Winter Kitbag – Top Five Automotive Sledges Darryl Sleath Kitbag 1 Comment As you probably know by now we blokes at MotorPunk HQ love a big boy’s toy; and as we approach the icy depths of a typical British winter our thoughts for this month’s kitbag turn to sledging, but with an...
Meet the Moke, the Mini’s Simple Country Cousin Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 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...
Monte Carlo’s Unlikeliest Rally Car – Ford Falcon Sprint Darryl Sleath Articles 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, TR4s...
Dutton Surf versus Suzuki Jimny – A MotorPunk Film for Carfection Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30, Uncategorized, Video Everyone is going bonkers for the new Suzuki Jimny. But is it the most MotorPunk adventure vehicle you can put on your driveway for about £10k? How about a bonsai off-roader that can also go...
Ben Carlin and the World’s only circumnavigation by amphibious vehicle Darryl Sleath Articles, Road Rallies 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....
CarClub 18-30 – Come on in Caterham 21 Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment The Caterham 21 was produced for the 1994 British Motor Show to celebrate 21 years of the Caterham 7. The aim was to have a car that offered "the chance to experience Caterham motoring in a more practical...
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...
Born in Britain – Barbour International Wax Cotton Jacket Darryl Sleath Kitbag, Uncategorized 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,...
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...