Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Morning Symphony: Jim Hall’s Chaparral-Powered 1970 Chevrolet Camaro
If this car doesn’t put a big-ass smile on your face, you are on the wrong site. Drag racing has a strong place here, but I’m more of a road course guy and SCCA Trans-Am racing is my jam....
Diving For Treasures: Gutting Out The Four-Door Square Body Inside Vice Grip Garage’s…Shop
Let’s just get this part out of the way right now: Derek is one lucky…um…guy. Why? I speak from experience when I say that finding a beauty who tolerates the car hobby is a gift,...
Rough Start: 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT – Stop Scaring The Kids
For the most part, if a younger individual were to ask me where to start looking for their first project car, I’d start at about 1993 and work my way newer from there. Parts are available, you...
Gifts For Neighbor: A New Look And A New Blower For Cleetus’s Party Barge!
I love this car. Absolutely love it. There is something perfect about a big-body cop car that plays like a smaller muscle car, drifts like a built Nissan with a few friends strapped in for the fun,...
Morning Symphony: Getting The Spirit With A Sleepy Turbo Dodge!
When the Dodge Spirit R/T hit the scene, it hit hard. Yeah, it had roots that dated back to the original K-cars, but it also had a gem of an engine, a turbocharged 2.2L Turbo III four that had seen a...
NCM Motorsports Park Expands: The Track Will Gain An Off-Road Obstacle Course
Reports are coming out that the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park is expanding. With $35,000 from the special tourism project fund approved by the Warren County fiscal court, NCM Motorsports...
Fatal Leap: The Alaska Car Launch – Limo Off Of A Cliff, Anyone?
I need to apologize to you, readers. I think I have failed in one serious move. Remember the Cadillac limo, the craptacular 1980 Fleetwood Formal extended-length beauty that I ran once at King of the...
Leap of Faith: Top Gear, WFO, 200 Feet Of Flight On A Dirt Bike!
The lead photo doesn’t do what you will see justice, so to better understand what you are seeing here, think about the legendary Buick LeSabre jump footage that still doesn’t have a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Car Would You Leap Into Infamy With?
The moment when Memphis Raines starts ripping gears towards the rollback wrecker, the Dixie horn as yet another Charger is offered up to the altar, the next stunt for a Fast and Furious...
The Ultimate Unloved: 1980 Dodge St. Regis Police Cruiser
At the end of the 1970s, the Big Three were all moving towards smaller, lighter machines. Or, at least, that’s how the story goes. GM actually did move to smaller, lighter machines, starting...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Would You Hop Up Your Lawn And Garden Equipment?
I reek of plant bedding. And cut rosebushes. And blood…because, rosebushes. It’s not spring yet at BangShift Mid-West, but when you have a clear day of weather, you do what you can and I...
Plumbed And Ready: Building The Hydraulic System For The Screw Tank Project
In my prior line of work regarding helicopters, I was an electrician, a technician, an armament tech, a vehicle maintainer, and just in case all of that wasn’t enough, I was responsible for the...
Money No Object: A Revisit On The Dirt-Tracker AMC With This 1968 AMX?
In 2009, one of the earliest exploits of the fledgling BangShift.com involved a 1968 AMC Javelin that had been built into some kind of dirt-track race machine of some kind that had changed hands a...
The Six-Door Ford Recovery, Part Two: Putting Finnegan’s New Milkshake Maker Back Together!
The damn truck is big enough to make two episodes without any problems along the way, you realize that, don’t you? I’ve seen smaller school buses…and no, not the short bus either,...