This isn’t a story about a business and the fruits of their labour. Rather it’s the culmination of one man’s work and passion. Although in its relative infancy as a registered business, Milestone71 and head man Richie Payne, started to build its foundations many, many years ago. Watching his father repair cars in the family-owned [...]
Do you remember the first car magazine you ever bought? Mine was a copy of Mini World in 1996 and I remember it vividly. On the cover there was a really cool yellow racecar that was completely stripped-out and barely road legal. In fact, I’m not sure if it was road legal at all. It was [...]
In yesterday’s event overview, I spoke about how Dubshed rewarded your curiosity. There just always seemed to be something waiting to be uncovered, or something that you could easily miss on first viewing. I’ve tried to put together a selection of cars that really embodied this thesis for me, whilst all being different in their [...]
How do you approach a regular car show? Do you arrive, walk around for a bit, hope to stumble upon some good things and then head home again? Do you arrive early before the doors open, or do you casually stroll in shortly before things start to wind up? Do you follow the proceedings of [...]
Hi all, I’m Steve, a long term motorsport fan and general addict of all things motoring. This is my first time on Speedhunters, so please be gentle! About two years ago, in an effort to try and capture some of the memorable moments from the sports I enjoy watching so much, I decided to buy a DSLR [...]
In the Volkswagen scene there are a handful of automotive painters that consistently knock it out of the park. Say their name and you know that the car’s bodywork is going to be nothing short of flawless. Greg Howell is one of these ‘go-to’ guys. A bit like this Mk1 that he has lovingly put [...]
Both Paddy and myself pretty much died and went to heaven when we saw the trio of quattro cars at Ultimate Dubs last weekend. The vehicles owned by James Dorey, Dave Rowe and Hamish White have all been home-built. A truly mind blowing amount of dedication has been put into these Audis and I am [...]
If I could use some words to describe this car, they would probably be ‘high impact’, and ‘maybe not for everyone’. Personally, I absolutely love the look of this amazing machine, but then I could be accused of being very slightly biased. Why? Well, I kind of feel like I’m this B5 Audi RS4’s godparent. [...]
I have been seriously into the Volkswagen scene for at least a decade now, attending various shows across Europe from Edition 38 to the annual pilgrimage that is Wörthersee. But this year I am particularly excited to get out to the events. I’m not sure exactly why; maybe it was the lack of internet chatter [...]
Don’t worry, I will not be launching into any chat about that terrible runaway train movie* with Denzel Washington and that dude out of My Name Is Earl. No, this is an Unstoppable story of a different kind. This is a much more interesting one that features a Volkswagen Golf GTi and a guy named [...]
In your head will be the perfect workspace. It might be buried under a pile of magazine articles or lost in the middle of project plans that have yet to come to fruition, but it’s there. For some it will be clinically clean: tiled floors, tools aligned in unison waiting for usage. Others may crave [...]
Forced Induction – two words that deliver beautiful feelings, images and sounds to car culture nutters across the world. Being such a massive part of our scene, we decided to dedicate a whole magazine to the wonders of boost, and as you can see from the cover, we take a closer look at a crazy [...]
1980s Week on Speedhunters has been a stark reminder about one of my own personal cars from that era. When I look at my 1989 Volvo 245 estate, I wonder what it could have been by now if I’d have realised that it was a proper project car and not just a bit of fun. [...]
There are plenty of different ways I could do this, but as some of my fellow new Speedhunters have opened with a discussion about how amazing it is here, a point on which we all agree, I’ll move on. As part of my year end indulgences I’m going to discuss the breadth of car [...]
I felt like banging my head against a wall when I first saw Dean Meeson’s Lotus Esprit, that was at the Retro-Rides Gathering back in August. I’d known of it’s recent completion having seen the car on a forum thread, but as we all know the real world is so much better. So why was [...]
