" Stumbled upon this beautiful little piece of artwork today. What appeals to us about it is the way it skillfully re-imagines the whole world of the Hells Angels by using a simple but effect graphic treatment and a bit of "
Le Mans ’77
" We're suckers for onboard footage. And if this footage is from the days before modern tech took all the fun out of it, then so much more the better. We reckon this sort of juddery, intense photography comes closer to "
Jimmy Dean and The Curse of Little B***ard
" There’s been a lot of spooky stuff written over the half century that has passed since James Dean’s fatal car crash. Whichever way you choose to look at the glamorous cult of death surrounding the star of Rebel "
Radical Ferrari Render
" These days the world of digital car design can inspire the imagination whilst confusing the senses. The render technology jockeyed by students in hi-end design academies is so powerful and the execution of design projects so exact you would swear "
MG EX-E Concept
" The MG EX - E was rather ahead of its time. Used as a test bed for future AR platforms, you can still see the embryonic MGF embedded deep in its spacey lines. And you don't have to squint to "
Honda – Mentalism
" 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, "
Renault 5 Turbo
" You're a family man. You're used to chugging around in a variety of wagons. Your automotive lot is transporting the nippers around betwitxt football training, school and ballet classes. You fantasise every now and then about the joys of irresponsibility "
Your Car Was Born in the Seventies
"Your car was born in the 1970s. Car-nerds will argue about this, but the seventies mark the start of the modern era for the motor car. The economic and energy crises of the decade shook the car-world hard. It had "
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Stars of the Seventies
" 1970 Plymouth Superbird A few more muscle cars trickled out in ’71, but the Superbird’s massive rear wing marks the literal high-point of muscle car design, and also its swan-song. 1971 Lamborghini Countach concept Why are all the best supercars – McLaren F1, "
Influx people: Seventies Stylists
"Chris Ryan Chris Ryan is Cornish based surfer, musician and collector of offbeat vehicles. His Beach Buggy is a creation from the early 70s - with fibreglass frame strapped onto a ’61 beetle chassis. The motor is your standard 1500 VW job. ""
Pops Yoshimura and the Birth of Muscle
"Look, I’m a stick in the mud. Not only that, I’m inconsistent. On one hand, bullets of nervous sweat pop up on my forehead the minute my home Wi-Fi hiccups, on the other I dream of all electronics, "
1976: Hunt vs Lauda
"The James Hunt versus Niki Lauda battle for the 1976 world championship elevated motor racing from the back pages to the front. Hunt was the tall, blond, good-looking British public schoolboy, who liked a ciggy and a beer and wore ‘sex-the "
All Hail The Wedge
"If any single design concept is synonymous with the 1970s it must be The Wedge. Redolent of an imagined space-age future, the design was conceived at the end of the 1960s by epoch making designers like Giugiaro and Gandini. It "
Maserati A6G Zagato
" Sometimes a car stops you in its tracks through its sheer beauty. It happened this morning, and we had to share. This latest aesthetic epiphany occurred in the midst of a discussion about whether or not Zagato had made any "
James Hunt ‘Press Conference’, 1976
" They don't make them like James any more. He was legendarily chaotic. Before each race he was terrified at the prospect of crashing and burning and dying. He was a unrepentant smoker, drinker and party guy. But he could drive. "
