Le Mans Classic 2012

Cars

"Images: Magneto for Influx There's probably been more motoring column inches dedicated to the Ford GT40 than to any other racing car of the last half a century. There's a reason why. At the Le mans Classic, to see these "

Classic Summer: Rudge Motorcycles

Bikes

"Images: Magneto for Influx In the pre-war years, The Rudge was the British bike to have. With a reputation for reliability, brawn and style, the company was the result of a the merger of two bicycle manufacturers in 1894. "Rudge it, "

Classic Summer: The Hayride

Bikes

"Images: Magneto for Influx Held from the 27-29th July at Bisley Shooting Ground in Surrey, The Hotrod Hayride this year was the eighth event staged by Jerry Chatabox & Anna Porter. It's a unique UK gathering bringing together Europe's "

BSA: King of Marques

Bikes

"Images: Magneto for Influx In terms of totemic British brands, you can't get more classic than BSA. Evocative of all the positive aspects of Empire: industrial ingenuity & community, technological boldness and design brilliance, the motorcycles produced by the Birmingham "

The floppy Volvo P1900 Sport

Cars

" We're a big fan of Volvo here at Influx towers, and have even been known to tinker with a lovely p1800E every now and then. We think the design integrity and stylish twist on a shooting brake that is "

Makr X Deus

Culture

" Whether or not the person in your life for whom you're likely to want to buy gifts is young, old, male or female - if they like fettling anything vaguely metal-wrought and road-going, we think they would really like to "

Renault Alpine A442/3

Cars

" Call it a Porsche baiting hare, an impractical bubble-top fantasy or the greatest Renault ever to race : but the Alpine A442/3 was definitely the fastest Renault ever to put rubber on a circuit - clocking 238MPH in qualifying trim in "

Citroen H Van

Cars Culture

" The Citroën H Van was produced between 1947 and 1981. Amazingly perennial and instantly recognisable, 473,289 were produced in 34 years in factories in France and Belgium. The engine, gear box and many smaller parts are well known from other Citroën models "

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Alfa Giulia Berlina

Cars

" This year the Giulia's iron-steady, three box stalwart celebrates its 50th birthday. And for all its very un-Italian, simple stoicism, we think it's a classic that needs to be celebrated. Though the sexier, more svelte 105s, GTs and Spiders through "

TT-tastic

Bikes

" Michael Dunlop between the hedges by Stephen Davison There are loads of brilliant TT videos out there. This is a brilliant TT video. If you ever needed to get a true perspective of the body-vaporising potentialities of the ultimate road "

Ferrari 246 GT Dino

Cars

" It might have been a ill conceived attempt at making a mini-Ferrari, but the cute, six cylinder 246 GT Dino is for us much more than that. It is, in our opinion, one of the prettiest cars ever to wear the "

The Wolfrace Sonic

Cars

" The creator of Wolfrace's promotional vehicle was Nick Butler, who was an aerospace engineer for Hawker Siddley, who built a series of one-offs in the Hot Rodding 1970s - and who went on to create the Cirrus - which almost "

Fiovaranti F-100

Cars

" This lovely Barchetta concept from 2000 was commissioned within Fiovaranti to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Enzo Ferrari's birth. Based on the 360 Modena format: it spookily prefigured the 430 and 458 Italia cars that would eventually be released by the Modena factory itself. "

Mercedes 220 Coupé (111)

Cars

" A neighbour of mine used to own one of these beauties. There's something amazingly sculptural about the curvature of the glass in the rear three-quarter that made me sigh. Never having been a particular Mercedes fetishist, the way this coupé "

Summer Holiday, 2012

Cars

"Many of you, like us, will be off on the roads of Europe in the coming weeks. There's something classic about the European vacation summarised nicely by Cliff and company in their sixties cheesefest Summer Holiday, and Chevy Chase and "

The John Pope Special

Cars

" This monstrous mutant is something to behold. We suppose it was a nice idea. Take a dinged up DBS Vantage V8, strip off the body and replace it with a bulging piece of Bedford steel. Add a hi-spinning turbo to "