Author Dr.Octane

Whilst Charles Morgan has been reviewing some of the world's most scrumptious, and highly priced, classics for our good chums at Carfection, the MotorPunk massive has been keepin' it real, looking at motors...

Motor racing is a serious business; Martini is a serious multinational company; and the volks from the land of pork knuckle aren’t exactly known for their zany sense of humour either! So why the dickens did...

Up for the Mille Miglia? Fabulously wealthy? Proudly patriotic? This exquisite Aston from 1953 will tick all the boxes for some lucky bastard. Serving up just 80 well-bred horses from its 2.6 Vantage...

Last summer, as regular MotorPunk readers might remember, we embarked on an epic French road trip to rediscover some forgotten historic race venues. Rich argued that if we were going to try and follow in the...

Any Brit with even a passing interest in the great outdoors or PE will have heard of the National Three Peaks Challenge. Nowadays it’s championed by squads of ruddy-faced ramblers with predilections for...

We love old British Le Mans cars, especially the C and D-Type Jaguars; they are so chock-full of cool little details and are fabulous tributes to the absolute limits of racing know-how from their 50s heydays....

No, not the 'real' Q branch car. That particular aquatic Lotus - the last surviving original film cars of the eight S1 Esprit used in The Spy Who Loved Me - was snapped up by a famous 'leccy car magnate for a...

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 in the next few minutes "I had one of...

Quarter mile of bracing British seafront, a supe’d up Mog Three Wheeler and a 90 year old drag racing record are the essential ingredients of our most recent Carfection video which we filmed last September...