" 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 "
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 "
Influx Social
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 "
Friday Scrambler Crush #1
" Whatever you think of the globally burgeoning scene of hipster-bikers, you've got to admit there are some beautiful custom builds emerging. This ground up build is typical of the sort of lovely machinery that is being put together all over "
Jaguar & Le Mans, 1954
" Some truly amazing footage here from a documentary focusing on the 1954 24 Heures Du Mans. It's all pretty gripping but highlight for me is right at the start when the Jaguar team emerge from the Browns Lane plant with those immaculate "
Alfa Scarabeo Concept
" Every now and then it's great to have a look at a concept for pure novelty value. This, though, is not the most outrageous concept to come out of Italy in the sixties, but for us it's one of the "
Toyota 2000 GT
" With all these wet weekends, weekdays, bank holidays we've been having, it has been the perfect springtime for catching up with old movies. And, watching a bit of Sean Connery action the other day with my nine year old son, "
