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      Darryl Sleath
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      Steve Swanson
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Author Steve Swanson

Steve Swanson

Steve Swanson

Steve turns any opportunity to write about cars into a roadtrip. It's seen him ride shotgun in a Bentley Blower with Clive Cussler, and cross paths with automotive YouTubers in Canada and the US. His work has been published in Magneto, Classic Cars, Classic American and some magazines that no MotorPunk reader has ever heard of. When he's not writing or driving you can find him kicking tyres at seedy auctions and hawking junk optimistically described as Automobilia

Pape’s Progress – The Automotive Adventures of a Tally-Ho hero and his Austin A90

Steve Swanson
Articles, Roadtripping
4 Comments
In July 1955, an Austin A90 Westminster departed London on a mission to venture where no motorcar had gone before: a journey of seventeen thousand miles, from the North Cape of Europe to the Southern Cape of...

Fifty Shades of Junk- Aldon Autos

Steve Swanson
Out & About
  Aldon Automotive Salvage is in the prairie town of Lamont, east of Edmonton, Alberta.  The junk yard occupies one corner of town, stretching out across the grasslands for acre after lovely, rusty...

The Abominable Lotus- Classic Europa Suffers Identity Crisis

Steve Swanson
Articles
  If you are a fan of all things Lotus I beseech you, look away now. Recently imported from the US, this poor thing has been under the knife and it hasn’t aged well. Underneath the putrid, risible,...

Monteverdi Safari – Off Road Luxury For Seventies GT Man

Steve Swanson
CarClub 18-30 - The Cars
1 Comment
En vogue long before Range Rover made a 'Vogue', the Monteverdi Safari was one of the earliest luxury off roaders.  The exotic name added mystique to a humble, International Scout 4x4, dressed in Italian...

Ralph Bagnold – Long Ranger and Tally Ho Hero

Steve Swanson
Articles
1 Comment
Ralph Bagnold is one of those Brits who quietly went about doing great things. He was a soldier, innovator, explorer, and feted amateur scientist. His odyssey of motor adventures melded the car to the desert...

The Honda Mazda smashed-up mash-up

Steve Swanson
CarClub 18-30, CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Seventies cars
1 Comment
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 Car That Dared – The Blitz Buggy Battle Wagon

Steve Swanson
Articles
2 Comments
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...

The SHERP – Bouncy Buoyant Boxy Brilliance

Steve Swanson
Articles, Uncategorized
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...

Dont Sniff The Clutch! – Aventador Gets Tracked

Steve Swanson
CarClub 18-30
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...
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