Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Your Science Lesson For The Day: Seeing The Inner Workings Of A 9-Cylinder Radial Solenoid Engine
Ever since the advance of jet engines for aircraft, radial engines have declined to being something of a niche powerplant. Classic aircraft, certain stunt aircraft, and model airplanes are pretty...
Wintertime Daydreaming: 1961 Chrysler 300G – Springtime’s Siren Song
Days like today are why I detest winter months. I wake up, I look outside and I see beautiful, clear skies, sun forever, birds attacking the feeders in flocks. It’s a reprieve from the wet, the...
Eating Dirt: Serious Mud-Romper Mangling Footage From All Over The Place!
“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” That’s the quote, right? The big dude in the corner who usually gets by on sheer intimidation factor alone can get walloped by the...
Because GM Wouldn’t Do It: 1979 Pontiac Grand Am With A 455
If you look back at some of my musings of Pontiac in the late 1970s, you will often see me refer to a civil war kind of mentality within the GM division. On one hand you had those who were all about...
Classic YouTube: LeMans 1966 And How Ken Miles Really Lost First Place
Between the Ford v Ferrari film and a general knowledge of the 1966 sweep at the 24 Hours of LeMans for Ford, you probably have a fair understand of what happened to Shelby American driver Ken Miles...
Restrained Yet Deeply Customized, The “Volkstream” VW Bus Is Handcrafted Beauty
This is one of those SEMA vehicles from last year that caught me up for a moment…mainly because I had spent nearly most of the week walking by it not noticing it. When I walked down the aisle...
Morning Symphony: The 11,000 RPM JUN-Powered Subaru BRZ
If you’re preparing to make some kind of Fast and Furious crack, shove it back into the “venom” folder from where it came. This Subaru BRZ might look the part of an extra on one of...
Life Goals: A Max Wedge Mopar And The Ramp Truck To Haul It On!
As much as it pains us to say it, driving a race car around on an open flatbed truck is a risky venture anymore. Too often, we’ve heard the stories of race car and workhorse disappearing into...
Unhinged: Maybe The Train Needs Another Look After All
Every single time I make the trek into Southern Illinois, I’m reminded that Amtrak really does still exist. I never give train travel much thought. Either I just want to drive it myself, or I...
Morning Symphony: Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Competizione – Nothing Sound Like A Ferrari V-12
Ferrari crafted just over 1,400 365 GTB/4 vehicles between 1968 and 1973. Out of that production, only a handful featured the lightweight body, the plexiglas windows, and even fewer featured the 450...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Should OEMs Start Thinking About Keeping Successful Models Instead Of Engineering New Ones?
Of all the vehicles I ever expected to see the buying public clamor for, a Chevrolet Astro is not on the last. Along with it’s GMC Safari twin, the S-truck based Astro and Safari vans had a...
Rough Start: 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T – The Final K-Car Screamer, Thanks To Lotus
By the 1990s, fans of Chrysler products were full to the brim of K-car based vehicles and were ready for any kind of update. The minivans, the Daytona, the Aries and the Lancer all were getting long...
Classic YouTube: Chris Matheson’s Australian Top Bike Crash – Off The Bike At Over 200 MPH!
If you hadn’t counted on the physics of the wind against the human body at over two hundred miles an hour, you could be forgiven for thinking that Australian Top Bike racer Chris Matheson just...
