Author Steve Swanson

Think of a Ratrod and a 1952 split screen Morris Minor, with a Chevy engine, probably isn’t first on your list. I found it in the middle of a US car show in Dawsonvile, Georgia. Amongst immaculate restored...

Each year in Liwa, there is a month long festival that kicks off with two days of petrol inspired mayhem featuring one of the tallest sand dunes in the world. The Liwa Oasis consists of a series of...

Dubai Business District hosted some prize pork in the shape of the Icons of Porsche Festival. Down on the waterfront, you could find early 356 incarnations to the latest Dakar edition 911. It proved a...

Recently, Hemmings ran a feature suggesting YouTube car channels you should watch. Here are MotorPunk's alternative YT choices. We've skipped the shows you likely know already, and left out million plus...

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...

Here's some pics from an impromptu Pit Walk at the 2022 Abu Dhabi F1 GP. Whilst Brundle has cornered the market with his race day Grid Walk , our Pit Walk, on the day before free practice, was a tad less...

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...

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 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...