS model was a direct descendent of the 750SS which was the motorcycle that took Ducati from being a manufacturer of smaller capacity motorcycles to being the king of the hill after a dominant 1-2…
The Wolverine Original 1000 Mile Boot is handmade in Big Rapids, Michigan using the pattern recreated from the first Wolverine 1000 Mile shoe introduced in 1914. Meaning that this isn’t just the boot your grandfather wore to work, this is the boot your great-grandfather wore to work. Wolverine have been making work boots in the…
Editor’s Note: Due to the personal privacy concerns of the family, we’ve withheld certain names, dates, and locations. A series of unfortunate events led to a sight we only very rarely see in the car world – a dozen Ferraris parked out in a field and forgotten, as though they were little more than a…
This article was written by Per Gabos, the creator of this rather unusual pulsejet-powered motorcycle. The Weltmeister Fictional Experimental Motorcycle The Idea What if the Germans had built experimental pulsejet-powered motorcycles in the mid-1930s – how would these have been made and what would they have looked like? In the 1940s there were already…
The Ferrari 512 BB “Competizione” was the competition version of the standard 512 BB – Ferrari offered a “Le Mans” kit to upgrade standard cars after a flood of requests from serious customers. The development of the racing version was started by Ferrari’s Customer Assistance department in 1978. Once completed the kit would offer significant…
