Author Steve Swanson

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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...

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...