Saturday, March 8, 2025

DKW Boffins Set Design Trends - The West Australian 3 February 2019



In 2019, my DKW was featured in an article in The West Australian newspaper by Neil Dowling. This was the second of my cars to be written up by Neil.

Tatra article: https://tatrat600.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-car-that-stood-up-to-germany-west.html


Thursday, March 6, 2025

1961 Ariel Arrow Tuning Instructions


The Ariel Arrow was introduced in 1960 and quickly became a popular sportsbike. It wasn't long before people were tuning the engine to draw out event more speed from the bike. Below is a tuning pamphlet from AL Carter Engineering in the UK explaining the principles of two-stroke tuning. They could provide parts or could do the work on the customer's behalf. There is a still a strong racing community among Ariel owners to this day.