Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Desktop Build: A Detailed Build Of A ’77 Dodge Warlock Model Kit
How long has it been since you put a model kit together? We’re talking paint, cement, the whole nine yards. My last one I built in 2017, the MPC “Fuzz Duster” 1980 Plymouth Volaré...
Not Muscle: This Basic Dodge Coronet Comes Back To Life
Yes, wild and hairy cars were built between 1964 and roughly 1972. Wild colors, nuclear option engine choices, exhaust notes that could make the dead perk up and take notice…they existed. You...
Body-Swapping A Chevy Van To A 4×4 Frame Is Easy…If You Believe Pole Barn Garage!
When you live in the areas of the continental United States that regularly see snow, ice, and other forms of absolutely crap weather, a four-wheel-drive vehicle is almost the only option. It’s...
This 1967 Ford Falcon Is Nice, But It Could Be A Lot Nicer!
It’s common knowledge that for every legendary dream machine of the 1960s, there was a much more pedestrian and common form that shared at least 75% of the basic composition and bones. For...
Classic YouTube: The Rambler That Rallied Through A Third Of The World
While AMC was sorting out their overall image in the 1960s, moving away from the leader of American compact cars and into areas like full-size cars and muscle cars, truth be told they always did...
Morning Symphony: The Small-Displacement V8 Bark Of A Lamborghini Silhouette
Growing up as a car-obsessed kid in the early 1990s, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you could count the models of Lamborghini on one hand: Miura, Countach, LM002, Diablo. The Miura was the...
Unhinged: How Clean Is Too Clean?
If there is a cleaner example of a 1975-1979 Mopar B-body than Jim Rief’s 1977 Dodge Charger SE, then it is socked away in a corner of a museum that is owned by Stellantis that nobody is...
The Charger, Part 8: Fixing Gauges Once And For All With Classic Instruments
In our last update on my Charger, I had just dragged my heat-soaked hind end from a 1,500-plus mile roadtrip to the Chrysler Carlisle Nats and back home again, with not one hint of trouble from our...
Unhinged: Hey, MoParty Crybabies – Stay Home Next Year, OK?
(Lead photo: Justin “Corndog” Cornette) This past weekend was the fourth-annual Holley MoParty. In case you aren’t familiar with the program, Holley takes the show formula that they...
Carlisle Chrysler Nationals 2023: Hot, Hot, and Seriously Hot!
Ask anyone who was at Carlisle this year for the Chrysler Nationals, and they’ll use one word: hot. We aren’t talking “yes, it’s summer” hot. We’re not talking...
Carlisle Chrysler Nationals 2023: The Mopar Faithful Return To The Fairgrounds In Droves
The fairgrounds at Carlisle have hosted automotive get-togethers for what seems like forever. 80-something acres of show field with marked-off parking means that you can pack in the crowds. And with...
Unhinged: The Charger’s First Major Roadtrip And The Chryslers At Carlisle Experience
In between BangShift Mid-West to the Carlisle Fairgrounds sits 685 miles of open highway. In any modern car, that’s a cakewalk. If you were driving, say, a 1993 Dodge Daytona IROC, you’d...
