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Shitshow- Definition*Noun -vulgar slang USA situation or event marked by chaos or controversy*Google Oxford LanguagesThe 1963 East African Safari Rally can lay claim to the title of a shitshow, virtue of weather inspired chaos. Already notorious as the...

Forgive us this little aeronautical indulgence; at times we find examples of engineering genius/insanity that are too good not to share. Cue the 1917 Supermarine Nighthawk. All those wings! We’ll come back to that. There are other mad details too;...

In the 1960s the Lockheed Skunk Works in Burbank, California, went ballistic, developing a Top Secret spy plane for the CIA. Under the ironic codename of Oxcart, they created the Blackbird, a Mach 3 plus hotrod that no missile or fighter could catch. In the...

This is the potted history of console-based racing sims over the last forty years, and it's certain to get many MotorPunks of a certain age screaming at their monitors "I had one of those!" However, our younger readers probably won't believe that we chaps...

With the ongoing crisis of petrol and diesel worldwide, people have started moving to electric vehicles. The recent years will be a transforming step to welcome electric cars Ireland and the entire world. The sale of such cars is surging and has already taken...

Following a hefty hangover caused by Aass beer, aquavit and whale, I was inspired to put together a little compendium of the worlds most lethal alcoholic drinks. See why Nigella’s agent said “we do not want to be involved with this”, read about beer...

Jenatzy was a larger-than-life Belgian race car driver at a time when most the Flatland’s turnip-eating peasantry wouldn’t have even seen a motor car. At the turn of the last century these mechanical beasts were strictly the playthings of Europe’s...

November 2021 saw an online auction of some classic and historically significant, heavy haulage metal.The late Roger Austin was a dedicated collector and conservator of Scammel lorries and fairground attractions. Roger passed on in 2005. Its only now his...

MotorPunk doesn’t do stuff about fancy expensive watches. But thankfully, the Japanese G-Shock is neither of those things. Starting at around fifty quid, that rufty-tufty aesthetic isn’t just for show either: they were one of the first digital watches to...