Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Classic YouTube: 1974 Volkswagen Dasher Review – An Earlier VW Move Away From The Beetle
Volkswagen recently made a big to-do about the end of VW Beetle production after a combined total of seventy years over three different forms (the original Bug, the New Beetle and the modern-day...
Barge Party: This Is A 1990 Lincoln Town Car That Rips The Strip!
The Lincoln Town Car is not a performance car. It just isn’t. It’s a big thing, thanks to it’s Panther-platform roots. It’s a stout thing, since the Crown Victoria gained...
Rough Start: The Twilight Of The 440 Plymouth Police Specials
1978 was the last year for the 440 cubic inch V8 in any Chrysler Corporation police vehicle. After years of being the ultimate option, with little challenge in the way from Ford, sporadic challenges...
Get A Look At How Things Work Via A See-Through Catalytic Converter!
As the interior was being ripped out of the Catalina, the sawzall was broken out and two cuts were made, then a large lump that looked kind of like a muffler was chucked out to the side. A much...
Snowmaro: Adding Tracks And Skis To A Hot-Rodded Power Wheels Is Too Much!
You almost wonder if the guys behind Grind Hard Plumbing Co. just sit around dreaming up wilder and wilder ideas. You have to…look at what they’ve come up with in a short amount of time:...
BangShift’s Question Of The Day: What’s The Weirdest Option You’ve Ever Heard Of?
While options were around well before it’s arrival, the 1965 Ford Mustang was the car that really clued in manufacturers to what options could do for their bottom line. Car customization was a...
Programmed To Slide: Stanford University’s Autonomous DeLorean Gets Sideways
A few years ago, a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 known as MARTY made headlines when it showcased autonomous drifting. “Big deal”, you mutter, “they got a remote-controlled car to drift....
Unhinged: Take Some Time And Get Your Mind Right
Hey, readers. I hope you had a good holiday season, whatever you celebrate, and I hope the hangover from New Year’s has finally subsided. Mercifully, the holiday season treated me lovely this...
Field-Bashing: A Low-Buck Race Beater And A Grass Field, It’s A Beautiful Thing!
I don’t know which adult in my life actually had the bright idea to cut me loose on a dirt road in a gutted and half-prepared Pontiac, but that decision sealed in some fates. Actually, not just...
The Fiero Revival: The Sum Of Many Months Of Detailed Labor
Watching how far Ronnie Finger has come with this Pontiac Fiero is amazing mainly because, in all seriousness, this guy isn’t a car guy. This isn’t somebody flexing knowledge and skill on...
Morning Symphony: Rear-Drive Rally Roar
Anybody else ready to puke if they hear “Auld Lang Syne” one more freaking time? Look, we’re all glad that 2019 is done and over with. At least, for sure, I am. The last twelve...
Miss Maverick: A Glowing Look At Ford’s Econo Car Turned Monster
We have a soft spot for the Ford Maverick and it’s fraternal twin, the Mercury Comet. You can look at it as a small Japanese fighter, yet another sporty re-skinning of the original Falcon, or...
Money No Object: 1958 Plymouth Fury – The One And Only…
Autumn red and white, red “as a fire engine” inside. A thumper of a mill under the hood, capable of a low, rhythmic bassline at idle and a banshee howl when booted to the maximum. One of...
