"words & pictures: Michael Fordham Back in the primordial soup of post war Japan – a nation demoralised and devastated by unimagined military defeat, there was a little seed of determination left in the Japanese people despite the suffering endured. The "
" When we spotted this twisted beauty last week, we were instantly impressed by its ghetto fabulousness. A stipped down, rusted primer coated Mk1 with Tangoed alloys, a matt black hood with comp stripes and all sorts of add-ons, make it "
" Having spent the last week or so belting about in the rather sublime B road bad boy that is the Mitsubishi Evo X, which has a rather spartan, rather lacklustre interior, (stay tuned later this week for more on one "
" pics: Church of Choppers Our daily mine of the webs shored up some interesting pics this morning from US based hog hounds Church of Choppers. This crew seem to gather together a really appealing rattle bag of bike culture - "
" Having spent a good proportion of the last few years staring at and thinking about cars, I can finally come out. I have a fetish about matte paintwork. It might be that the world knows what I am on about, "
" all images © Jonathan Levitt We've been trying to define what we love about Jonathan Levitt's blog, Grass Doe. Grass Doe is a collection of the Maine photographer's images, updated regularly. There are beautiful images of snowbound wolves, bucolic riverine moments "
" This week's car crush is relatively attainable. Well, it might cost an arm and a leg, but at least the family driver could practically own one without causing too much jangling discord on the school run. BMW aspirational mainstay receives "
" But we stumbled recently across this morning this amazing footage of Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg's latest creation, the 5.0 liter twin-turbocharged V8 Agera, recently breaking the record for going from 0-300KM/h and then back to a stop. You can "
" still photography: Gary Margerum You may have seen The Wall of Death travelling the festy byways of Britain these last couple of years. Our friend, photographer and vintage bike culture fancier Gary Margerum has spent the last couple of years "
" Images © Michael Fordham Time and time again we come across interesting cars and bikes and people on our travels of this and other lands. Now we thought it was about time that we share with you what we find. Go "
" We at influx towers have always aspired to do proper off road adventure one day. There's something about the untrammelled feeling of freedom that comes with busting free from the rules and regulations of the highway. It's a different, primal "
" In our current bout of obsession with all things vannish and practical we stumbled this morning across yet more beautiful graphic goodness focussed on the split screen microbus. Nothing really to say about this apart from how gobsmackingly stylish these "
" Being in one of those automotive quandaries is great for daydreaming. Old banger and surf wagon/default dadmobile having recently been crushed in the face of an intransigent MOT, there are so many boxes to be ticked in our search "
" David Hockney saw it. From the perspective of a grim English town in the fifties, the grey wash flattening and unifying everything you saw into dreary monochrome, California looked special. He may have been only looking at Black and White "
" It was stumbling across this beautifully detailed cutaway this week (below) that inspired our current romance for Porsche's first born. Nay-sayers who claim that the original apple of Ferry's eye is a Beetle with delusions of grandeur may have a "
" Images Adrian Van Anz/Derringer. We're moped fans. They're cheap, fun and quick, and if you live in a sunny environment like southern California they make more sense than a smart car. And while moped is usually a cypher for "
