Celluloid doesn’t get much better than this, The Italian Job is essential viewing for any self-respecting red-blooded male. Featuring Michael Caine and Noel Coward the 1969 comic caper centres around a gold heist in Turin, Italy.
This is the full, unedited car chase scene that entered the film into the annals of 60s pop-culture, with music by Quincy Jones (of course).
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This World War II training film covers pilot familiarization with the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, one of the most prolific and beloved fighter/bombers of the war. The P-47 Thunderbolt was famous for two things – they were almost impossible to shoot down, and they carried enough firepower to take out trains, tanks, trucks, and armored vehicles…
It isn’t every day you get the chance to buy Sir Paul McCartney’s original Mini Cooper S. The Harold Radford & Co Mini Cooper S Radford was famous for impeccable coachbuilt Bentleys, typically for country gentlemen, in either shooting brake or estate wagon configuration with acres of walnut, leather, and plush carpeting. It caused quite…
The BMW 3.0 CSi is unquestionably one of the most beautiful cars of its era, it was developed to compete with the finest grand touring cars being built by the British and the Italians, and it proved a worthy adversary on the roads and race tracks of Europe. The BMW 3.0 CSi The BMW 3.0…
The Bamford GMT is an in-house design from the British company that is probably best described as the AMG of the watch world. Since being founded by George Bamford the company has gone from strength to strength, welcoming clients into their townhouse headquarters called The Hive in the high-end London neighbourhood of Mayfair. Bamford made…
To say that the Greeves Challenger, and all Greeves motorcycles, were ahead of their time is to significantly understate the remarkable foresight of Bert Greeves and his lightweight two-stroke off-road racing motorcycles. Bert developed the first examples of his scrambles and trials machines in 1952, almost 20 years before lightweight two-stroke motorcycles would rise to…
This original 1956 Porsche 356 A training chassis was developed to give American mechanics a detailed understanding of Porsche running gear and engineering – most of which would have been a little unusual to them back in the mid-1950s when Porsche was still a relatively new company. Interestingly the suspension arrangement differs between the left…
