Hesketh wrench

 These wouldn't turn up very often! Unless it was a part of the toolkit of the low mileage Hesketh you bought... Thanks, Derek!

McEvoy Vtwins 1928

 Those long strokes are expensive!

One of my vices is vises, a broken one

Seen on Marketplace. Rather disappointing for something that doesn't look very old or misused... I expect this is shoddy material rather than misuse?

 

NR750 cutaway

 The oval piston street bike. Surely, one of the most exotic production vehicles of all time. Honda made 300 and I bet very few were ever ridden more than a few miles. Said to be the inspiration for the styling of the Ducati 916.

Know your self threading screws...

No mention of the self drilling option.

 

Land yacht

 Wretched excess... Longer, lower, wider, mostly longer...

Stationary steam engine

 Look at those castings. No human included for scale but that's an impressive hunk of iron.

Blowing engine - Wikipedia 

Longines poster; The measure of time

Another great poster from the European art deco era of graphic design. 

Artist: René Bleuer

Sidecar Sunday, missed opportunity

  Back in the 1980s when everyone was overreacting about the 3wheel ATCs, Missile Engineering offered a two wheel conversion kit to convert the machines into proper two wheelers. I never saw the kit back in the day, but to me an obvious project would be to utilize that now-underemployed third wheel to create a sidecar rig for the machine. A bit tongue-in-cheek perhaps, but I wonder if anyone ever did.

Drew discovered that Dirt Wheels tested the machine in 1989 and sent me this. Link here.

 

Sidecar Sunday