Formula One WAGS – the Seventies had it Rich Duisberg Articles 5 Comments I blame Nicole Scherzinger. Watching the vacuous, androgynous former-Hamilton-squeeze hilariously falling over and getting yoghurt on her nose, again, was the final straw. I’d only just recovered from the...
Around the world on a set of Falkens. Rich Duisberg Articles The earth’s circumference is 24901 miles, so as I click over the same distance travelled, in a single year, on a set of Falken ZIEX ZE310 ECORUN (their shouty caps, not mine), I thought I’d share a quick...
Ripping up the Atlas – An African roadtrip on a budget Rich Duisberg Roadtripping Back in 1995, I bought and read a particular copy of Car magazine. On the front cover was a picture of a Ferrari 512 in the desert. The feature was written by a chap called Richard Bremner and told the story...
Spotted; A Citroen H van, AKA the Hipsters Honeypot Rich Duisberg Articles, Seventies cars Made from wrinkly tin from ‘47 to ‘81, the H van should really be a MotorPunk favourite. It has DS running gear and 2CV headlamps. If it were an animal it would be a French Bulldog made out of wet...
The Malta Classic: A hillclimb, a concours-de-fancypants and a street race. Rich Duisberg Out & About 1 Comment Malta is a stick of Mediterranean rock with the word Britain running right through it. That’s what you might read in lazier publications than this. This red-hot, jaggy lump of limestone has had many more...
‘70s snotter spotted; battered Beetle. Rich Duisberg Out & About, Seventies cars As MotorPunk focusses it’s bleary peepers on the ‘seventies (a decade we consider both the zenith and nadir in motoring history) we’ll share snaps of daily driven ‘seventies machinery we spot on our...
Hands up! The real lives of puppets who used to be on the telly. Rich Duisberg Kitbag, Uncategorized 1 Comment Happy New Year, one and all. There's some motoring stuff in the pipeline (honest!) but here's something a bit different for those wondering what to spend those Amazon gift vouchers on; "Hands Up!" is a black...
Take a ‘60s Beetle, add ‘70s Englishman and an ‘80s Fiat. Get this. Rich Duisberg Features Sometimes a chap just gets an idea in his head and has to turn it into reality. As much as we ‘punks appreciate interesting engineering we have to confess to loving certain machines just for the way they...
SORN but not forgotten – MotorPunk no longer in print Rich Duisberg Articles 6 Comments A quick message: I once said, back in issue one of MotorPunk magazine, that if other mags are a new Evoque on PCP, then MotorPunk is a hotwired XJS with an iffy MOT. Sadly, sometime very shortly, that Jag will...
