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Remember orchestral disco music? Remember prog rock? Well, if not, let me clue you up. Both of these much-maligned forms was characterised by the wearing of outrageous costumes, the rocking of over-long solos and excessive hairdos. That, and a strange "
Being in one of those automotive quandaries is great for daydreaming. Old banger and surf wagon/default dadmobile having recently been crushed in the face of an intransigent MOT, there are so many boxes to be ticked in our search for a new vehicle.
The next wagon needs to be rugged, reliable, economical. If it could also be fun, stylish and cool, the all the better.
Thing is, these triads of practicality and rakishness are rarely fused together, and in fact usually pull against one another like the polarities of a magnet.
Then it dawned on me. Minivan. Fave would be an oil crisis era vintage job from Detroit, obvs, but a current Japanese version would suffice. When we stumbled across these delectably colourful examples, then we were convinced.
"The NSU TT is one of those cars whose destiny is to be somehow hip.
We're not sure how it happens, but take a classic three box format - add a utilitarian stripped-down simplicity finish with an EVO version that "
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Of all the interesting stumble-upons that we have, er, stumbled upon recently, we think this beautiful little set of drawings is up there with the best.
Published in France some time in the 1960 the book is a a nice example "
"If you haven't seen Richard Linklater's Oscar-winning film, Boyhood, yet, you should.
The film is brilliant - real achievement at many levels and for many reasons, but for members of this particular parish - the part played by the Pontiac "
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In our ongoing search for the killer-est retro-cool runabout for a family of five with a bit of time on its hands, we recently stumbled upon this very lovely customised Mazda Familia 1200.
The pictures come via the very interesting Nostalgic "
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We stumbled across these catalogue images of the T-topped S130 Fairlady Z this morning and it occurred to us that with the evolution of our aesthetic and the return to cool of all things vaguely 'eighties', it might be time "
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We're huge Honda fans here at Influx. We make no secret of it. We've owned a few Hondas between us over the years, and each vehicle - from monkey bike to Civic estate: has been at heart a passionately engineered, "
"We spent a precious few hours breathing the air with members of the All Terrain Collective - exploring how this community of Land Rover lovers are dealing with imposed isolation.
"I used to just drive little nippy motors,” says Alex "
"Do you remember the first thing that made you dream of motorbikes? For me it was the final sequence of Bruce Brown’s 1972 epic homage to American motorsport On Any Sunday.
I can’t remember how I came across it "
"There are famous explorers and adventurers we have all heard of, and we know their conquests and trips. Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Michael Palin to name some, and when asked about their exploits and why they "
"Cosworth recently teamed up with Gordon Murray Automotive to develop a naturally aspirated, 3.9-litre V12 engine to power the GMA T.50 supercar, which will be the first ever GMA vehicle ever to go into production.
In case you didn’t "
