" Images via Influx Street Spots, High Snobiety, Mercedes We've been Land Rover fans for as long as we can remember here at Influx Towers. As we've mentioned time and time again, there's a loveliness about the simplicity of pure use "
Moto Guzzi Classic Love
" images via : le container, Bike Exif, MotoGuzzi Now, we've blathered on at length about our youthful obsession with Moto Guzzi's 850 le mans Mk1. But we can't shake the addiction. Every now and then we HAVE to wile away a windswept "
AMC Amitron
" I keep saying it to everyone I meet who cares about cars, without really, fully believing it. Every time I fill up, as you do, you wince, and wonder how great a proportion of that weekly hard-earned will have to "
Robert Redford: Biker
" Robert Redford by Orlando Globey via The Selvedge Yard It's well documented that Paul Newman & Steve McQueen were racers to their bones. These guys knew how to operate machines of four wheels and two as well as they knew "
Porsche 356: the beginning
"The first Type 356, designed by Ferdinand Porsche at the age of 72, was constructed in the then home of the Porsche company, an old sawmill in Gmund in Austria, in 1948. This first prototype, which now resides in the Porsche museum in "
Porsche 356 – the tech
"All images Magneto Gary Irwin's 1959 Porsche 356 was imported to UK in June 1999, when the bodywork restored and refinished by Andy Barry of Southend. The car was originally Ruby Red but was refinished by Andy in Aetna Blue, an original Porsche "
Porsche 356: the outlaw
"They call it an outlaw. And that's why we like it. But it has nothing to do with legality. It has everything to do with orthodoxy. When the concours-fetishists denigrate cars who don't take originality to be the quintessence of "
Some Graphics from the 1930s
" We're on a bit of an auto art geek off these last few weeks due to the commissioning process of the next Print Zine. We keep stumbling on intriguing little bits and pieces of bygone car culture that is inspiring "
Influx Social
Mitsubishi Cordia Commercial
" Now, the Cordia isn't the sort of car that often makes even Japanese car fetishists salivate. It's got that Renault Fuego-ish angular period aspect: though the Cordia had hard, origami style lines where the Fuego had voluptuous flow. It came "
McLaren turns 50 this year!
" We're McLaren fans here at Influx towers. When a company turns 50 years old, as this stalwart of British automotive engineering does this year, then we reckon it's worth celebrating. Ever since the now classic F1 rolled out of the hanger "
Natural Habitats
" Next week sees the launch of a great looking selection of pictures from the workshops and the roads of greased up Garage Land. Sam Christmas is a noteworthy shooter these days, and has of late swivelled the lens at one "
The Ladybird Book of Motor Cars
" A good friend of mine (Thanks Spen) thoughtfully purchased this little beauty for me at Christmas. Not only is it the perfect gift for a collector of auto-ephemera and self-confessed car spotter like myself – it stirred some really deep lying "
Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
" On 22nd July 1991, at Protech House, Cobham a fleet of four 'Sanction 2' recreations of Aston's sublime Zagato collab was launched. These cars were built under license with authenticity shot through every nut, bolt, square centimetre of alloy and hide. "
Mercedes 190 Cosworth
" Well, when we write 'sleeping' brute, we suppose the 'ordinary' wingless 2.5-16 that sits unassumingly on many a wealthy street corner may be the ultimate sleeper. But the Evo version you see before you, souped, tweaked and bewinged- just hints "
Greenwood Corvette
" 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 "
Porsche Panamera Chase Car
" If you're any kind of lensman or camera botherer, amateur or pro, you will salivate when you check out this super badass, matte-black Panamera chase car. Owned and operated by Chase Car inc out of California, this ultimate camera dolly "
