Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Unhinged: The GMC Hummer EV – What Kind Of Mea Culpa Is This?
0-60 miles per hour in three seconds, 1,000 horsepower, and…and I’m quoting the press release here…11,500 foot/pounds of torque. Those are the figures currently released for the...
Rallying Cry: The TUF253 Ford Escort At Summernats 33
Just about anywhere else in the world, the Mk1 Ford Escort is a treasure. Or a rally car. Maybe both. Okay, probably both. Small, light, lithe, and in the right hands wickedly potent, the Escort was...
Veteran Rehabilitation: Bringing A Sherman Tank Back To Tip-Top Shape
The only Sherman tanks I ever got to see during my military days were display tanks. The oldest tank I ever saw that wasn’t a pretty statue was an M60 Patton variant that was sitting on a back...
Rough Start: 1989 Dodge D150 – Cheaper Than A Cummins By A Wide Mile
When it comes to the 1981-93 Dodge pickups, you’ll find them in pretty much three levels of condition: Decent street truck, cared for but worn. Decrepit. It’s a Cummins-powered...
Morning Symphony: Waking Up The Warbirds
I loved walking out onto the flightline at sunrise. It’s quiet in much the same way you would experience camping at a hidden beach, or deep in the mountains. There’s just a little bit of...
Not Every One Died: The Story Of The Rescue And Revival Of LEE 1, The Very First General Lee Charger!
Dixie horn, big-block soundtrack, and two always happy go lucky Southern boys who never really did anything wrong flinging their bright orange Dodge Charger around the dirt roads of Hazzard County...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Dreams” by Van Halen (1986) Featuring The Blue Angels
How in the hell have we not featured this video yet? How? Before I knew everybody’s name in the band, before I knew one single album title, I knew Van Halen simply because of this music video....
Godzilla’s Guts: Tearing Into The New Ford 7.3L V8 To See What’s What
So we know that a Fox body mule is being prepped to take one of Ford’s new 7.3L OHV V8 engines. That’s awesome…we love to see that an engine that’s still piping hot from the...
1320Video’s Top Crashes Of 2019: The Bashed Racing Machines Of Last Year!
Kyle and crew are veterans of being too close to the track with cameras in hand. And that’s only part of what they film, especially if you know how 1320Video got off of the ground in the first...
The World’s Fastest Wood Planer: The Consulier GTP, One Of The Strangest Movers Ever Made!
The first time I actually saw one, I about broke my neck trying to determine just what the hell “it” actually was. It’s not everyday that I’m completely and utterly baffled at...
Long-Roof Life: 1994 Chevrolet Caprice Wagon With A Six-Speed And Drag Week History
Oh, was it so long ago that the station wagon was the butt of jokes? Too large, too unwieldy, too much woodgrain appliqué, too much fuel going down the throat of a V8 that had all of the cylinders...
Carburetor vs. EFI On An LS, Which Works Best? Westech Tests Both Of Them!
It might be the best technical competition out there. On one hand, you have the modern fuel-injection systems, computer-controlled, well past the mystery days of early EFI systems. They are simple,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s Your Best Speeding Ticket Story?
On this day in 1896, one Mr. Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, England, earned himself a place in the history books as the first individual to be convicted of speeding. Actually, Arnold had...
Morning Symphony: 1950 Oldsmobile Running The La Bufa Section Of La Carrera Panamericana
Here’s a race that I don’t think about anywhere near as much as I need to: La Carrera Panamericana. Originally a border-to-border road rally that ran the Pan-American Highway in Mexico,...