Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Spoilsports: Subaru Will Not Be Selling Our New Favorite Forester Ever.
So, about a week ago, the internet lit on fire over a Subaru Forester. Not just any run of the mill Forester, mind you…they have all the excitement of a bowl of plain oatmeal gone cold. No,...
The Other Side Of The Coin: Day Of Destruction At Beech Ridge
Yesterday Lohnes showed you some of the awesome racing that can actually happen at a spectator drags event. Often, the images of these deals involves idiots in beaters working with bump-to-pass rules...
Ten In A Five-Pound Bag: Get A Listen Of This V10-Swapped Mercury Capri
Full disclosure: it’s after one in the morning and I’m wide awake listening to the wind attempt to rip the roof off of my house. I’ve been looking over so many ideas for the one...
Rough Start: 1971 Ford F-350 With A Handy Tilt Nose!
I don’t know why I’m picking on Lohnes lately. The man has done nothing wrong to me. But lately I’ve just had it out for him vehicle-wise. First it was that stuntman-ready Chevrolet...
Five Years Of Yikes: Drag Racing Close Calls And Carnage From The UK
Racing in the United Kingdom takes a bit longer to kick off than it does down in the states. Here, we just wait until Florida and Texas start getting beautiful weather and spread out from there. Over...
Money No Object: 1965 Dodge Coronet 440 Station Wagon
I never knew that I needed this car until I saw pictures of it. I don’t mind wagons at all. Except Chevy Cavalier station wagons, they can all get smashed flat for what I care. But RWD station...
Ford IDI Diesel…Good Or Bad? Get Both Answers Courtesy Of Our Friends In The North!
In the early 1980s, Ford decided that they wanted a diesel engine for their F-series lineup. They tapped International Harvester to help create a low-cost diesel that would work in the truck and the...
Classic YouTube: AMC Eagle SX/4…Better In The Dirt Than The Pony Cars!
Bless ’em, they were trying their asses off. American Motors knew they were in trouble in the late 1970s and they were trying everything under the sun to come up with a hit. They put four-wheel...
Like A Nitroglycerin Pill: 1989 Geo Tracker With A Blown Small-Block Underhood
Nitroglycerin as an explosive is a horrifying thing. If you shock the product, it explodes. When it does explode, it will fill a void with 1,200 times the original volume of the chemical as a gas,...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Worst Repair Job Out There?
I’ve been spinning wrenches on the Rough Start Mustang for exactly three days now. Rather, I’ve been blasting every spot of interior plastic with cleaner and I’ve been busy gutting...
The Car Catcher: When You Don’t Want To Run Over The Jaywalker, But Just Scare Them!
Between the holiday season and the return of students to the university, I’m just about sick of pedestrians. I don’t know what it is recently, but a combination of smartphone use,...
Handbuilt, You Say: The Real Story On That Blue Knockout Based On A 1984 Pontiac Firebird!
Last year’s top-pick Craigslist find for me was this…well, thing. All we knew was that it was based on a 1984 Pontiac Firebird and that it looked like something straight from a video game...
True Beauty: 1967 Chevrolet Corvette – When GM Knew How To Rule
The argument over which car is the most gorgeous of all time will drag on and on. It’s a matter of opinion, pure and simple. Some people prefer class and imagine the days of elegance and...
Money No Object: 1997 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 Twin Turbo – Corner Carving Heaven
Out of BS staff, two have their backgrounds laced with drag racing and I’m not one of them. Not that I didn’t drag race, but my heart has been in corner carving. Blame it on watching...