70 years on from Nuvolaris last win and the birth of Abarth Rich Duisberg Features Nearly 70 years ago to the day, on 10 April, 1950, the great champion Tazio Nuvolari ended his racing career behind the wheel of the Abarth 204A, the first model constructed by Carlo Abarth. The time trial...
Spotted; Lotus Elite type 83 – £400 barnfind on the road Rich Duisberg Out & About 4 Comments No, really, it was found in a barn, in Sussex. Simon paid £400 for this charming, shabby Lotus Elite and we bumped into him on his maiden journey to the local Marina. A sympathetic MOT after paying someone a...
Supermarine Nighthawk – The fine line between genius and insanity Rich Duisberg Articles, Features Forgive us this little aeronautical indulgence; at times we find examples of engineering genius/insanity that are too good not to share. Cue the 1917 Supermarine Nighthawk. All those wings! We’ll...
The Da Vinci inspired road-going helicopter; Project Arnold. Rich Duisberg Articles, Features 1 Comment In 1485, polymath Leonardo da Vinci designed something called an Ornithopter, an early design for a man-powered flying machine. Roughly half a millennium later, moonlighting Cop and friend of MotorPunk, Jeff...
Tally-ho heroine: Wendy Markey Rich Duisberg Articles 5 Comments Racing is a ruddy expensive business. The lower formulas are full of folks funding racing with remortgages, loans or by simply living off Aldi baked beans and tap water. Any sniff of sponsorship gets quickly...
Giugiaro’s Ace of Clubs; The Piazza Turbo Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1979 was an otherwise unremarkable year for car design. European car of the year was the Chrysler Horizon, a car so dull we had to google to remember what it was. Fortunately, to offset such motoring tedium,...
Pocketmoney exotic spotted: Fiat Coupé Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Out & About Lamenting the loss of my red GTV I happened upon an example of its sibling, the Fiat Coupé, in a place called Frog Island. Despite its unusual name, Frog Island is a rather grey place and perhaps that dull...
Formula One WAGS – the Seventies had it Rich Duisberg Articles 6 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...