Author Steve Swanson

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...

To any Hollywood directors out there, I would like to pitch you a story. There’s this guy called Helge Meyer, a lone wolf type, ex military and a committed Christian. There’s a civil war in Europe....

Resembling the love child of a Transformer and a Thunderbird, Big Wind is the Top Trump of fire fighting vehicles. 2021 marks thirty years since this machine made its official debut when it helped save the...

I’ll be honest, I had never heard of the Pistons & Props event. With the Goodwood Revival binned this year, many of us were feeling somewhat deflated and in desperate need of a day out with some old...

Fancy a BLT? How about a BGC? - I’m talking bacon guns and choppers… Feral hogs, descendants of European wild boar, number 3.5 million in Texas alone. They are causing millions of dollars of damage, not...

En vogue long before Range Rover made a 'Vogue', the Monteverdi Safari was one of the earliest luxury off roaders.  The exotic name added mystique to a humble, International Scout 4x4, dressed in Italian...