Author Darryl Sleath

When Vincenzo Florio brought home his first motor car, from a showroom Paris to his native Sicily, there was just one problem: there were no roads on the island. This is the story of how the world's greatest...

Only a decade ago, if you’d got yacking with your chums about planning some long-distance automotive adventure, it would have conjured up images of sun-parched desert highways, Easy Rider and drop-top Yank...

The 1992 Formula One season was dominated, to the point of boredom, by Mansell and Patrese in the Williams FW14B – but the wacky goings-on at the other end of the pitlane in the garages of the fledgling...

Got a car that falls into MotorPunk's CarClub 18-30? Well then, why not join us on the 2nd of July for skids and giggles on our fifth annual trackday at Blyton Park in Lincolnshire. Ideally, we want folks...

When I was about 11 I joined the 22nd Leicestershire Boys Brigade; yes, that pint-sized militant wing of the Methodist church that dressed like the Thunderbirds in darker hues of blue. I partly did it because...

The BMC’s Buckboard was meant to be a feisty little attack terrier – a pintsized British alternative to VW’s Kübelwagen, fashioned from Morris and Austin odds ‘n sods, that could be dropped by...

Back in May 2018 we joined the world famous London to Brighton Mini Run, a convoy of Issigonis’s greatest creations that chugs its way 53-miles southwards from Crystal Palace to the balmy coastal assembly...

Just after Christmas I stumbled across an TED Talk by an American fella called Matt Cutts about the 30 Day Challenge, a little motivational trick to overcome that soul-sapping inertia you sometimes get when...

In the 1970s mk1 Minis were having their dinky rear lights cut out, bonkers-wide arches lashed on and their lovely brocade seats glossed with Dulux in botched attempts to make them look more modern. In the 80s...