Many of you know how the plans of Steven Harris and I to participate in the 2009 London to Casablanca Rally were scuppered by the logistic incompetence of the freight company who failed to deliver Mexicar to the start of the event in London. As we executed a series of Hail Mary attempts to intercept Mexicar and make [...]

In January I had the opportunity to pour some much needed attention onto the Australian contingent of my fleet – very gratifying. Thankfully, it has not been since the late 90′s that my collection was spread over 3 continents. These days my relatively stagnant fleet is corralled in two locations and although roughly 12,000km separate [...]

I was watching TV last night, Holmes on Homes, a HGTV production where a well meaning General Contractor (Mr Holmes) responds to write-in pleas from viewers to come and “remediate” their horror building experience. I gather from watching just one episode that the general mantra is to come onto a site and start by identifying all [...]

Last post I covered some very, very early “research” into shifter design. Preceding that in the early 70′s was a very funky double lever, one wheel brake for my hill trolley as an 8 year old……..but that’s another story. This time we are covering some more recent history and forthcoming shifter product developments. In 1999 Windrush purchased [...]

Some times it’s not a matter of where you are heading, but rather – where have you come from?…. Today I had a chance to uncover some relics that long pre-date the first products I ever designed for Porsche’s, but it is air-cooled and it is mostly hand made. In the very best of “competition engineering” [...]