"A long dormant daydream we’ve had about crossing the planet in a 911 was awakened this week when we stumbled across this crazy dope custom 911 built for the gritty byways of the planet. This beautiful custom build, dreamt up by "
GTO: John DeLorean
"‘John Zachary DeLorean, engineer, car maker and conman, born January 6 1925; died March 19 2005’ So read the Guardian obituary of that day. In Britain we remember him as the maker of the DeLorean - his eponymous, stainless steel, Belfast-born beast that tucked "
1965 Pontiac GTO
"A very good friend of mine got turned on to the idea of an early muscle car and I helped him to find this one after quite a search. That was 2006 and when we drove it home I told him "
GTO: Gran Turismo Omologato
"Gran Turismo Omologato. There's something in the vowel-heavy phrase that gets the juices going. Something in the way it rolls around your mouth. Only Enzo Ferrari could have coined such a phrase, when you think about it. 3 words. Nine syllables. "
Rarity: Triumph Vitesse Sports 6
"There's something special about the Triumph Vitesse. And this is a super-rare 'Sports 6' monikered US export version. These endlessly intriguing sports cars were of course products of the mind of Michelotti - and that strange fusion of Italian flair "
Super Monkey Bike
"pics Michael Fordham/Influx We stumbled upon this cool little shop recently specialising in pimped Monkey Bikes. Spymonkey is a one man operation run by Hiro-san in Shizuoka, just outside Tokyo. Hiro's idea is simple. Take a Monkey Bike and "
Land Cruiser Legends
"When the zombie apocalypse arrives we'd rather be in a Cruiser than a Rover. Devotees argue they're stronger than the Land Rover. More reliable than the Land Rover. Better designed than the Land Rover. They might not have the current "
100 Years of Automotive Ads
" As the poet said: ‘April is the cruellest month… mixing memory and desire.’ For many of us this sums up our automotive buying fantasies - adolescent motor memories mixed with up to the minute salary busting desire. The crew most "
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Citroën 2CV Prototype
"Few individual cars have inspired such love, devotion and geekery than the Citroën 2CV. As so many of you will know the tiny details of how this car came to be, I won’t try to define things. We "
MG Metro 6R4
"Group B rally inspired an entire generation to max the horsepower from their accessible little runabout. And of all the mentalist classics that received the Group B makeover in the early-mid eighties, none was as unlikely or appealing than the "
Auto Art: Tomas Pajdlhauser
"We stumbled across the lovely artwork of Tomas Pajdlhauser on the always-inspiring Le Container blog recently. Tomas is a Creative Director at Jam Filled Entertainment in Ottawa, Canada, and has spent the last 10 years in positions ranging from Art Direction, "
Tony Pond – blue collar rally legend
"We always loved the very idea of Tony Pond. The British rally driver, born in Hillingdon in 1946, always encapsulated a specific sort of blue collar derring-do – one that was very English and very of the period. Though he lacked the "
Lancia Delta S4 Stradale
"If you liked your Cavali distinctly Latin in temperament, then the Lancia Delta S4 Stradale was the ultimate in musky Italian testosterone. Lancia built the obligatory 200 road-going versions of the S4 Group B monster, and we reckon that, of ALL "
The Max Power Generation or…Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads?
"To those not embedded within the Max Power culture, its passing would hardly raise a ‘meh’, but this was a multi-million pound business with a dozen or more magazines feeding it, the largest of which was selling a quarter of "
Renault 5 Turbo
"It might not be the first motor you think of when you think of the mentalist modding culture of the mid-late nineties. But I owned a Renault 5 Turbo in the height on the madness. And know this: this car typified "
Top Five: Mod Heroes. Everyman tweakers of the late 20th Century
"During the mid-late nineties and into the new millennium - the Max Power generation was the most visible UK car cult out there. This was before car finance and insurance and a general political correctness took hold. We might all "
