" Sometimes it's good to have your preconceptions challenged. I was brought up and into car culture through the entertaining and sometimes scurrilous Custom Car magazine of the 1970s (below). Anyone that remembers that wickedly funny 'zine will remember that as "
" Recently having had the experience of sitting through the latest edition of the Fast & Furious franchise with a roomful of children between the ages of five and nine, I was intrigued as to why this high-revving explosion-fest appealed to "
" Now we love our motors. And we love our HD video. And we love our soul music. But whoever is responsible for this webbified conjunction of three of our favourite things is either REALLY in love with these three things, "
"Ok, ok. We concede. America owned the car in the 1950s. Us Europeans made some good motors, and we set ourselves up well for the ‘60s with the launch of the Mini in ’59. But we couldn’t get close to "
"Fiat Abarth 750 Zagato Give a tiny Fiat chassis the Zagato bodywork treatment and a tuned engine and tweaked running gear from Mr Abarth. What more could you want from a pocket rocket for the fifties? Post war Italian austerity gets "
"Leather jacket and jeans. The motorcycle rider’s default setting. Motorcyclists have been wearing leathers since their machines developed enough power to bother a rice pudding’s epidermis. The cowhide and denim combo became a global ‘rebel’ uniform, however, after "
"words and pictures Liz Seabrook Andy Watkins is a self-confessed motorbike geek. In his basement garage in Bristol sit five beauties: a 1937 Ariel, a Hailwood Ducati replica, a ’66 Harley patiently awaiting attention, a Norton 650 and the apple of his eye, "
"Artist Shawn Dickenson was born and raised near the coast of Los Angeles and spent most of his childhood surfing and drawing cartoons. Eventually he studied art at the Antelope Valley college before pursuing a career as a cartoonist. He "
"[gallery link="file"] We're unashamed fetishists of automotive design and spend an unhealthy time online and at various car events sifting through the voluminous back catalogue of a century of car culture. Our mission, dear reader, is to dig out "
" Click images and click top right to go huge! With the great weekend at la Circuit La Sarthe almost upon us there's little we'd love to do more than pull up the deep buttoned man- chair up close to the "
" all images via JNC Mind driving may be the preserve of license-less 11 years old, but in the Influx household it remains firmly at the front of our adultescent imaginations. So we were excited this morning when news hot of the "
" We approach the whole bike thing as a bit of a giggle. What's not to love - in a boyish, stupid sense of fun kind of way - about riding on a bike with an engine? Sometime there seems to "
" If you were lucky enough to find yourself at Clerkenwell Design Week recently, you would have been treated to a delicious display of the celebrated new design ethos of Jaguar. The centrepiece of the show was the one-off C-X75 concept "
" Barry Lee, charismatic king of the UK Rallycross scene of the 1970s, used to own the garage around the corner from where I lived in East London as a kid. There was something so completely of the time about our "
"[gallery link="file"] Without getting too Walt Whitman on you, around this time of year we get an uncontrollable urge to get out there and take to the road. The long days are perfect for dawn patrols on empty highways. "
" We're not sure if we're posting this because it is a spectacular act of sublime automotive madness, because it is a brilliant bit of viral marketing, or whether the coverage is so good. Either way, the Indy 500 weekend just past "
