KOKUSAI/TACHIKAWA Ta Go – Prototype of Japanese aircraft intended for suicide Kamikaze attacks during World War II. Story By early 1945, Japanese military and political leaders were aware that sooner or later expected an...
Snow Cruiser Idea The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was developed under the direction of famed explorer Admiral Richard Byrd. His second-in-command, Dr. Thomas Poulter, returned from a previous (1934) Antarctic expedition with the idea for...
Blohm & Voss P 170 The Blohm & Voss P 170 was a three-engined unarmed fast bomber and ground-attack aircraft project proposed by the aircraft manufacturer Blohm & Voss to the Luftwaffe during the...
James D. Mooney, president and board chairman of Willys-Overland Motors, announces the “introduction of a new jeep station wagon” describing it as a “people’s car.” Indeed, the new 2WD, all-steel station wagon boasted easy...
This is the reproduction of a corner of an imaginary garage as we could have seen it in any suburb of any Italian city in the early 1960s. Then as now, to repair a...
Fiat Panda The Fiat Panda is a front- and all-wheel-drive, five-passenger city car manufactured and marketed by Fiat, now in its third generation. The first generation Panda (Mk1 1980-1986 & Mk2 1986-2003), introduced in...
Yamaha WR450F 2021 model year The WR450F’s already potent engine was treated to a host of go-fast refinements, including new combustion chamber geometry with steeper valve angles, more aggressive cam profiles, a higher compression...
FJ3 Fleetvan Willys Motors introduced the two-wheel drive Fleetvan in 1961. It was designed for light-duty, ice-cream trucks and multi-stop applications such as postal delivery. “Practical” was the operative word known to describe FJ...
Aviatik D.1 The Aviatik (Berg) D.I, was a single-engine, single-seater biplane fighter that was developed and manufactured by the Austro-Hungarian branch of German aircraft company Aviatik. It was also known as Berg D.I or...
Pompei Pompei was an ancient city located in what is now the comune of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompei was buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20...
Royal Mail Coach Service – In its day the mail coach was the aristocrat of the road, and all other traffic had to give way to the King’s mail. Dozens of routes covered the...
