Author Darryl Sleath

In 1950 Ben Carlin left Halifax, Nova Scotia, on a circumnavigation of the globe by sea and land that would take eight years to complete – an incredible feat that has, to date, never been repeated....

Aboard his floating man cave - strewn with aquatic gizmos - Cousteau became the greatest deep-sea explorer of all time. And he owed it all to the flaky electrics of a French-built roadster Jacques-Yves...

Even the most slovenly driving enthusiasts have to put some thought into their motoring apparel when they own a snug fitting track-focussed sports car. In the confined cockpit of something like an Elise you...

From submariners to scramblers to spies in Skyfall, these are the jackets that made Barbour’s waxed cotton clobber Internationally famous Traditionally, among the hardy young folk of Tyneside's clubland,...

Some car adverts are brilliant; that one with the Audi R8 on the rolling road for example, never fails to prick up my neck hairs. Those old Jaguar 'gangster' ones were pretty slick too, and back in the day the...

In 2011 the Mail Online ran a story about how three of the original Italian Job minis, or what remained of them, had finally resurfaced from a lock up in the backstreets of Turin. According to the article,...

Some people say that if you stare long enough into Porsche’s iconic seat fabric you’ll see a 3D image of the Graf Zeppelin, just like a those Magic Eye pictures that sent your eyes loopy in the noughties....

Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a 60s style icon. In downtown Los Angeles is the Museum of Failure, a...

Here's the little-known tale of how a rally-prepped mk1 three-litre V6 Capri helped one plucky Englishman smash the record for the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge way back in 1971 - a record that still stands...