"Life used to be simple. I had, after years of yearn, found an almost buddhist calm. Be clear, I wasn’t living a monastic existence: I’d acquired good stuff and plenty of it; got married; co-created a couple of "
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The Desert Sled
"What do you think of when you think of a Desert Sled? The idea is simple. It’s a motorbike that you can ride anywhere. Fast. And it doesn’t necessarily need to be in the desert. It just so "
Bud Ekins: King of California
"He embodied Californian car and bike culture. He jumped the fence in The Great Escape. He employed Evel Knievel. He invented the Baja 1000. He drove the Mustang in Bullitt’s chase.He taught Steve McQueen how to ride fast. Bud "
California Light
"There's something about the light in California. No matter what the time of day, it seems as if the roads, the desert and the ocean beckon you. The place doesn't exist, at least in our minds, without internal combustion. Whether "
Harley-Davidson XLCR 1000: once ignored, now cherished
"We've never been Harley Heads here at Influx Towers. That thumping noise. That vibration. That rough build quality. But of late we've been gushing over Harley's vaguely caffed-out seventies lowrider: the Harley-Davidson XLCR 1000. Nods to cafe racer styling aside, it "
Whatever Happened to Von Dutch?
"Kenny ‘Von Dutch’ Howard, small scale, multi talented craftsman working out of makeshift, jerry rigged workshops becomes ‘vondutch.com’ a million dollar multi- national fashion brand. He hated us all. And we love the myth he created. It’s the "
In with the Hot Rod Crowd
" The Vintage Hot Rod Association isn’t just a club, it’s so much more than that. In America in the 1940s, the beat generation spoke of being “in”. Although almost indefinable, that does go some way to explain the "
Hot Rodding: The British Way
"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
"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 "
Gallery: The Stuttgart School, 911 period
"We take a look at Porsche 911s through the ages - from the 959 to Ruf, limousines and endurance racing. Influx presents a gallery of our favourite promo shots, sales posters, race promotions and more, exploring the glamorous side of one "
Porsche 911: Evolution of a Beautiful Obsession
"What is it that makes the 911 such a beautiful obsession - especially for the male of a certain age? Part of the answer must surely lie with that early 1980s Scalextric Le Mans 24 Hours set featuring those 911 turbos with the "
911 Race Ace: ‘Quick’ Vic Elford
" To say that Vic Elford raced a 911 for the Porsche works rally team is to miss the point. For it was Vic Elford who, pretty much single-handedly, created the Porsche works rally team! So how did an English bloke who "
911 Sportomatic Barn Find
"When we heard there was a rare 911 barn find hidden in the Hertfordshire countryside, we rushed down there to get it on film in all its patinated glory. Dealer Ludovic Parayre will likely put it up for auction in early "