Love for Lancia – 50 years of Beta at Goodwood Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Out & About Fifty years ago, following a takeover by Fiat, Lancia was tasked with delivering the Beta. Today, in the Goodwood sunshine, we share the love of a model which has long been overlooked. There was a...
Meet the Moke, the Mini’s Simple Country Cousin Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Crude, gutless and rejected by the military, this is the unlikely story of how the reinvented Moke charmed civvy street to become a '60s style icon. In downtown Los Angeles is the Museum of Failure, a...
Classic Escorts, a Rally Champion, and Biggles, – Its a MotorPunk Day Out Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Motorsport for the Poor, Out & About, Uncategorized A night drive to Wales led to early morning on a hill called CAD West, a natural green and pleasant camera platform between Dolgellau and Machynlleth that sits on a military air training area unofficially...
CarClub 18-30 – Come on in Caterham 21 Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment The Caterham 21 was produced for the 1994 British Motor Show to celebrate 21 years of the Caterham 7. The aim was to have a car that offered "the chance to experience Caterham motoring in a more practical...
The Real Transporter – Helge Meyer And His Ghost Camaro Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 1 Comment To any Hollywood directors out there, I would like to pitch you a story. There’s this guy called Helge Meyer, a lone wolf type, ex military and a committed Christian. There’s a civil war in Europe....
De Tomaso Pantera: Cooler than a Countach? Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Seventies cars The De Tomaso Pantera might not be the best known seventies supercar, but it certainly has the most colourful backstory. In this ten-minute treat from Carfection, our chum Alex Goy takes you on a fact-packed...
The Suzuki X-90 – ‘The worst car ever’ or was it? Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 8 Comments We at MotorPunk generally like cars that are a little bit oddball, take a left-field approach or throw spanners in the face of convention … but the Suzuki X-90 is a weird beast that’s been rather hard to...
R53 MINI JCW – Surefire Classic Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 3 Comments In the 1970s mk1 Minis were having their dinky rear lights cut out, bonkers-wide arches lashed on and their lovely brocade seats glossed with Dulux in botched attempts to make them look more modern. In the 80s...
944 spotted! The last of the tatty Porsches? Rich Duisberg CarClub 18-30 - The Cars Photographed recently, this Porsche 944 must surely be the last tatty example of the marque in daily use. Even 924s seem to be silly money and minty now and this 944 looks to have been run on a shoestring -...