Category Archive: Motor

Few things move people like cars, and few people take photos of them like we do.

10 Oct

Saitama Air-Cooled Car Yard

Saitama Air-Cooled Car Yard

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Students of automotive design and history will advise us the death of the rear-engine air-cooled car was dictated by …

 
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18 Jun

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

The Shuto: Tokyo’s Elevated Expressways

Words / Photography © Skorj / Magnesium Tokyo’s Metropolitan Expressway — Shuto Kōsoku Dōro — is Tokyo’s answer to handling large volumes of traffic traversing the …

 
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30 Mar

Race Queens in the Modern Age

Race Queens in the Modern Age

In the 1999 film ‘Messengers’ one of the protagonists says to our Lycra-clad heroine, ‘You look like a race queen’. Parochially translated for American audiences as, ‘You look like a slut’, this missive unintentionally sums up the role of race queens in the modern world.

 
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16 Jan

Hot Wheels.

Hot Wheels.

Tough guys, dweebs, mothers, stoners, ramen cooks, flower girls, beer delivery, geeks, goths, salarymen, plasterers, postmen, kids, oji-san; sometimes it seems as if every sub-culture …

 
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14 Jan

Boy’s Toys – Vintage Bikes in Tokyo

Boy’s Toys – Vintage Bikes in Tokyo

Photos by Brian Scott Peterson / Magnesium Photos Text by Jim O’Connell / Magnesium Photos The feeling of entering these shops is not unlike that of entering …

 
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06 Jan

Audi R8.

Audi R8.

In enjoying cars & motorcycles, to me there are only a few standout machines & few of them have electrified me as much as the Audi R8.

 
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06 Jan

The Headlights are the Windows of the Soul.

The Headlights are the Windows of the Soul.

Photos by Brian Scott Peterson / Magnesium Photos For over a  century car makers have known the grill is the face of the car whether its …

 
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05 Jan

Retro Style

Retro Style

Text and Photography by Skorj / Magnesium The last decade has seen the Tokyo Motor Show move from one of the most glamorous, over-the-top, motoring events …

 
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01 Jan

Gallon Power Racing

Gallon Power Racing

This was the photo that inspired the yet to be published series, “Analogue Bike.”

 
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