A Whiff of Bond – Floris No.89 aftershave Darryl Sleath Kitbag 4 Comments Product placement has always been part of the James Bond franchise, and with filming budgets rumoured to have nudged $250 million on No Time to Die, Broccoli's people are probably only to happy to take the ad...
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...
Sebring MGBs – The race cars that saved MG Darryl Sleath Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Here's the story of the most important burble (yes, that is the collective noun) of MGBs to ever leave the factory in Oxfordshire. This gorgeous MGB factory lightweight is one of three BMC Competition...
1970s car interiors – The Clash of the Tartans Darryl Sleath Articles, Uncategorized In the 1970s everyone was mad for plaid, from Johnny Rotten to Giorgetto Giugiaro. When the Sex Pistol’s frontman was hauled in front of the high court beak for drugs charges in February 1979, he looked...
CarClub 18-30 – The Mitsubishi Lancer 2000 Turbo Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Although Mitsubishis have been knocking around the UK for nearly fifty years, we logically assume that their line-up of two-litre turbocharged saloons must have begun with the EVO I. But actually, you’ll...
Tamiya Sand Scorcher – A Big Boys Toy Reissued Darryl Sleath Kitbag 1 Comment To some, remote controlled cars are just toys; a techie piece of pint-sized hoonery. But those in the know will tell you there’s a lot more to them than that. In fact, the first RC vehicles were not...
British Leyland – Half-Arsed PR and The New Avengers Darryl Sleath Articles 1 Comment 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...
Failsworth Mariners Cap – headgear with Lotus F1 heritage Darryl Sleath Kitbag 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...
TVR 350i – a cheese-themed doorstop that went like stink Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 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...