" We're always amazed, here at Influx towers, how creative photography can tease out unexpected perspectives for cars that we believe we know intimately. Take the shot of the GT40 MK 11, for example, taken by the very talented Boyd Jaynes. We "
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Dickie Davies Digs the Escort
" We've been a little obsessive about paying homage to ITV's brilliant World of Sport magazine show, which graced many a wintry British saturday afternoon from the late sixties to the mid eighties. It was in the heart of the seventies, "
Show Girls
" With the Paris car show looming in the headlights, we thought it timely to devote a daily post to our occasional study of automotive marketing. One the the great and enduring perennials of any car industry event is, of course, "
It’s Stock Car Racing
" Stock car racing UK style didn't die a death once the seventies ended. Far from it, in fact, Stock Car racing is thriving. I remember brilliantly spectacular footage from the dirt tracks being shown on Dickie Davis's Saturday sports magazine "
First Hand: A Clowder* of Cool Cats
" My first Jaguar experience took place when I was six years old; for some reason my parents abandoned their penchant for 1970's Renaults (4, 12 and 16 I seem to recall, but not in numerical order) in favour of something meatier; a Mark 2. "
Cosworth Love
" It seems that our omission of the Sierra Cosworth from out list of definitive cars of the eighties set the cat amongst the pigeons. Close readers of Influx may have noticed my disclaimer: having come to the age of road-legality "
The New Lotus Elite
" In ten days time Lotus will unveil their redefinition of the "modern classic" in the shape of the new Lotus Elite. If you won't be at the Paris Motor Show to enjoy this new machine in its full glory, here's "
Vintage Surf Wagons
" Strange Cornubian happenings continue to emerge now that the bulk of we grockles have gone back upcountry to our landlocked hovels, chained to our TFTs dreaming of halcyon days of summertime surf. Last weekend the World Bellyboard Championships attracted the "
This weekend: Le Mans Series at Silverstone
" This weekend at Silverstone there's an opportunity to check out some full blooded sportscar action. The Le Mans series is an evocative formula: an opportunity to get familiar with real endurance racing in advance of that inevitable pilgrimage to Circuit "
First Hand: The Volvo S60
" Upon arrival at Aberdeen airport, two very established, very male motor journos and I were presented with a shining row of old Volvo estates. We were assigned one that was a year younger than me – an F reg. Thankfully being "
Neo Rod Culture
" Sometimes as a European, it's hard to empathise with what turns people on about classic hot rods. The history of rise and rise of the stripped down DIY form is so essentially American, you get the feeling to be turned "
If you no longer go for a gap that exists….
" The cult of Eye-Ear-Ton (correct pronunciation) Senna is a worthy one. Not only could even the uninitiated see his incredible driving talent just by watching a single GP performance, but the way he carried himself and the sensitivity he demonstrated "
MV Agusta
" It could be the late surge of summer this September or the rapidly growing awareness of our own mortality here at Influx towers, but we've been seriously thinking of late that it might be the right time to by a "