Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
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...
The Charger, Part 7: The Carlisle Crunch And Death By A Thousand Bushings
It’s been one year since the last update on my ’76 Dodge Charger. And I couldn’t be happier about that, because it means one thing: it lives. Compared to the fun I had with the...
Unhinged: An Unhealthy Fixation On An AMC Concord Sedan
In the world of automotive packaging, where style, performance, and utility are supposed to meet in the middle to create something consumers will buy, American Motors was an oddball. They started out...
Grand Pile: Pole Barn Garage Does Their Best To Make This ’76 Grand Prix Roadworthy!
There is no doubt that there is a stark difference in styling trends between the Musclecar Era and the Brougham Epoch that followed. 1960s cars were straight, crisp, purposeful. Early 1970s cars...
Green Giant: Dylan McCool and McTaggart Revive A Crusty Cordoba!
First and foremost: neither Dylan McCool nor myself plan on keeping this car alive. In fact, as I was driving down to his house to meet this Deep Sherwood Green tank, I was having flashbacks to a car...
Retrospect: Craig Breedlove’s Infamous 1964 Crash At Bonneville – No Steering, No Chutes!
We are saddened to report that Craig Breedlove, one of the most famous names in land-speed racing and a man whose name will forever be synonymous with Bonneville, has passed at the age of 86. ...
Unhinged: Are There ANY New Cars Worth Looking At In 2023? Let’s Find Out!
Forget getting preachy or writing some kind of prose…this is a straightforward question that deserves a straightforward answer. What new 2023 model year vehicle would be worth actually buying...