The Ford Transit Bullnose that caught our eye

Bullnose

The Transit “Bullnose”. A rare sight and, if rumours are to be believed, not an intentional design feature. The distinctive, if not yet iconic, extended nose was merely an engineering solution. One made due to unforeseen complications with the packaging of a diesel engine into an already-sorted design. All old Transits are now rare, and […]

Mille Miglia 2017

Almost 450 cars from 43 countries; 84 automotive brands, four days’ driving from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia through cities, small villages, coast, mountains and hills and even a Tornado base path. It’s 2017 Mille Miglia. When I think about the most exciting days a classic car enthusiast should live once in life, […]

Inside Coys – Porsche 959 Cabriolet

The Terminator is a brilliant movie, easily one of the best films of the 1980s and entertainment at its best. Porsche must have been watching that film with a knowing smile back in 1984 because at the time it was developing its own Terminator. Three years later, the assassin was ready. Called the 959, this […]

100 Years of Automotive Ads

As the poet said: ‘April is the cruellest month… mixing memory and desire.’ For many of us this sums up our automotive buying fantasies – adolescent motor memories mixed with up to the minute salary busting desire. The crew most expert at tapping into, and manipulating, this emotional double whammy are the guys in creative […]

Oil & Ink Expo

art collective teases out the aesthetic of Oil and Ink

Lid Art

Are novelty helmets Kitsch or Cool?