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Hot Rodding: The British Way

Cars Culture

"The hot rod story. So it goes. Dry lake beds. Endless deserts. Hopped up Southern California jalopies. Timing associations. Engineer boots, pocket tees, chinos and heavy selvedge. A miasma of Americana. All those GIs returned from the war with a "

The Mongrel

Cars People Culture

"photography Michael Fordham/influx Harley Peters is 22 years old. But the car that is at the centre of his life has components that were manufactured before his granddad was born. "It started with my old man really," he tells me "

Wilzig Racing Manor

Bikes People Culture

"OK. So you sell your financial business for a little under a billion dollars. You're a bit of a petrolhead. What do you do? You build a race track in your back yard, of course. John Wilzig is such a "

Honda Motocompo

Bikes Culture

"Here's something that was lost to my cultural memory. Until a few moments ago. I was a madness obsessive. And the proud and illegal owner of a moped. When the two came together in the early eighties, I didn't even "

Porsche 928: The Movie Star Car

Cars Culture

"Think Porsches in films. There must be loads right? But try to bring them to mind, or worse put them on paper, and suddenly they seem thin on the celluloid ground. Easily the most memorable is not a 911 but its "

Mr. 911: Magnus Walker

Cars People Culture

"I first fell in love with Porsche as a 10 year old kid during a visit to the London Earls Court Motor show back in 1977. The car that started the love affair was a white Martini 930 Turbo that was on the "

Goodbye, Pork Pie: Mini

Cars Culture

"This is quite possibly the most politically incorrect road movie ever made. Coming straight out of 1981 New Zealand, what would you expect? The story goes like this: ne'erdowell Gerry from the North Island hires a yellow mini using a stolen "

Lego X Toyota Land Cruiser

Cars Culture

"Do you reckon Lego should make a production version of this amazing little classic Toyota Land Cruiser? Of course you do. And you can vote for it here. The Land Cruiser model project, made from over 1,700 individual pieces, was the "

Lexus x Star Wars

Cars Culture

"OK, so this post is little more than an excuse to share an epicly cool Star Wars graphic. But the imagined tech behind not only the Landspeeder used by Luke Skywalker, but of course the hoverboard that appeared in Back "

Syd Mead: Auto-Futurist

People Culture

"Syd Mead is a self-created industry. He deals in colour, line and imagination - and his vision of an automotive future has seen his work featured in films like Blade Runner, Tron and Johnny Mnemonic. But we just dig the "

Dirt Quake IV is HERE!

Bikes Culture

"In case you hadn't noticed, there's a lot to be said for the simple joy of racing a motorbike around an oval dirt track. While the noble sport of speedway may be the root of these things, the shale is "