Pape’s Progress – The Automotive Adventures of a Tally-Ho hero and his Austin A90 Steve Swanson Articles, Roadtripping In July 1955, an Austin A90 Westminster departed London on a mission to venture where no motorcar had gone before: a journey of seventeen thousand miles, from the North Cape of Europe to the Southern Cape of Africa. Behind the wheel was a mercurial former...
Road Tripping – The Mont Ventoux Hillclimb Darryl Sleath Roadtripping Considered to be the most brutal stage of the Tour de France, this extinct volcano previously hosted the most prestigious event on Europe’s motorsport calendar Better known as the Beast of Provence thanks to its regular inclusion in the Tour de France,...
Ripping up the Atlas – An African roadtrip on a budget Rich Duisberg Roadtripping Back in 1995, I bought and read a particular copy of Car magazine. On the front cover was a picture of a Ferrari 512 in the desert. The feature was written by a chap called Richard Bremner and told the story of this car, probably worth more than my house,...
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 look, at times. And this is a classic example. I...
Move over North Coast 500 – Tackling Wales’ newest long-distance driving route with the Caterham 360R Darryl Sleath Roadtripping Only a decade ago, if you’d got yacking with your chums about planning some long-distance automotive adventure, it would have conjured up images of sun-parched desert highways, Easy Rider and drop-top Yank tanks ploughing up Route 66. But thankfully,...
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, again, I concluded that I’m done with it. Public...
Piaggio Ape racing film Rich Duisberg Motorsport for the Poor Well, this was fun. More details in issue three of MotorPunk Magazine. More info here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZyTA2lmnk I particularly like the "not this asshole (Rich) again" comment. Thanks for watching,...
