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Vintage Nürburgring

People

" video via Automobiliac This video is not the onboard, hold onto your hats variety. It's more interesting than that. What appears below is a classic piece of footage of 1939 Grand Prix champ Hermann Lang (above), piloting the stupendous Silver Arrow "

Scott Pommier Tumblr

People

" If we had to pick lensman to define what we love about people, bikes and cars, then it would be Scott Pommier. There's something timelessly appealing about the way he extracts the personality and passion of his subjects - be "

Lancia Delta S4 time trial

Cars

" Sometimes a video is too good not to share. We've blathered on about the brutal beauty of Group B rally time and time again. But we don't care. There's something so brilliant about the way these machines moved - and "

Missing In Action

People Culture

" The artist known as MIA is pretty controversial. The Londoner with a Sri Lankan heritage has always polarised opinion, mixing up musical and creative influences from everywhere, and messing generally with the field of expectations and images. The video below "

Drive: revisited…

Cars

" When Nicolas Refn's film Drive came out last September we were obviously interested straight away. What's not to like about putting the words 'existential' and 'car' together? Any close reader of this blog will understand that imbuing meaning into cars "

Transparent Nostalgia

Cars

" Stumbled across an amazing collection of original Motorsports slides today for sale on eBay. It really brings to mind the glorious beauty of film and transparency photography. We here at Influx towers are of course obvious revelers in the joys "

Shiny, Happy Steel

Cars

" pic: Michael Fordham Thanks to the kind folks at Wikipedia chrome, or chrome plating, is actually a technique of electroplating a thin layer of the chemical element chromium onto a metal object. It was originally used extensively in industrial and "

Ferrari 512 BB

Cars

" I always thought the 512 BB was a really under rated Ferrari. In my opinion, in fact it’s one of the prettiest Ferraris ever. The 523 BB had 12 cyclinders arranged in a boxer engine, and prefigured cars like the 308, 328 and the "

PRPS & Car Culture

Cars Culture

" image PRPS A lot of people out there are understandably dubious about the connections between car culture and fashion. This video, though, is really worth a look. Donwan Harrell is a car nut and creator of PRPS, a high end "

Jaguar 13 + 75

Cars

" A few years ago we had the pleasure of meeting legendary Jaguar development engineer Norman Dewis. This is the man responsible for the shakedown of many of the most incredible British cars ever made - and some of the out "

Strange Fruit

People Culture

" All images Emile Kozak Emile Kozac is a prolific creative type. He photographs strange, absences, landscapes where the captured flies fleetingly by and then disappears. He documents normal things that through the lens become strange, even extraordinary. The Barcena based "

Slotted

Cars

" images via http://www.acontinuouslean.com/ There are cool bosses and there are cool bosses. And there are cool offices and there are cool offices. But when you get a cool boss that sanctions the build of a cool slot "

Masterclass: Sir Stirling & The Cooper

Cars

" Down tools for ten minutes and enjoy with us this informative and entertaining video of Sir Stirling Moss threading a beautiful little Cooper around Donington Park. The car is similar to the one in which Sir Stirling won the 1958 Argentine "