Author Steve Swanson

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...

  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...

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 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...

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...

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...