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Steve McQueen’s Husky for Sale!

Bikes People

" Collectors worldwide are all a-quiver with news that later this this year Bonhams, the auctioneer, will offer Steve McQueen’s 1971 Husqvarna 400 for sale – along with a trunkful of racing trophies the actor and self-confessed racer-bum accumulated over the years. Hosted "

Lancia ECV – Concept Car

Cars

" Lancia's ECV (Experimental Composite Vehicle) was a prototype Group S rally car that was supposed to replace the Lancia Delta S4 in WRC's 1988 season. Sadly, and as we often lament, Group B as well as Group S cars were banned "

Gabriel Orozco

Cars People

" On the day that the world finally gets to read journalists' first hand accounts of what the new British supercar is actually like to drive (see Influx writer Ben Oliver's splendid account of hanging with the MP4 12C and Jenson "

Radio Controlled Drifting

Cars

" We're not averse to the joys of drifting. We can dig the appeal. As the FIA outcast rebel motorsport, full of counterintuitive weighted rear ends, welded diffs and an aesthetic of smoke and sideways-ness that rubs the old guard fundamentally "

Onboard with Fangio!

Cars People

" You wouldn't have thought that this sort of thing existed. The film has got to be at least fifty years old and yet the camera is spookily steady. The great Juan Miguel Fangio handles the beastly, thin-booted Maserati on the "

What is the Cool?

Culture

" This weekend, after a wet and windy saturday afternoon session in front of The Thomas Crown Affair (yes, a very blokey indulgence between rugby matches), we set to thinking that why, exactly, is Steve McQueen so 'cool' and what, exactly "

Linda Vaughn

People

" Regular readers will doubtlessly realise that we here at Influx Towers are fascinated by Show Girls. The fact that our own lovely Fluxbabes are at the pinnacle of the promotional profession has something to do with it. But, the axe "

Cars As Movie Stars

Cars

"[gallery link="file"] It's a bit of a cliché to say that cars are often the stars of many a movie. But sometimes its not the tyre smoking rubber-laying car-chase moments through cinematic streets that are the lasting impressions. There "

HD Classics from Japan

Cars

" image Nissan press If modern Japanese classics are your thing, you have to take a look at this very beautifully made HD video from the people at JDM classics. Sometimes, looking at flat pictures fails to capture the true essence "

Cockpit Porn

Cars

" Still reeling from the breathtaking beauty of the McLaren display at the recent Autosport Show, we couldn't help but share with you this delectable pic of the cockpit of McLaren's 1989 successor to the all-conquering MP4/4. We're not sure wether this "

Irving Penn’s Hell’s Angels

Bikes People

" Irving Penn is undoubtedly one of the true masters of the photographic portrait. When he photographed a bunch of Hells Angels for Look Magazine in 1968 all the classic Penn elements were there - there was the stark backdrop; the steely "

GT40 Love

Cars

" It was an obvious choice - the definitive fast ford, one that will always be remembered as the Ferrari and Porsche-slaying slab of automotive sinew and muscle that rode to glory. And we'll never get tired of posting onboard footage "

William Eggleston’s Cars

Cars People

" American photographer William Eggleston was the first artist who used colour photography to be accepted as a 'serious' artist by the Art Establishment. His coolly abstracted lens was taken up wholeheartedly by film makers like Gus Van Sant , Wim Wenders "