"We asked Chris Hunter, editor of the world’s largest custom moto website, to select his favourite builders from recent months. So here’s the hand-picked Bike EXIF x Influx Selection: the builders (and bikes) that are reshaping the new "
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Bruce Brown Interview
"Bruce Brown’s creative output has been defined by quality rather than quantity. After making the era-defining surf movie, Endless Summer, in 1966, Brown followed up four years later with On Any Sunday, the most evocative film about riding motorcycles ever "
Of Custom Bikes and Trophy Wives
"The annexation of the most vibrant motorcycle sub-culture in decades didn’t take long. Danish crew the Wrenchmonkees began to get noticed back in 2008, maybe the tail-end of 2007, but 2008 really. That, as far as I’m concerned, is Year Zero "
Dan Gurney: The Boy in The Bubble.
"He was the first to win races in four classes- Sports Car, Formula One, NASCAR and Indy Car. And of course, the first to win Le Mans at the wheel of a Ford motor car, his head swathed in that "
A Trunk Road to the Land of Dreams
"In the 1970s there was no fast route north of Barking. No M11 to take you up to Cambridge for the day, no A406 cutting a swathe through Wanstead Flats. To the south there was only marshes and the river. "
Ford Focus RS500 Cosworth
"An electric blue badge burning with neon intensity against a dark background-matte black- like a stealth bomber. That’s what first hits me in the hard morning light at the Ford Heritage Centre whilst signing the release forms for the "
Return to Fordland
"Like the novelist once said: ‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there” An overused line, perhaps, but it couldn’t be truer for the history of the corner of Essex that became Fordland. When Henry T. "
Honda NSX: Mr Miyagi wrought in steel
"When I was 23 Honda loaned me an NSX for a week. To this supercar novice it felt like Mr Miyagi: fearsomely capable, but patient and benign. I drove it and drove it and drove it, and it hard-wired into my "
Honda NSX: The First Time
"You never forget your first time. Since my first drive in a Honda NSX 15 years ago I’ve driven maybe half a dozen others: earlier 3.0-litre cars; the raw, empty, fabulous NSX-R; the post-2002 cars that lost the pop-up lights. "
Roberto Rossellini’s Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupé
" Italian neorealist film director Roberto Rossellini had taste. Not only was he one of the definitive auteurs of post-war European cinema, but he also commissioned a gobsmackingly beautiful car: a 375 MM spyder. You can see by the cut of Rossellini's "
The History of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
"Evolution is the right word. The look of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with latte-sipping men in black rollnecks and everything to do with dirty-handed blokes in overalls. This purposeful product started as a porridge, three-box "
Cruising in the Porsche 964: the 911 underdog
" Not sure why, but the 964 variant of the 911 is a particular favourite of ours. Perhaps it’s because we like the underdog. From the glorious history of Zuffenhausen-wrought auto loveliness, this is probably the designation of the totemic brand that "
The Porsche 550 Spyder: the greatest Porsche of all time?
"When talking about Porsche, it may seem, at first glance, to be impossible to pick out a definitive model. There have been so many classically beautiful editions to have rolled out of the factory that to focus on any single "