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Cars, art, design, sci-fi, Calvin & Hobbes and dogs, mostly. 🚫AI. One of those vegan petrolheads you hear about. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mrjalco Website: www.mrjalco.co.uk

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · Jan 14

It’s about time I introduced myself again. I’m James, an illustrator, designer and writer from the UK.

My obsessions are cars, my dog Winnie and sci-fi. I’m currently working on a new sci-fi IP.

You can see my nonsense at mrjalco.co.uk or www.youtube.com/@MostlyAboutDriving

Cheers!

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, science-fiction, Batman, a bird and Star Wars.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including Ken Miles GT40, a Honda CRX, a series of “Mini Mashup” pieces and a very lovely blonde Labrador.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, a mashup of a Star Wars TIE bomber and a VW camper van, a sci-fi spaceship and a black and white comic strip featuring a VW Polo G40.

A collection of hand drawn and digitally drawn art pieces, including race cars, a Wipeout ship, a Star Wars scene and a fake movie poster for an imagined Judge Dredd “megacity multiverse” film.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 2h

If you like orange and fancy a big, supercar-fast open-top tourer, I wrote about something that may well be your bag…

www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/...

2014 BMW M6 Convertible Competition for sale by auction

Check out this 2014 BMW M6 Convertible Competition auction on PistonHeads. Stop dreaming and start driving.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 5h

Ditto. Think it may be from another market too…

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The Motoring Podcast @motoringpodcast.com · 5h

Better news about the JLR hack. They are stumping up £500M for suppliers. Some production begins. Gov STILL hasn't signed guarantee for part of loan.

Available now!

To 👂 via streaming click 👉 www.motoringpodcast.com/episodes/202...
To 👂 via other services click 👉 mpnewsshow.captivate.fm/listen

Fudge - 7 October 2025 - Motoring Podcast

We start with Follow Up as JLR’s woes still continue but there is more progress. September 2025 new car registrations are covered. Renault are looking to shed up to 3,000 jobs. Renault and Dacia UK cu...

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 5h

This week is just not happening for me.

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Cardle

Guess the car in 5 tries. A new car is available each day.

www.playcardle.com

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 15h

From where I grew up: Old Hill (“owd’ill” to locals)

From where I lived as an adult: Aspatria (“spee-at-tree” to locals)

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 15h

Beautiful work mate. That’s a lovely work space.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 16h

To celebrate finally finishing my new table set I got some little touches to make it feel more useable in them encroaching long nights. The overground tube fabric cushion was more silly a idea but now feels incredibly fitting. Now to make the rest of the space as nice. #woodworking

Now completed workshop table set with standing and rolling table

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Ian @hubnut.bsky.social · 18h

My first time in a six-cylinder Rover SD1! 2300S with Triumph's final engine. Great day at work! youtu.be/JjGoxo-zO7E

Triumph's final engine, in a Rover? SD1 2300S automatic is so HubNut!

YouTube video by HubNut

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 18h

Too kind fella. And company that I don’t really deserve to be in. But thank you 👍👊

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Juanma is Creating Lightly 🎨🖌😬 @creatinglightly.art · 20h

I tell artists often to "keep inspiring" or that they "inspired me" with their art.

This is exactly what I mean.

I remember having told this to people like @alfie.photography @mrjalco.bsky.social @liamwong.com @paulscottcanavan.com @ziqqix.bsky.social @maddybellwoar.com @willpierce.bsky.social ❤️

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 18h

We all have different spheres of knowledge - this was very much in my blind spot.

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

Striking out two days in a row. Bummer.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 1d

Mileships outtake

Digital painting, a flock of flying ships at sunset. Or sunrise

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 1d

Quick spaceship sketch. 'Spiteful Interceptor', built by Jeffery & Co.

#Spaceship #Illustration #SciFi

A digital illustration of a spaceship. Wedge-shaped, with a small cockpit right at the front. A section of the middle is cut away. Grey and red in colour.

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Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 1d

23k-Mile 1989 Ford Mustang Saleen SSC

Bid for the chance to own a 23k-Mile 1989 Ford Mustang Saleen SSC at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,555.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

Gobsmacked that the Legacy has survived Scottish road salt. As magnificent as they are, those things dissolve in the wash…

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Vaishali Dinakaran @vaishdinakaran.bsky.social · 1d

New writing in the print-only The Road Rat. It’s a really small piece, but getting to be part of Issue 21 of this beautiful car quarterly was very special. Especially since it’s a love letter to Formula 1, and because I got to write about Niki Lauda. Get a copy here: theroadrat.com/products/edi...

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

I hear very good things about Croatia.

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

I used to live a mile from the coast, sandwiched between a dairy farm and two sheep farms. It was a constant battle. You have my sympathy.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a Huracan.

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 2d

Hello! The MILESHIPS Backerkit shipping email has now gone out to all backers. If you backed the project you need to fill in your address and card details now. Cheers!

Cover of the ‘Mileships’ book by Ian McQue & Jim Rossignol

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 1d

I’d never own one, even if I had the money. But if you are going to Lamborghini, then bright orange/green/yellow is the way to do it.

If you’re going to get wet, you may as well go swimming.

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mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 2d

Something is bound to go terribly wrong, but I live in hope.

mrjalco @mrjalco.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah me too. Old Fezzas and US muscle cars I’m fine with. Anything else before the mid-70s and I’m getting hazy…