" A couple of years ago we were lucky enough to spend a few hours in the company of Sir Sterling Moss. We had a great afternoon with the knight of the road in his sunny Mayfair mews house. You can "
The Art of Michelle Lopez
" If like me, you like to make a fetish out of motors, then you might well dig this leather wrought art by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. Now, there's something tantalising about a car wrap: something about possibility and revelation; "
Is this the Ultimate Driving Music?
" It's an often debated subject, but we think we recently stumbled across what must be THE ultimate highway driving tune. Krautrock supergroup Can might not be everyone's cup of Java, but on a particularly wet, particularly clear night highway earlier "
Jaguar XJR-S
" OK, it was a lumbering brute, the XJS. Early editions were plagued by unreliability and rust - it was an honorouble conception but a badly executed late Leyland-Era attempt to bring the Jaguar label back into the arena of the "
The Ferrari 330 GT Vignale Shooting Brake
" We've been known to drop a line or two about the beauty inherent in the whole idea of a shooting brake. As a gentleman's sporty wagon in fact, the whole concept is an elegant, prescient echo of the much maligned "
Dirty Classics
" It has occurred to us before that obsessional cleanliness when it comes to cars, is overrated. It might be fine for the concours comp, but there's something sterile about a vacuum packed, aspic-stored beauty that detracts. And stumbling across this "
Art, Stars & Cars by Markus Haub
" Images Markus Haub/Speedstar Gallery We stumbled across the work of Markus Haub this morning whilst mooching about on one of our favourite blogs of the French pursuasion, Le Container. Amid the world of cars and art there are a "
Rubbernecking, 30s Style
" On our webly wanders recently we stumbled across some absolute proof positive that rubbernecking isn't the modern phenomenon that it has been supposed to be. These shots, scalped from the Boston Public Library Archive (Via one of our fave blogs "
Influx Social
The Joy of Weber
" Now, we're no mechanics here at Influx towers, but there's something we love about a good old fashioned carburettor. And for some reason, when it has the word Weber on it, they have something of a carnal quality that tips "
Simple Pretty Pictures
" Pictures by the talented Mr Blauvelt We stumbled across a very nice set of pictures recently – and here are a handful of nice ones from the extensive set. It's an object lesson in simplicity. So many photographers throw the full "
Triumph GT6
"When I was growing up the older kids on the estate all used to aspire to Mk 2 Escorts. It was the seventies. It was Dagenham. Everyone's dad and their older brother seemed to work at Ford's. Their daughters and sisters "
The Importance of Being Triumph
"The Triumph marque is deeply embedded in British motoring history. Through changes of name and ownership, good times and bad, from the globe to the laurel wreath, it put its name to a series of vehicles that have left tracks "
Significant Others
"Triumph Dolomite Sprint Innovative engineering (arguably the world’s first multi- valve production engine) and clever marketing (it foresaw the sports-saloon boom) let down by really crappy manufacturing: the original ‘135’ name had to be dropped as they couldn’t build "
England’s Alfa?
"Tell us about Triumph, says the editor, and make it personal. But that’s exactly Triumph’s problem. For someone like me – mid-thirties, passed my test in ’92 – a brand that died in 1984 doesn’t figure much in our car consciousness. "
Ford Concepts
" Stumbled across the amusing video at the bottom of this post this morning on the lovely iedei blog. The edit brings out a dynamic evocation of the sort of boomtime economy style thinking that produced a futurist, expansive design philosophy "
Nordic Noir and 911
" A few members of our household are currently rather obsessed with BBC4's Danish language thriller series The Bridge. If you're not a fan of the subtitles, moody colour pallets, brooding narratives and natter that constitute Nordic Noir, then this "
