" Sometimes a video is too good not to share. We've blathered on about the brutal beauty of Group B rally time and time again. But we don't care. There's something so brilliant about the way these machines moved - and "
Missing In Action
" The artist known as MIA is pretty controversial. The Londoner with a Sri Lankan heritage has always polarised opinion, mixing up musical and creative influences from everywhere, and messing generally with the field of expectations and images. The video below "
Roberto Rossellini’s Ferrari 375 MM Scaglietti Coupé
" Italian neorealist film director Roberto Rossellini had taste. Not only was he one of the definitive auteurs of post-war European cinema, but he also commissioned a gobsmackingly beautiful car: a 375 MM spyder. You can see by the cut of Rossellini's "
Drive: revisited…
" When Nicolas Refn's film Drive came out last September we were obviously interested straight away. What's not to like about putting the words 'existential' and 'car' together? Any close reader of this blog will understand that imbuing meaning into cars "
Transparent Nostalgia
" Stumbled across an amazing collection of original Motorsports slides today for sale on eBay. It really brings to mind the glorious beauty of film and transparency photography. We here at Influx towers are of course obvious revelers in the joys "
Shiny, Happy Steel
" pic: Michael Fordham Thanks to the kind folks at Wikipedia chrome, or chrome plating, is actually a technique of electroplating a thin layer of the chemical element chromium onto a metal object. It was originally used extensively in industrial and "
Malta – Asphalt obsession & the cult of noise
" If you've ever been to the little island of Malta you'll have noticed at least two truths. The Maltese are mad (in a passionate, hilariously, brilliant way) and they are into their motors. In fact, the latter part is taken "
Ferrari 512 BB
" I always thought the 512 BB was a really under rated Ferrari. In my opinion, in fact it’s one of the prettiest Ferraris ever. The 523 BB had 12 cyclinders arranged in a boxer engine, and prefigured cars like the 308, 328 and the "
Influx Social
PRPS & Car Culture
" image PRPS A lot of people out there are understandably dubious about the connections between car culture and fashion. This video, though, is really worth a look. Donwan Harrell is a car nut and creator of PRPS, a high end "
Mercedes SLS AMG GT3
" Ok, you can't drive it on the road, it looks like a nightmare in which Hieronymous Bosch interprets a Wagner symphony in a room full of blood lusted Valkyries, but we can't keep our minds off AMG's SLS GT3. Merc "
Kandy Koloured Dreams
"Late last year I flew into Los Angeles to report a story on southern California's unique, vibrant, influential car culture. Nearly half a century earlier a slightly more talented writer did the same thing. Tom Wolfe, who would go on "
George Barris Q&A
" The name George Barris is synonymous with car customising. It was George and his brother Sam that revolutionised the art of custom cars in America back in the forties and fifties by reworking the likes of Ford and Chevrolet "
We Come from Garageland
"image via Bike Exif Three-chords, crap equipment, not much talent, lots of enthusiasm. Young men and women have been in garage bands since skiffle was The Next Big Thing, but it was only during the wave of 1977 punk that the "
Rollerburn!
"Images Sideburn /Jonny Wilson/Subsculptures Britain has some great motorcycle events, but many are as stale as the last supper’s leftovers. A few years after first launching our own independent motorcycle magazine, the Sideburn team started thinking about bigger "
Rhythm Riot!
"Photography John Isaac/Magneto The long, lonely stretch of road that is Camber Sands is the sort of place you'd usually hurry through to more pleasant pastures such as nearby Rye. Unless, that is, you're holidaying at the massive Pontins "
Jaguar 13 + 75
" A few years ago we had the pleasure of meeting legendary Jaguar development engineer Norman Dewis. This is the man responsible for the shakedown of many of the most incredible British cars ever made - and some of the out "
