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Ever since it was initially customized, this Model 57 has been wearing the same uncheckered pau ferro Hogue Monogrip . In fact, my very firs...

Dean Ing, writer of numerous SF and thriller yarns as well as a bunch of prepper-oriented nonfiction, passed away last year. His personal c...

I'd had a Wikipedia tab open to the entry on Fort Mandan  for so long...a couple months, at least...that I'd completely forgotten wh...

Apparently they had difficulty keeping his lungs inflated. https://t.co/YuGzSd2HUZ — Tamara K. (@TamSlick) September 6, 2021

Late '80s C4 ragtop C8, still not a common sight '67 C2 convertible The C2 is still my favorite body style... '69 C3 Stingray wi...

...I'd kinda low-key hoped Willard Scott would make it to 100 so Al Roker could wish him a happy birthday on the Today show. .

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Behold the sculpture/structure called "The Vessel" in NYC. Photo from Wikipedia It's probably going to be either closed to th...

There's good reading to be found at Swift, Silent, Deadly . The blogger is a former USMC Special Operator and current paramedic who writ...

Loiter on the patio of one of the restaurants at 54th and College and sooner or later, one of everything will drive by... ...like this very ...

There's an interesting piece at The New Yorker on the reasons behind the FAA investigation into Virgin Galactic's big media event f...

Here's something you don't see every day: An MGC GT. The MGC was a more potent version of the common MGB, substituting an inline six...

The final version of the Fiat 124 Sport Spider was sold as the "Fiat Spider 2000", for its two liter (well, actually 1,995cc) twin...

This is super cool! Langdon Tactical is branching out, with a new offshoot called LTT Discover . This is aimed at normal people who've d...

The CS9 (or Chiefs Special 9) was the smallest of the traditional double-action Smith autoloaders. It was even smaller than the already-comp...

Unfortunately the Nikon S in the middle needs repairs, and the Minolta-35 in the background is probably uneconomically repairable. The camer...

 When the previous administration talked about addressing our trade imbalance with Europe, I thought we were going to try and export more th...

Generally speaking, a '91-'93 Buick Century is the opposite of an interesting car. If a majority of these things didn't spend ...

Back in the Nineties, the first "upgrade" I tended to make to a handgun was to throw a set of Hogues on it. I liked the matte blac...