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Author Darryl Sleath

Darryl Sleath

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Darryl can usually be found up to his elbows in some unloved piece of BL detritus when he isn’t snapping and scribbling for various print magazines or producing the book on road tripping or tally-ho adventurers. As an occasional presenter on CBS's Carfection YouTube channel, his other hobbies include vintage Scalextrics, ‘60s Bang & Olufsen and dabbling in grassroots motorsport.

De Tomaso Pantera: Cooler than a Countach?

Darryl Sleath
CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Seventies cars
The De Tomaso Pantera might not be the best known seventies supercar, but it certainly has the most colourful backstory. In this ten-minute treat from Carfection, our chum Alex Goy takes you on a fact-packed...

Evolution of Racing Sims 1981-2020

Darryl Sleath
Articles
1 Comment
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...

Colonel Gaddafi’s Rocket Car – not quite what you’d expect

Darryl Sleath
Articles
1 Comment
You don’t expect road safety campaigns to be high on the list of priorities of murderous batshit-crazy Middle Eastern dictators. Left with a pack of crayons and a sketch pad you’d expected someone like...

Easiest Job in the World – The Sleazy Seventies Ad Man

Darryl Sleath
Articles
6 Comments
Without doubt the cushiest job in the world during the 1970s must have been the motor industry 'mad man'. Why? Well, there was a glut of marques battling for punters in an overcrowded market place –...

American Optics – A Chuck Yeagar Classic

Darryl Sleath
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In MotorPunk's regular Kitbag features we endeavour to bring you quirky stuff that ordinary chaps should be able to afford; but also gear that we think has an interesting tale to tell. Well today men we...

Porsche’s $1million Advent Calendar & MotorPunk’s cut price alternative

Darryl Sleath
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How things have changed! Porsche today makes about €2 billion profit per year, has broad mainstream appeal from its six model line-up and can now afford to chuck millions at courting new customers, through...

Porsche 911 ST – The Greatest Sports Car You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Darryl Sleath
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Porsche’s relentless pursuit of perfection has seen the 911’s steady ascent from spartan sports coupe to blue-chip supercar and the most successful race car platforms of all time. So if you could only...

Mini Coopers in the 1965 RAC International

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The Pathe News archives are a gold mine for car bores like us, and hark back to a time when gravelly-voiced toffs would bring tales of derring-do from the Continent and Colonies to expectant cinema goers just...

Monte Carlo’s Unlikeliest Rally Car – Ford Falcon Sprint

Darryl Sleath
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Robbed by those pesky Coopers in the ’64 Monte, the mighty Ford Falcon Sprint is still bossing the B-Roads in British historic rallying. In 1963, it did look a bit out of place among the classic Minis,...
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