Shitshow – 1963 East African Safari Rally Steve Swanson Articles Shitshow- Definition*Noun -vulgar slang USA situation or event marked by chaos or controversy*Google Oxford LanguagesThe 1963 East African Safari Rally can lay claim to the title of a shitshow, virtue of...
How Buick Made Blackbirds Fly Steve Swanson Articles In the 1960s the Lockheed Skunk Works in Burbank, California, went ballistic, developing a Top Secret spy plane for the CIA. Under the ironic codename of Oxcart, they created the Blackbird, a Mach 3 plus...
The Real Transporter – Helge Meyer And His Ghost Camaro Steve Swanson CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 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....
Porfirio Rubirosa: King of the Ferrari Driving Playboys Steve Swanson Features, Uncategorized 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...
Vintage Scammels, Spielberg ripoffs and a million-mile Acid Trip Steve Swanson Articles 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...
One MPH To The Moon – NASA Crawler Transporter Steve Swanson Articles To get to the Moon you don’t just need to successfully get off the launch pad. You first need to get on the Launchpad. Hauling a rocket and its launch platform that weighs a combined 5200 odd metric tonnes...
A French Shed full of Citroens-Citromuseum Steve Swanson Out & About, Uncategorized It's not really a shed, it's a hangar, but it is French, and packed with Citroen loveliness ranging from the late forties to the millennium. Citromuseum is just off the Route Napoleon, on the...
The Cool Cat And The French Minx – Annie Soisbault and her cheetah Cheeta Steve Swanson Articles 1 Comment Sometimes motorsport heroes are linked with a furry companion. Currently we have Lewis and his bulldogs. Previously there was Donald Campbell and his teddy bear, Mansell’s bushy caterpillar, and Hunt, and...
Whitney Straight – The Maserati Maestro Fighter Pilot Steve Swanson Articles 3 Comments 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...