Beautiful cars and beautiful women have always gone together like spuds and gravy yet far too often now the girls and the cars are in my humble opinion just not cutting the mustard. True pin-up loveliness is fancy lingerie and (whoa shock) pretty dresses not thongs and pointless nudity. Nudity is good yes but artistic nudity and page 3 are ever different things.

So i think we should now just have a little appreciation for Hot Rod Pin-Ups the best accessory for any car.

See you don’t need to be naked to be appreciated half of them are in full length dresses and they still look stunning.

Right first off, that has to be the best title for an art project I have ever heard!

A guy called Joe Stevens has taken pictures of vans whilst on his travels, all with the same composition and style since 1996 and now has put them all together for our viewing. Being a big fan of vans and especially American 70’s style ones I really like this. It is amazing how many of these 70’s relics are still around in what looks like regular use and because he has made sure he took the photograph in the same way every time when you just quickly look at them all it looks like a time line of one van changing through time.

I want van rental companies to allow me too hire one of these beasts for my holidays! I want these vans in that (mostly Californian) setting and nothing to do but relax on holiday. If I wanted van hire in London or something then fair enough get me a big white transit but sometimes you just need to escape in a shag piled boogie van!

You can see all the pictures here, choose your favourite, it’s really hard though as they are all so awesome!

This is mine…

I just saw this article on the Top Gear site and it made me so incredibly happy. Richard Hammond goes through his 10 favourite muscle cars, in no particular order and says a little bit about each one as to why it is so good.

The reason this makes me happy? One of them is the Ford Capri!

mk1 ford capri

And Richard says about it

Last, but not least, and the only UK entry, is the Capri – a British Mustang, a masterpiece. It has a black bonnet and all bonnets should be black by law.

Mine has a black bonnet, kinda.

The others on the list were:

ford mustang fastback

plymouth road runner superbird

dodge charger

chevy nova

chevrolet camaro

challenger and coronet

Barracuda

Looking at that list just makes me want to say screw my savings and screw climate change I need a massive V8 in my life and now according to Richard Hammond I have the perfect muscle car for it to go in!

This story wins the award for most dedicated motoring photographer in the world!

A British photographer living in America called Andy Willsheer was doing his usual shooting at Pomona Raceway in California when Steve Gasparelli’s 7000 horsepower funny car slipped on launch and started veering directly towards the Brit snapper, who calmly carried on pointing his camera at the out of control dragster to capture some amazing photos.

This is the series of pictures that he snapped.

Amazing photo’s I think you will agree but even more amazing when you remember this wasn’t with a zoom or something, as can be shown by this picture.

Balls Of Steel!