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The dirty little secret about the Aston Martin in the James Bond movies.
Now here’s something interesting you didn’t think of (well I didn’t think of it anyway) about James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 in Goldfinger, the precursor to a heap of highly […]
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How to rescue an old record from a dump and clean it up.
It would surprise no one who saw them that the songs on Australia’s early rock and roll television programs were mimed. What surprised me was how this was done. The […]
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Car of the week #1: Whatever happened to Maybach?
There are two types of Maybach; the originals, creations of Wilhelm Maybach and his son Karl after they started their company in 1909, and the ones created by Daimler when […]
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Question: Where are you?
Q Where are you? My husband reads the Age for your green guide articles but you’ve gone missing. Now he’s sad and I can’t cope with a sad husband Kristine […]
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Things you didn’t know about motoring #1: The original ‘no smoking’ car.
The original Range Rover, released in 1970, got clear through to prototype stage before anyone realised there was no ashtray in it. The design team had forgotten to include […]
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UPDATE: How the king of cool makes metal precious.
It is, arguably, the best car chase sequence ever filmed, not least because the Mustang involved was driven by the king of cool himself, Steve McQueen. And now the Highland […]
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Would you buy these headphones?
I have come to accept that there are things my brain will never grasp. E=mc2 for example. American football comes to mind. Anything said by an engineer. But the big […]
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Ford gets a caffeine boost. From McDonalds.
Probably the last thing the latest Ford Mustang needs is a shot of caffeine, but that’s what it’s getting. Right in the headlight. Ford has discovered that coffee chaff, the […]
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Road rage is highest in Peace Avenue.
The main street running through Ulaanbaatar, in Mongolia, is called Peace Avenue. Don’t be fooled. This city of one-and-a-half million has the highest incidence of road rage of any major […]
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Speeding Estonians and just deserts.
They’ve found a new way to punish speeding motorists in Estonia. You’re going to love this idea. Let’s say you’re late for an appointment and you’re driving fast, and you get […]