Author Darryl Sleath

Everyone knows that the Beatles loved their motors. Ringo once bought a Facel Vega right off the stand at the 1964 Earl’s Court Motor Show, and was dailying a '60’s Mustang until fairly recently. John...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

Sported by racing legends from 1949 to 1967, the Argentine brand Suixtil were one of the very first companies to produced bespoke clothing for motorsport. In 2007, they came back with a line of classic clobber...

I have always felt a bit sorry for Maserati; passing from pillar to post in the reshuffles of various conglomerates for almost fifty years. After being kicked out of the sack by so many automotive bedfellows,...

Few would dare argue that Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss was anything less than a national treasure and proper VIP member of MotorPunk’s ‘Tally-ho Hero’ hall of fame. Not only because he won 212 of the 529...