Black Beauty: 1986 Ford LTD – A 460-Powered Anti-Taurus!
Jan 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Ford was playing with the whole bank on the line in 1986. The Ford Taurus program was either going to make or break the company, but Ford had to do something…after years of disastrous results...
Random Car Review: 1994 Dodge Venom – The False Start Or Testing The Waters?
Jan 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartMOPAR
In 1994, Chrysler was really stepping out into some wildness. After Iacocca had been sent on his way, Bob Eaton had taken the top billing at the company and Bob Lutz was having a ball moving concept...
Why It Broke: This Simple, And Cheap, Fix Can Make Your LS Build Last Forever Instead Of Wiping Out The Cam
Jan 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsENGINE, ENGINES, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
When Richard Holdener does testing, he does it at a level nobody else in the industry can keep up with. He’s likely to test up to a dozen combos in a day, he never spends just one day on the...
Ancient Brute: 1924 Mack Model AC – The Origin Of The Bulldog
Jan 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartBangShift XL, XL Online Find
Running or not, we have to wonder how a 1924 Mack AC is being sold for just a few thousand dollars. Was this a museum pieces that hasn’t been exercised enough? Is the 45-horsepower 471 cubic...
These Motorcycle Hillclimb Highlights From 2019 Show Just How Crazy These Bastards Are!
Jan 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsBangShift XL, XL Spotlight, XL Videos
Motorcycle hillclimbs are nuts. They are typically steeper and crazier than most truck hillclimbs and when you quit going forward that usually means the bike is flying one way and you are going the...
Classic YouTube: 1973 Southern 500 at Darlington
Jan 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartApex Video, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, RACING & ACTION, Videos
If you haven’t seen some of the higher-quality footage of NASCAR races from the 1970s on YouTube, you need to check them out. With Car And Track’s Bud Lindemann narrating, it’s...
The Dentist Treatment: Fogging Out A Mustang With Nitrous!
Jan 26, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
I have never played with nitrous. For that matter, I’ve only been in one car ever that was on the bottle, and when the driver wanted to show off the fun the blue bottle of happiness provided,...
Urchfab Tears Down The CB550: What Will Come Of This Cool Little Project?
Jan 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsHack of the Week, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos
It’s tear own time for the latest project form Urchfab. Matt is tearing stuff apart in an effort to make this thing cool and clean and we love him for it. We first introduced this project a...
Rough Start: 1977 Chevrolet Nova Rally – One Seriously Rough Bastard!
Jan 26, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
I grew up around plenty of people that would fall under categories like “shady”, “dangerous”, “unstable”, “criminal”, and just about every other...
The Truly Mental: Drag Bikes At Santa Pod Raceway
Jan 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart1320 Videos, BangShift 1320
A rundown of my personal bests: Top speed, 172 MPH. Fastest quarter-mile to date, 13.16@107 MPH. Fastest speed on a motorcycle? About eighty miles per hour on a fire road on a Yamaha YZ80 at full...
This Levi’s Edition 1976 AMC Gremlin Has Just 48,000 Miles On It And Is A One Owner Car! Make It Yours Dude!
Jan 25, 2020Chad ReynoldsCraigslist Find
Sometimes it surprises me that there are still one owner cars left in the world like this 1976 AMC Gremlin Levi’s Edition. After all, this was an econobox car in it’s day, and even though...
Hail To The Chief: The Perfect 1982 Jeep Cherokee Chief Is Available!
Jan 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartCraigslist Find
Any other day, any other vehicle, this would be the point where I would start complaining about a lack of interior or underhood pictures on a classified ad for a car or truck. Not that I’m a...
Classic YouTube: The First Demo Flight Of The AH-56A Cheyenne Attack Helicopter Prototype
Jan 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartHISTORIC, Videos
Arming helicopters was a relatively new thing when the 1964 Advanced Aerial Fire Support Systems (AAFSS) program was announced. Up to that point, any armed helicopter was a modified version of an...
Shreddy Life Is Building A Class 11 Volkswagen! This Is The Gnarliest Class At Baja Period
Jan 25, 2020Chad ReynoldsXL Off Road Feature, XL Videos
Class 11 is the nearly stock VW beetle class that SCORE runs in Baja and it is without a doubt the most difficult class to finish in each and every year. Any racer in Mexico knows that these...
