"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 "
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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 "
The Importance of Being Mitsu
"The Mitsubishi Evo, much as we love it, is the only 'halo car' the company has. The trouble is that the Evo has been a cult success: so mythologized that its parent has almost been forgotten. It’s an Evo "
Evolution of the Evo
"Images: Mitsubishi Press Evolution is the right word. The look of the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with latte-sipping men in black rollnecks and everything to do with dirty-handed blokes in overalls. This purposeful product started as "
Jackie Chan & Evo
"Every now and then a star becomes associated with a brand of car, usually by accident. Think the various incarnations of 007 and Aston Martin, of course, and perhaps Steve McQueen with the Ford Mustang. You could probably come up with "
The X Factor
"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 "
We love the English Pony…
"Sure, we can argue about it, but we’re probably going to end up agreeing that the Ford Capri was the definitive car of the 1970s, in the UK, at least. The dates match; first sold in ’69, the Capri’s "
The Evolution of the Capri
"If you count the finned and chromed Consul GT version of the Capri, our favourite Ford has had four evolutions across a life-span of some 25 years. That's if you don't count, of course, the various stateside Fords that have borne "
Modern Classic: Ford Capri
"Photography: Influx/Magneto “I couldn’t afford a Mustang”, says 26-year-old Capri owner Pete Wallwork from Truro, Cornwall. I had asked the bike mechanic, BMX rider, barber and photographer the obvious question. Why would a young gun be attracted to "
The Professionals
"There are plenty of people who think that Laurie Johnson’s instantly recognisable, utterly seventies, wah-wah and brass theme tune for The Professionals was the best thing about it, and that every episode went rapidly downhill from there. But the "