Spotted! Renault 5 Alpine Turbo Rich Duisberg Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Features 1 Comment I love a visit to PPC Mag's HQ in Corby. There's always something interesting in the workshop. Cars that don't always make the pages of the mag, stuff to be flipped on EBay, classics awaiting repair or (as is...
Project ‘Desert Rat’ – Part 1 of MotorPunk’s Mini Resto Darryl Sleath Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Fleet 2 Comments Albert Einstein famously said that the definition of insanity was 'doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.' Well, lock-me-up-in-a-rubber room if I haven't just gone and...
Project Midget – How not to restore a classic sports car Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Fleet 3 Comments MotorPunk Towers is currently awash with dismembered classics; Rich's manky Miata is one particularly massive undertaking by his new best mates at the local MX-5 specialists up the road, a lovely bunch of...
Marvellous madness. A Citroen advert to admire Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Features, Video 1 Comment Few marques have lost their way quite like Citroen. They were once the mad uncle of France's motoring family. Dalliances with Maserati, innovative engineering and graceful designs meant that from the '60s to...
Helical’s new “TVR Tempest Speed 12” – mad, mad, mad. Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Features 2 Comments A TVR Speed 12 is a rare enough thing, but the -15 prefix on the registration plate tells us this mad, mad, mad thing was built only this year. Old TVR went pop gears ago and new TVR aren't on the road yet,...
Tally-ho heroics in an Esprit. Apologies to Lotus, and Hampshire fire brigade. Rich Duisberg Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars This story was originally published in the 'print' version of MotorPunk some time ago. I thought we should re-run it as it never fails to make me smile; Many years ago when visiting a Ford factory I heard an...
Zakspeed Capri. Or not? Rich Duisberg Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment As 'orrible spotty-arsed teenagers, we MotorPunks didn't really get into fast Fords. Dr Octane was into BL stuff (mostly broken) and I was into Vauxhalls (mostly stolen). Rad was probably the wrong side of the...
Bygone Banger Rally Bargains & Future Classics Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Road Rallies 6 Comments Most low-rent petrolheads, including the scruffy ensemble we find hunched over the classifieds at MotorPunk HQ, all wish that they could predict which affordable modern classics of today are likely to become...
CarClub 18-30 Trackday #4 – Crazy Kittens, Poorly Porsches & Mobs of MX-5 Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Events 3 Comments MotorPunk's CarClub 18-30 Trackday IV – a celebration of all things cool, quick or quirky built between 1985 and 1997 – returned to the fabulous Blyton Park circuit for a second time on May...