Author Darryl Sleath

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 But I’m not deluded; I know they were mostly poorly built, unreliable and outdated lumps of crap, lashed together by tea-addicted,...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...

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Driving shoes that’ll help the more skilful wheelmen dabble in the dark arts of heel ‘n toe, and yet won’t look ridiculous in the BRDC clubhouse with a post-race gin ‘n tonic.

“The concept was simple: to take the idea of the Morgan being a ‘Sunday morning car to drive to a country pub’ and turn it on its head by dropping it into an environment almost alien to the car.” This...