Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Revival Gone Wrong: This Bronco Did Not Want To Wake Up For Anybody!
For years now I’ve followed the exploits of Kevin and his fascination with bringing abandoned, unloved vehicles to life. For the most part, every one of his rigs has ended with some kind of...
Best of 2020: This Guy Built His Own Prosthetic Hand Setup With Aluminum!
Call it a toll of war, call it experience by years, but it is just a true, frank statement: I know way too many people who are missing limbs. Many have lost hands, feet, legs, eyesight and in many...
Best of 2020: The Ultimate Overshoot Accident At Rallye Coeur de France
Seeing rally racing crashes isn’t anything new. Fast little machine on narrow track usually equals some mangled sheetmetal and wounded feelings at some point or another. We’ve shown you...
Best of 2020: Street Car Takeover Bowling Green: For A Moment, All Was Right With The World
So here’s the full disclosure on how Friday went down: for some reason my heat-soaked brain didn’t comprehend that racing happened on a Friday for the first time in decades and I left...
Best of 2020: The Republic XF-84H “Thunderscreech” In Action
By nature, any aircraft is going to be loud on the outside. I’ve got a decade of experience in that world…APUs, turbines, propellors, rotorcraft, name it, it’s loud. Earplugs were...
Best of 2020: Racing Up The Derebasi Turns in Turkey!
It’s known as State Road D.915 and it’s a north-south route in northeastern Turkey, from Of, Trabazon to Askale, Erzurum. It’s 111 miles long and it crosses over some rugged,...
Best of 2020: Devin Taylor’s 2014 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon
It’s always fun to debate the merits of a street car that has performance numbers far and above what it should, isn’t it? Somebody says their car has “X” amount of horsepower,...
Happy New Year From Your Friends At BangShift.com!
Usually, we run our New Year piece on January 1st, but I think I speak for everybody in the room when I say that this year cannot be over soon enough. Look, let’s be very honest here for a...
Unhinged Top 11: McTaggart’s 2020 Year In Review
I think that the best way I can summarize what 2020 means to me, in one simple sentence, is this: “Somehow, I managed to not start drinking again.” Holy hell, who pissed off what god?...
Best of 2020: Getting Up-Close With The Period-Correct Pro Stock Dodge Challenger
What can I say…everything fell into place just right for this photo shoot to happen. After Kevin from Junkyard Digs tipped me off to a Marketplace ad for a 1971 Dodge Challenger that looked...
Best of 2020: This Swapped Honda Insight Dropped Jaws At Rocky Mountain Race Week!
In one lane, a red Shelby GT500. One of the first “new” Shelby Mustangs, the S197 hot rod was 500 horsepower of red-blooded Blue Oval that straight ripped. Forget all the Cars and Coffee...
Best of 2020: Fixing A Dump Truck’s Broken Rear Axle In Pakistan
If there was one really big automotive take-away from my time spent in Iraq, it was that if you had a medium-duty truck of just about any type, you had the ability to work. Flatbed, dump, stakebed,...
Best of 2020: This Kid Drives A Truck And Runs The Gears Better Than You
When I was nine years old, I thought I was leaps and bounds over everybody else by being able to drive a car. Get in, start it, move it around without hitting anything, even drive it around a little...
