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Rare Kodachromes of 1950s Hot Rods to Send your Heart Racing

Motorcar racing has taken place at the Bonneville salt flats in Utah since 1914, but for three years between 1953 and 1955, one die-hard fan attended the races to capture the surreal scenes like never before– in brilliant Kodachrome colour. Don Palmer only published a few of the photos and most of his snaps have sat…

Honk if you Love the Subculture of Indian Trucker Art

I‘ve been itching to do something on the marvel that is the subculture of Indian Trucker Art, but I’ve been waiting for just the right reason to do it– and today I found it. Horn Please is a stunning documentary that encapsulates the kaleidoscopic age-old Indian folk art that found its way into the modern-day…

Presenting the Pussycar, the Maddest Cars to ever Hit the Streets of Paris

“In this world where everything is banal and ugly, we must know how to create the beautiful and unusual.” These are the words of Jean Pierre Ponthieu, quite possibly the maddest French inventor of the 20th century. In the 1960s, Ponthieu embarked on a new career in car design and created more than 200 small cars, given the highly unfortunate…

Oh Lord, Won’t you buy me a Gypsy Caravan…

Why would you want a Mercedes-Benz when you could buy a whole new lifestyle? The day that I have a backyard to park it in, mark my words, I’ll buy a gypsy caravan and turn it into my mobile MessyNessyChic clubhouse. And I found just the company to get it from… We’ve found each other by chance, my…

Car Crazy Father & Son are having the Garage Sale of the Century

Somewhere along the line, car-mad father & son duo, Paul and Chris Andrews, might have gotten a little bit carried away with their hobby. Next month, they’re selling off nearly their entire collection of cars to get down to something “more manageable”. They plan to settle for around 20 cars rather than their inventory of nearly…

The Subculture of Japanese Trucker Art

‘Lit up like a Christmas tree’ doesn’t quite cover it. Moving pieces of art, embellished with massive neon lights and bling-tastic chrome; something between a science fiction robot and a Las Vegas arcade. “Decotora” trucks (translation: trucks decorated with illuminations), are the emblems of an unlikely subculture to emerge in the last decade out on the…

Bonhams Found a Million Pound Private Collection of Rare Vintage Motorcycles to Sell

This weekend at a showground in Staffordshire, England, Bonhams is having the sale of the century for great British and American motorcycles. A £1 million pound single-owner collection of 60 incredible motorcycles from a private museum will go under the hammer on Saturday 17th October and an astounding collection of barn finds unearthed after more…

10 of the Raddest Vintage Rides Up For Sale this Season

The annual classic car sale at the historic Hershey Motor Lodge in Pennsylvania is coming up this October where you can be certain to find some rare old beauties emerging from their slumber. I had a poke through the auction lots to see what quirky barn finds and little-known restored classics will be making an appearance… 1. A 1961 Yellow Cab…

Colombia’s Beloved Jeeps Loaded with Everything but the Kitchen Sink

In the Coffee Triangle of Columbia, the locals worship an unlikely icon– the Willys Jeep, America’s military vehicle of choice during World War II. Every year in the small towns of Quindío, there’s a big folkloric parade celebrating the utility vehicles, loaded with (literally) everything but the kitchen sink. They call them “Yipaos” (loaded Jeeps) and they have become…

For Sale! The Last Cinema Bus

Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have originally sat in the late 1960s, when a fleet of seven of these custom mobile cinema units toured Britain, promoting modern production techniques to the industry. Britain’s then Minister of Technology, Tony Ben commissioned the customised Bedford SB buses to…

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