" If like me, you like to make a fetish out of motors, then you might well dig this leather wrought art by Brooklyn based artist Michelle Lopez. Now, there's something tantalising about a car wrap: something about possibility and revelation; "
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Is this the Ultimate Driving Music?
" It's an often debated subject, but we think we recently stumbled across what must be THE ultimate highway driving tune. Krautrock supergroup Can might not be everyone's cup of Java, but on a particularly wet, particularly clear night highway earlier "
The Ferrari 330 GT Vignale Shooting Brake
" We've been known to drop a line or two about the beauty inherent in the whole idea of a shooting brake. As a gentleman's sporty wagon in fact, the whole concept is an elegant, prescient echo of the much maligned "
Dirty Classics
" It has occurred to us before that obsessional cleanliness when it comes to cars, is overrated. It might be fine for the concours comp, but there's something sterile about a vacuum packed, aspic-stored beauty that detracts. And stumbling across this "
Rubbernecking, 30s Style
" On our webly wanders recently we stumbled across some absolute proof positive that rubbernecking isn't the modern phenomenon that it has been supposed to be. These shots, scalped from the Boston Public Library Archive (Via one of our fave blogs "
The Joy of Weber
" Now, we're no mechanics here at Influx towers, but there's something we love about a good old fashioned carburettor. And for some reason, when it has the word Weber on it, they have something of a carnal quality that tips "
Simple Pretty Pictures
" Pictures by the talented Mr Blauvelt We stumbled across a very nice set of pictures recently – and here are a handful of nice ones from the extensive set. It's an object lesson in simplicity. So many photographers throw the full "
Ford Concepts
" Stumbled across the amusing video at the bottom of this post this morning on the lovely iedei blog. The edit brings out a dynamic evocation of the sort of boomtime economy style thinking that produced a futurist, expansive design philosophy "
Nordic Noir and 911
" A few members of our household are currently rather obsessed with BBC4's Danish language thriller series The Bridge. If you're not a fan of the subtitles, moody colour pallets, brooding narratives and natter that constitute Nordic Noir, then this "
Friday Scrambler Crush #1
" Whatever you think of the globally burgeoning scene of hipster-bikers, you've got to admit there are some beautiful custom builds emerging. This ground up build is typical of the sort of lovely machinery that is being put together all over "
Jaguar & Le Mans, 1954
" Some truly amazing footage here from a documentary focusing on the 1954 24 Heures Du Mans. It's all pretty gripping but highlight for me is right at the start when the Jaguar team emerge from the Browns Lane plant with those immaculate "
Toyota 2000 GT
" With all these wet weekends, weekdays, bank holidays we've been having, it has been the perfect springtime for catching up with old movies. And, watching a bit of Sean Connery action the other day with my nine year old son, "
Jalopy Junkies
" There's something about vintage dragging that retains a raw simplicity that we love. And stumbling across a mad selection of freakoid weapons of quarter mile destruction on the Jalopy Journal's forum recently we wanted share. We're sure that some of "