The VW Beetle is an astonishing motor car, the sheer production volume is mind blowing as is the number of ways the model has been customised. Perhaps the coolest custom VWs are the Baja racers, they’re fitted with race suspension, fat tires, specialist engines, bucket seats and roll cages, then sent out to race across one of the Earth’s most inhospitable environments.
I can’t tell you how much I want to join in, at least once.
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Before you get out the pitchforks and flaming torches let me put your minds at ease – no vintage Mongoose Californian BMX bikes were harmed in the production of the motorized bike you see before…
This is a significantly restomodded WW2-era Military Dodge Power Wagon from 1941 – the first year of direct involvement of the United States in the Second World War. Whereas the military Power Wagon, called…
The North American Aviation T-28 was originally developed as a trainer aircraft for the USAF and the US Navy however it saw significant use as a combat aircraft during the Vietnam War where is was…
This is a working 1:2 scale model of the BMW R90S flat twin motorcycle engine, it’s powered by an electrical motor and all the internal mechanical parts move just as they do in the real…
This is the new Runge Armchair, each one is hand built by Christopher Runge Superleicht aluminum tubes which are TIG welded into a framework that forms a comfortable leather upholstered armchair. The Superleicht structure of aluminum…
Editor’s Note: This film is complete, however it is an older documentary copied from a VHS tape and as a result, the resolution is relatively low at 240P. We’ve been unable to find it in…
