"No doubt many of us wish we had the time, money and TV good looks to do a Ewan McGregor (and his mate) and embark on a motorised mega trip to lands far away and adventures extreme. In 1955, when an "
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James Coburn
"Of all the tough guys that Hollywood as ever produced, James Coburn was one of the toughest. And he of course had an incredible taste in cars. It’s common knowledge that soon-to-be-anointed supremo of mainstream UK car culture Chris "
Range Rover Velar
"Wait. Be still your angry keyboard. We know that the Range Rover didn’t have its official launch until June 1970. What now lies before us on a central London dealership forecourt is a piece of automotive archeology, a motorised missing "
Hart to Hart: Car Spotting
"TV series of the 1970s and 1980s are ripe for car spotting. And these productions don't get any more tantalising for car spotters than the jokey, schlockey grinfest that was Hart to Hart. Yes, there's a Ferrari Dino and a "
CUSTOM BIKES! GORE! BEARDS! MAXWELL PATERNOSTER!
"You know the score. The last few years world wide there has been a cross-fertilisation of the skate and surf aesthetic with the new DIY wave of custom bike culture. Manifestations of this unexpected twist in pop-culture’s timeline have "
What’s your favourite BMW 3 Series?
"It all began in 1975. Like many trends in the motoring industry of that era, the 1973 oil crisis made demand for a small, light, efficient car that could claim the middle ground and make a new benchmark for BMW in terms "
Evel Knievel London 1975
"On Bank holiday Monday at the end of May 1975, Evel Knievel appeared in London's Wembley Stadium. 40 years have passed since this totemic point in London pop culture – and looking at the home-made cine film footage we found, it's a window "
Porsche 911 RS 2.7 Carrera Sport Lightweight
"For me, this 1973 911 RS Lightweight represents the essence of Porsche. It was 1973. Porsche had achieved unheard-of dominance at Le Mans. There was an oil crisis that meant that sports cars were required to be fleet footed and stripped down. They "
The Goob
"On May 29 The Goob is due to hit cinemas. What is the Goob? Not sure. We haven't seen the film yet. But director Guy Myhill has assembled a cast of little known, striking looking actors and has focussed on our "
Ducati Tracker by Earle Motors
"I've always wondered why you don't see many customised Ducati Monsters. They've always seemed to me a worthy custom platform – though my altogether absent mechanical skills doesn't make me the best commentator on anything technical. But when I stumbled across "
J.G. Ballard: The Shepperton Shaman
"It was six years ago this April we lost that great writer, thinker and mythologist of the near future, J.G. Ballard. Ballard had a complex relationship with the automobile. You can see this most famously in his 1973 novel Crash, "
Mercedes, Pininfarina and Camargue
"We're currently a bit obsessed by this strange, beautiful creature. If you look at it a little more sideways askance - it brings to mind the ride of a generic baddie in a Hollywood TV movie. Look at it. Can't "
Phillip Glass Digs BMW R69
"Phillip Glass loved his BMW motorcycles. Whether there's a musical metaphor in there we don't know – but it emerged yesterday that the post-modernist composer and musician spent a lot of time on the back of an R69 BMW, which he "