The ’69 Chrysler Newport has always been a favourite of mine amongst American muscle cars, it came with either a standard 383 cubic inch V8 or the optional 440 cubic inch V8 and had one of the coolest sets of flip-into-the-grill-headlights ever seen on a production car.
Nicknamed “Gorilla Punch” this bike started life as a Honda CB750, the Wrenchmonkees stripped it back to nothing and built their own custom café racer from its bones.
The idea of coming home from work and placing a glass of cold beer on a coffee table made out of a Jaguar V12 milled from an aluminium mono-block has significant appeal to me. The block isn’t just for show either, the same company that produces these coffee tables also sells vehicle-ready V12 blocks
There’s something iconic about racing posters such as this one, it’s almost as if back in the time before microprocessors and Photoshop the only people employed to make advertising materials were real artists, earning their crust. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen some magnificent Photoshop work in my time, but nothing as iconic as this 1970 1000 kms de Spa race poster. It’s just beautiful.
This retro Corvette poster just made my day, the ’58 Corvette is one of the best looking American cars ever made as far as I’m concerned and the gorgeous minimalistic graphic design of this late-50s advertisement does it ample justice.
Well-drawn cutaways are always mindblowing to me. The sense of perspective and innate engineering knowledge required to produce something like this from scratch is…
It boggles the mind to think how much skill, talent and patience it must have taken Carlos Alberto to create this fully-functioning laminated hardwood…