Sidecar Sunday

     Officers from the West Riding Police Force in Yorkshire taking delivery of seven new Brough combinations from the Brough Superior factory in Nottingham. 1933

License plate set

 In Ontario, 1966 was the last year the Ministry of Transport required 3 license plates on a motorcycle. One on each side of the front wheel and of course the rear. Predictably, complete sets are rare these days and rather expensive.

Honda Motocampo

 The Motocampo was a 50cc folding scooter made by Honda as a an option for the 1981-83 JDM Honda City. The unit fit in the trunk and was intended to be used as a "last mile" commuter. 53,000 units were made and they are considered to be a collector item now. They were never imported in North America.

Moko Lesney #12 Land Rover

These were made between 1955 and 1959.  Originally sold and distributed by Moko (a partnership between Lesney  (Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith) and Moses Kohnstam.
 

Cutaway from How to Keep Your Volkswagen Rabbit Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.

Not your average cutaway drawing of the VW Rabbit engine and the illustrator is not R. Crumb. This was an illustration Peter Aschwanden did for the book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Rabbit Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot. by Richard Sealey. It followed an earlier book by John Muir called How to Keep your Volkswagen Alive with technical drawings done in the same 60's counterculture style.  His drawings are accurate but not technical in nature, they really make mechanical work seem less intimidating. Anyone in the sixties or seventies trying to keep his VW running would have felt completely at home with the style. 

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Hemmings

 

1927 McEvoy Special

Peter McManus, Motorcycles, Merlins, and Mosquitos, Breedon Books 2009

 The caption described this as a 1927 McEvoy later fitted with a V twin made up of two JAP alcohol speedway cylinders on a common crankcase making 78 hp. It was apparently raced by George Patchett but no pictures are turning up...

1931 Hupmobile

 

Shelby Cobra for sale

 Doc Holliday, seriously?

1971 Yamaha 90

The gamechanging dual purpose 250cc DT-1 comes in a smaller size.

 

Diamond wrench

 The wrench seems to be of reasonable quality, the raised panels look familiar but the stamping seems crude and overdone. I don't think it's from the Diamond Calk company. and I suspect it's a product from India or China though the CoO is not marked.