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...
A Russian roadtrip – Lada and Volga tested, on film. Rich Duisberg Articles, Video We always wanted to try out some Cold War classics to see if were, perhaps, overlooking a treasure trove of three-box RWD saloons. After blagging a pair of nicely restored motors from a geezer in Riga, we...
Mobutu and the Concorde Rich Duisberg Out & About A friend of mine was talking about a King of Sweden once being caught with his pants down, financially and literally. “And so what?” he argued. The old boy had led a tediously worthy existence, there has...
Caravanners are cretins. A rant. Rich Duisberg Articles 1 Comment A rant. Online here, because the Publisher has rules on swearing in the magazine. I appreciate it's not good form to tar everyone with the same brush but in the case of caravanners I am going to do exactly...
Time lapse film of total Range Rover restoration by a friend of us ‘punks. Just. Watch. This. Rich Duisberg Video George is a friend of MotorPunk. His channel is our favourite on YouTube, and I'm not just saying this because he'd probably reading, no, he works on an Esprit, Cortina and this, a very rusty Range Rover....
Lada versus Volga – our “Russian” roadtrip film. Rich Duisberg Roadtripping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xiy2NUdMGE Big feature on this stuff coming in the next issue of MotorPunk magazine soon! See here...
A car from the year you were made? My classic Fiat 500 film. Rich Duisberg Articles, Features, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-o--PnL7dg&t=39s Like this? You'll love the mag. Fiat 500, Abarth 500, Fiat 850 Coupe, Lancia Gamma and other examples of rotten exotica all featured...
The story of the other Nürburgring (and why it’s a better place to develop roadcars) Rich Duisberg Road Rallies, Roadtripping It is, admittedly, a bit of a bucket list destination. I realised it was 20 years since my first, faltering lap of the Nürburgring in March of this year, and when getting my old Alfa sickeningly sideways,...