Author Steve Swanson

Sometimes you stumble upon a character from the past whose life was so exotic, admirable and adventurous you think, ‘This bloke‘s a legend’. Such is the case with my shout for a forgotten Tally Ho hero...

November 2021 saw an online auction of some classic and historically significant, heavy haulage metal.The late Roger Austin was a dedicated collector and conservator of Scammel lorries and fairground...

Ralph Bagnold is one of those Brits who quietly went about doing great things. He was a soldier, innovator, explorer, and feted amateur scientist. His odyssey of motor adventures melded the car to the desert...

Motors Corner is tucked down an alleyway off the Boulevard Stalingrad in Nice, on the Cote D’Azur.It’s a perfect location. Just across the street is the harbour and the Barque Bleue restaurant, still...

It looks like a Honda S800 - It is a Honda S800, except underneath the skin is a series 1 Mazda MX5. There’s a bit of Fiat, a bit of Ford, some electronic witchcraft and a touch of Yogic calm thrown in to...

The well-worn trope of the Riviera playboy driving his Ferrari retains validity. In Monaco you can still see “gentlemen” of indeterminate age cruising Casino Square, often accompanied by their...

In 1941 the man they called the Giant Sloth pulled off a blinder. After bluffing his way past HQ security, he convinced a General to let him form a new force of desert raiders to give Rommel a headache. The...

This is a SHERP, a tough little off road box on wheels that’s built to go where you really shouldn’t. The SHERP can climb metre high obstacles and scale 35 degrees. A relatively light body and those giant...

At MotorPunk we don’t often go crazy for out of reach supercars, but take a perfectly working Aventador, stick it on a set of tracks and then proceed to cock about in the snow with it ...well, that’s...