Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Best of 2020: 1980 GMC C35 With Holmes 480 Towing Equipment
I swear, I’m not doing this on purpose. Teasing Brian with big trucks that we all know he loves dearly sometimes is fun. But I’m pretty sure that over the last couple of months, that...
Best of 2020: Check Out The Recovery Of This IH TD24 Crawler That’s Been Buried For 45 years!
There’s a line attributed to EOD bomb technicians. Reportedly, when asked about whether or not they were stressed out when it came time to defusing a bomb, the answer was something to the...
Best of 2020: Flogging A Hemi Daytona At Mont Tremblec With Extreme Prejudice
In some road tests, the video will start off with some basic driving, or maybe some clean beauty shots of the car parked up, perfectly polished, looking like you hope your potential dream machine...
Best of 2020: Subaru’s Forester Special For The Singapore Motor Show Is One For The Books!
(We’re still disappointed this didn’t happen. -Ed.) Outside of a couple of STi-swapped examples that I’ve seen courtesy of Pacific Import Auto in Tacoma, Washington, a hot-rodded...
Best of 2020: New C8 Corvettes Busted Street Racing In Bowling Green
(Editor’s note: One word, folks. OOPS. -ed.) The stories from back in the day are legend. On streets like Woodward Avenue and Telegraph Road in Detroit, teams of engineers from the...
Best of 2020: Cleetus Takes Toast, The Camaro To The Skidpad At Summernats For The First Time!
It’s a brassy move to go meet someone on their home turf with their own rules with the goal of showing up and showing off like you own the place. That’s why we had our eyebrows raised a...
Best Of 2020: The “WTF?!” Files: 1994 Ford Taurus SHO Truck
When Ford gambled on the Ford Taurus, there was a very strong concern about whether or not the flying potato shape would find success in the marketplace. Ford hadn’t been on the greatest streak...
Quick And Dirty: How Can You Make A Rough Rig Look Fairly Presentable?
I know this story, I’ve done it a couple of times on several vehicles, but the one that really stands out to me was the 1979-81 Camaro that was slated to be the replacement for my...
Story Time: The Good, Bad, And Downright Nasty Side Of BTCC With Legendary Driver Jason Plato
The best part of living life are the stories that you get to share with others along the way. I can say it for just about every single solitary year of my life: the stories that I have defy belief, I...
Money No Object: 1969 Shelby GT350 Race Car And Trailer
I can’t lie, I might have squeaked when I saw this thing. Check off the list: 1969-70 Shelby Mustang body? Period-correct Trans Am appearance? A legit racing pedigree and not just a dolled-up...
From Possums To Pack Rats: Learning The Trouble With Desert Vehicles!
Officially, they are Neotoma albigula, the white-throated wood rat. To anybody that isn’t a student covering the flora and fauna of Arizona, they are simply the local species of pack rat....
That Mythical Find: Extracting A Garage-Bound 1968 Mustang Convertible
If you grew up around anybody with their heads into cars, you have heard the stories. Back on the other side of so-and-so’s property is a Super Sport Chevelle that got wrecked and was put into...
Extracto Peugeotnium: Furze And The Trebuchet, Round Two
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall when the permits were requested for this one. “Alright, Mister Furze, everything seems to be in order here. You are…” (adjusts reading...
Whine And Scream: The Blower-Motor Barina Hits The Dyno For Tuning!
A four-door, V6 sedan from about 1990 usually is as exciting as the weekend plans of an ascetic hermit and are much less inspired. If you had your choice between the Chevy Corsica, the Ford Tempo or...