Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
BangShift Project Files: Re-Working The Hood Of A Plymouth Arrow Properly
Ok, here’s a fun question for you: how much butchery did you perform during your early days messing with cars? We’re talking high-school level stuff here, so if you want to raise your...
Unhinged: Who At Ford Was Championing This Particular 1980 Mustang Look?!
From the first photo I saw of it, I knew that the 1980 Mustang Ghia that we refer to as the Great Pumpkin Mustang was…how to say this nicely?…unique. I’ve seen just about every...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Them Duke Boys Got Fancy!
x 1. Tell the Duke Boys to try harder. The current jump for distance for a four-wheeled vehicle is Tanner Foust’s 332 foot launch and the longest attempted to date would have been 360 total...
Winter Workshop: Building The Frame For Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Four Wheel Drive KTM Jeep!
As winter progresses and Idaho remains nice and cold, work progresses on Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s latest pint-sized and overpowered endeavor, the four-wheel-drive KTM-powered Jeep build. There...
Would You Rather: Perfect Restoration Or Solid Pro Touring? Make The Call!
There’s nothing like standing between two great choices and being told it’s either one or the other. And today, we aren’t making it any easier on you, because you are getting two...
Black Beauty: 1986 Ford LTD – A 460-Powered Anti-Taurus!
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?
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...
Ancient Brute: 1924 Mack Model AC – The Origin Of The Bulldog
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...
Classic YouTube: 1973 Southern 500 at Darlington
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!
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,...
Rough Start: 1977 Chevrolet Nova Rally – One Seriously Rough Bastard!
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
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...
Hail To The Chief: The Perfect 1982 Jeep Cherokee Chief Is Available!
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...
