The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance isn’t just about some of the most beautiful cars ever built or restored; it also celebrates some of the best preserved and rarest motorcycles on the planet. The Concours presented bikes in two different classes this year, Prewar American Road Motorcycles and Prewar American Racing Motorcycles, and our friend and […]

Armstrong-Siddeley is one of countless car companies whose models have never been memorialized in small-scale. And now, whether by happenstance or design, we are treated to two – same scale, different eras, different die-cast manufacturers.
The Armstrong-Siddeley Whitley, with the name Base Toys molded into the chassis but sold under the classic Bachmann name, is a […]

No doubt most folks haven’t heard of the Gray, even those folks who have a passing acquaintance with automotive history. Long story short, in 1920, former Packard, Cadillac and Ford bigwigs got together, bought out the Gray Engine Company in Detroit, and announced that they planned to take on Henry Ford’s Model T with a […]