"He was the young athletic one, was Apollo.
He jumped in his chariot every morning and dragged the sun across the sky to give us the day.
Well we're no astrophysicists here but if you’re looking for something with "
Having been a small infant at the brief, fleeting years of the Apollo space programme, the moon landings are a hazy physical memory for me, but an object of passionate interest. So when one stumbles on some archive material related to Lunar Rovers, Corvettes and moonshots, it’s bound to take my notice.
"Have you ever fantasised about a MOONROD?
You are not alone.
This week we stumbled upon a beautiful rendering. The moonrod is a perfect vehicle for ripping up the unregulated lunar landscape.
MOONROD is a hopped up, tricked-out version of "
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There’s a strange sort of irony in picking up the latest Corvette Grand Sport from the centre of the Industrial revolution’s Eden. Venerable dealer Bauer Millet – who specialise in all sorts of "
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Carroll Shelby always aspired to cross the pulchritude of nimble, European sports cars with the straight line power and muscle of American hot rods.
So, in 1959 Shelby bought three Corvettes from Chevrolet, shipped them to Italy where Senor Scaglietti clothed "
"The latest Land Rover Defender is just the latest in a long line that can trace a direct descent from the original Series 1 designed by Maurice & Spencer Wilks way back in 1947. Although some things have changed a lot over "
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We've said it before, but there's a lovely simplicity to pure utes. And the first few iterations of the Land Rover are about as Ute as a Ute can be.
The earlier Landies remind us of that immediate post-war time "
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images: Fabien
Whatever you feel about American cars, the Corvette deserves a rightful place in a separate universe of opinion. For some reason, the totemic two seater sits apart from the rest of the Detroit ouvre - displaced by something "
"It’s more than just the motor. It’s the history; the stories the metal tells with each scrape, bump or nick and the memories that the fabrics of the seats weave with their smell and feel. To many, that’"
"Bolt London is a colourful, textured Aladdin's cave of all things bike and all things good. We spent some time with a paragon of London’s creative bike scene.
Bolt London is nestled in an atmospheric stable yard just off "
"Cars are all about people. It’s obvious really - but at times this simple truism can get lost. With the obsession with speed, power, style and design - with the object itself, you can forget that there is nothing "
"Cars change. It’s a simple statement, and an observable one. At the same time, it could be argued they don’t. The steering, the exhaust note, the grip of the tyres to the road – though these may technically vary "
lol…what do those 3 corvettes and the lunar buggy have in common? none of them have ever been on the moon
whilst the lunar rover may have gone “Boing” across the moons surface, it was actually built by “Boeing”!