‘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 2 Comments 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...
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...