Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Rough Start: 1975 Mercury Bobcat – Enough Rolling Bomb Jokes!
Over thirty years of Pinto jokes later, can we look past all of that? Please? They’ve aged out of normal use. You find me someone using a Pinto as a daily driver that isn’t on it’s...
Hitting The Dusty Trail: Take A Tour Of This Converted TopKick Ambulance!
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of a setup like this: a large truck, a big box on the back to sleep in, and no reason to deal with anybody on the planet anymore. It made sense in my head, but...
Novakill: NASCAR-Powered, 9,400 RPM Nova From Hell On The Burnout Pad
Looking at all of the footage from Summernats 33, it’s easy to think that you are on another planet with the amount of smoke from the bushfires in the air. The daylight is orange, the haze...
Vanilla Vice: 1989 Dodge Diplomat AHB – Clean As A Whistle!
If you’re in your mid-thirties or older, there is only one automatic response that is appropriate for seeing a refrigerator-white Dodge Diplomat: “Oh, shit, it’s the cops!”...
Gotta Start Somewhere: Getting A Beater V6 Camaro Ready For A First Car
Oh, the memories of the first car…the learning machine, the ultimate disposable vehicle if you asked your parents. I knew maybe ten kids who got relatively new vehicles for their high school...
GT Wagon: 1972 Ford Gran Torino – Ford Longroof Goodness
The one-year-only body of the 1972 Ford Torino lineup was a visual sleeper hit: the deep grille, the small bumpers, the Coke-bottle shape of the car all came together just right. They only recently...
Big Boy: The Bandag Bullet In Action At Summernats 33’s Skidpad
There are two ways that you might know Bandag. One is if you are in a field that uses retreaded tires…Bandag is a retread company and they are the tire of choice for fleets like UPS. Or, you...
Patch Panel Pickup: Making New Parts For An Econoline Truck
The tin worm scares me like none other. Tiny pinholes are one thing, but if you have ever driven in Ohio, you know what I mean when I say “rot”. Body panels that are returning to the...
Saving The Critically Endangered: Bringing A Potential Last Remaining Truck
The last one alive…that’s a statement that carries some serious weight. A one-of-one build simply means rare. The last one means that there were more, and most of them are simply gone,...
Rough Start: 1971 Plymouth Duster – Rough And Rowdy
A sleeper hit for a gearhead flick, Dazed and Confused was filled to the brim with Muscle-era choice cuts. Which did you prefer: Pickford’s GTO, Wooderson’s Chevelle, or...
Legends, Mate: The Best Off-Roading Shots Of 2019 From Sick Puppy 4×4!
I could simply write one sentence about this video and walk away. Seriously, one sentence – The chopped-up Nissan gets rolled before the opening credits roll, how good can this be? – and...
Scaled Down Snow Wheeling With A Wooden Jeep Grand Wagoneer…Nice!
It’s been too long since we’ve checked in on Headquake, one of the more talented remote-control freaks we know of. This guy doesn’t just shoot great videos of his stuff in...
Wintertime Weirdness: Keep Adding Spare Wheels!
Ah, it’s wintertime in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means it’s wintertime in Russia as well. And that means that the folks at Garage 54 start building the weird stuff…and...
