Author Darryl Sleath

This is the farcical story of British Leyland's press department and how they managed to cock up their primetime product placement on some of the most popular TV shows of the 1970s. Be warned though, if...

Colin Chapman, engineering guru and head honcho of perhaps the greatest British race team of all time, donned his trademark Failsworth mariners cap as he prowled the pitlanes of the F1 circus. And he got...

Considered to be the most brutal stage of the Tour de France, this extinct volcano previously hosted the most prestigious event on Europe’s motorsport calendar Better known as the Beast of Provence thanks...

Peter Wheeler was a six-foot-six chain-smoking Yorkshireman who had made his millions in the ‘70s building desalinization equipment for North Sea oilrigs. Although he was only in his late 30s, he was already...

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...

1001 Drives You Must Experience Before You Die was MotorPunk's contribution to the vast portfolio of those bucketlist books that you are all probably familiar with. Our car-based shenanigans with XCAR,...

What do you do when your camera car hasn’t got the poke to keep up with its subject? The answer, as all Lotus disciples will tell you, is to start adding lightness. Based in Mainz-Kostheim on the banks of...

Everyone knows that I have an unnatural fondness for British Leyland. But I’m not deluded; I know they were mostly poorly built, unreliable and outdated lumps of crap, lashed together by tea-addicted,...

There was a time when every chap would, by force of habit, pat down his tweeds as he left his home just to check he was carrying his necessary accoutrements for the day; only when his wallet, pipe, car keys...