Author Steve Swanson

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...

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...

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...

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...