Author Steve Swanson

About the time you read this I was supposed to be occupying the navigators seat in a classic rally car on the Mintex Yorkshire Classic. The Coronavirus restrictions have put paid to my hopes for any semblance...

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...

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...

If like me, you find yourself with a little too much time on your hands at the moment you might find the classic cars section of eBay an irresistible draw for a spot of cyber tyre kicking on the hunt for a...

A hundred years ago, two Kiwis decided to get into the taxi business. It wasn’t your average Uber. Their drivers were an international bunch of hell raisers who wrestled V8 Cadillacs across 600 miles of...

There’s something about a scrap yard that draws me in. It’s the promise of scrambling about in mud and grime on the hunt for oily automotive treasure, or it could be because I’m a tightwad, I’m not...

Look closely at the photos accompanying this story. These were all taken within four blocks of the seafront at Nice (just before the planes stopped flying). They are just a few examples of the clapped out...

If you’re familiar with the title reference then you know I’m going off topic, but not too far, because if there ever was a MotorPunk with wings, this is our man. Forget the Hollywood hoopla, the real...

Okay, it’s been closed for years, the grounds are weed choked, and the racetrack itself is cracking up in places. True, it’s a figure of eight banked oval, so it lacks the style of Goodwood and the allure...