One Size Fits All Award: 4X4 Torsus Battle Bus Steve Swanson Articles It looks like a Dakar truck crossed with a hangover from a Judge Dredd movie. Officially it’s the world’s first heavy duty 4x4 off-road bus, and it is a 2020 recipient of the prestigious Red Dot award for...
The Little Austin on the Prairie – Classic Mk1 Mini Barnfind Steve Swanson Articles 1 Comment Are you tired of hunting down a classic project only to find your quarry is nothing more than a rusty turd? Don’t give up hope. Canadian, Al Dereski, a lifelong Mini enthusiast, has a message for you....
French Crepes and Rental Cars – A Route Napoleon Road Trip Steve Swanson Roadtripping In the month before the virus, the life of an Automotive Adventurer was so much easier. In early February, a simple plan had been hatched: budget flights, grab a cheap rental car and a full day's exploration...
The Stuttgart Sleeper – Porsche 924 Rallying Camper Car Steve Swanson Motorsport for the Poor The Baltic Circle Rally is a fifteen day, 7500km winter charity event that runs from Hamburg up to the Noordkaap in Norway and back down via the Baltic States, including a chunk of Russia. Competitors are...
Mintex Yorkshire Classic Rally Steve Swanson Motorsport for the Poor, Road Rallies 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...
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...
eBay Classic Car Clickbait – Rebels, Renaults and Manky Maserati Steve Swanson Articles, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars 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...
Damascus to Baghdad By Cadillac Taxi Steve Swanson Articles 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...
Mashed Swede Stash Steve Swanson Articles, Out & About 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...