Author Steve Swanson

Resembling the love child of a Transformer and a Thunderbird, Big Wind is the Top Trump of fire fighting vehicles. 2021 marks thirty years since this machine made its official debut when it helped save the...

I’ll be honest, I had never heard of the Pistons & Props event. With the Goodwood Revival binned this year, many of us were feeling somewhat deflated and in desperate need of a day out with some old...

Fancy a BLT? How about a BGC? - I’m talking bacon guns and choppers… Feral hogs, descendants of European wild boar, number 3.5 million in Texas alone. They are causing millions of dollars of damage, not...

Meet Monty and Gigi, two Minis that are candidates for an ASBO thanks to a modicum of shed tinkering that’s made them obnoxiously loud and a lot of fun. They are the prized possessions of twenty...

This is the new 2020 Suzuki Swift Sport- Hybrid. It’s like the 2019 Sport except now it’s a bit slower and a bit heavier, and has a load of gadgets. Then there’s the price- we’ll talk about that later....

This just got better thanks to Covid. If that seems an outrageous suggestion let me clarify. Drive In Movie theatres are springing up all over the UK. Last Friday I had the pleasure of pizza with a celluloid...

The first images of the INEOS Grenadier emerged this month. The Grenadier purports to be an old school Land Rover for the 21st Century. A prototype was snapped at an Austrian test facility in June. INEOS...

You’ve seen the shows on TV. Two blokes from Iowa rummage around barns and pull out old Indian motorbikes and signs for Mobil Oil. In the UK we have Henry and Sam, not taking it so seriously, blagging old...

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...