"‘John Zachary DeLorean, engineer, car maker and conman, born January 6 1925; died March 19 2005’ So read the Guardian obituary of that day. In Britain we remember him as the maker of the DeLorean - his eponymous, stainless steel, Belfast-born beast that tucked "
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Super Monkey Bike
"pics Michael Fordham/Influx We stumbled upon this cool little shop recently specialising in pimped Monkey Bikes. Spymonkey is a one man operation run by Hiro-san in Shizuoka, just outside Tokyo. Hiro's idea is simple. Take a Monkey Bike and "
Tony Pond – blue collar rally legend
"We always loved the very idea of Tony Pond. The British rally driver, born in Hillingdon in 1946, always encapsulated a specific sort of blue collar derring-do – one that was very English and very of the period. Though he lacked the "
Max Power People
"Jordan: AKA Katie Price Few individuals are more associated with the excesses of the Max Power era than Jordan. We’re not sure whether she ever owned a Saxo, but she certainly graced covers, spreads and the bonnets and other "
Ferris Fest and a Ferrari
"This festival malarky has gone a little bonkers. And none more so than Ferris Fest. Yes, this is a gathering dedicated the unlikely cult of the 1986 teen film by John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Or is it that unlikely? "
Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance
"In 1974, Robert Pirsig finally published Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It had been rejected 121 times. It’s a classic of hip literature, though at the surface it seems pretty square. The book was not really about Zen Buddhism, "
Speed Sisters Film
"Speed Sisters, a documentary on a group of Palestinian women who have discovered a kind of transcendence through their love of street racing, is coming to your screens next month. Life on the occupied West Bank is no doubt tough, "
José Mourinho and the ‘Special’ Jaguar SUV
"Whatever you feel about José Mourinho, we reckon he’s a strange choice of brand ambassador for stalwart Brit brand Jaguar. Mourinho’s career has been characterised by huge sweeping statements of genius, followed by short bursts of practical proof "
Garage Porn
"WARNING! If you suffer from life envy, please look away now. LA-based screenwriter Jack Olsen has probably the nicest automotive man-cave ever constructed. But not only that, he has a killer race prepped Frankenstein Porsche 911, he's a successful writer of "
Springsteen: The Boss (of flat track).
"We don’t claim to be aficionados of AMA racing, far from it. Our only knowledge of AMA racing is from a bunch of images and films. But every time we discover a fresh batch of AMA stuff, particularly from "
Lotus Europa and , errr…Barry Gibb’s trousers…
"We can’t think of another car that looks even vaguely like the Lotus Europa S1. It’s kind of bread van-ish. It’s kind of otherworldly. And its look owes everything to a collision between Colin Chapman’s obsession "
Supercars, Super Humans
"Enzo Ferrari Il Commendatore was responsible for defining the facets, values and aesthetics of the supercar more than any other individual. Right from the very start of the Ferrari journey, the young Enzo was obsessed with the beauty of speed "
Dr. Oliver Sacks
"In August last year the world lost one of its great thinkers in the neurologist Oliver Sacks. He was well known for his insightful and best-selling books, for being the real-life version of the character played by De Niro in "