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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

In The Pit: Hoonigan’s LS Fest West Playground! Burnouts, Drifting, Tire Destruction And Jumping!

LS Fest West is just as all-encompassing, just as unhinged, and just as wild as the LS Fest event in Bowling Green has been for years, no doubt. But there are three things that LS Fest West has that...

Mental Ward Playtime: No Prep Mayhem Action Footage Right Here!

The line between loving and hating no-prep racing is giant and clear as day. Either you love the idea of forcing car and driver to take the racing surface, all of it, into a bigger consideration than...

Unhinged: An SRT Jeep And Enough Leash To Hang Myself With

It’s no secret that I’d take just about any and every SRT-labeled product that FCA currently sells if I could swing the costs. Pick your poison, you can’t go wrong. Two door coupe,...

Color Me Green: Alon Vella’s 1971 Ford Capri At Street Machine’s Drag Challenge Weekend

Saying that you’ve got the fastest street-legal naturally aspirated small-block anything in Australia that can still wear plates and drive on the street is a statement, indeed. The anti-hot...

Street Racer Sled: An Air-Ride Equipped, Rat-Motor 1969 Chevrolet Biscayne Up For Auction!

Baldwin-Motion referred to it as the Street Racer Special. It flew in the face of common sense, but it was effective: you picked up a 1968 Chevrolet Biscayne with a 425-horse 427, a four-speed, and...

See What The Killer Saw: Get A Close Look At The Peterbilt 281 From “Duel”!

The scene is so ingrained into automotive television lore: a red Plymouth Valiant roaming around California, with a Peterbilt 281 hauling an old tanker trailer hot on his rear bumper. You don’t...

Best Senior Prank Ever: When The Cops Congratulate You, You Did Good!

May starts the wave of high school graduations that will take place across the United States. Approximately 3.6 million students are expected to graduate this year. That’s 3.6 million students...

Deep Blue: The Icon Kaiser Wagoneer Reformer Is Dream-Worthy!

The Jeep FSJ line, all of them…trucks, Wagoneers, Cherokees, all of them…share three things throughout their long run: a straight-up, no bullshit look that has stood the test of time very...

Rough Start: A Very Clean G-Body Malibu With One Teeny, Tiny, Six-Pot Hitch…

You had to hand it to GM for doing one thing right in the late 1970s: even though it was now the Malibu and not the Chevelle, the mid-size offering stayed true to the right old-school GM principals...

The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 Set The Lap Standard At NCM Motorsports Park: 2:05.59!

(Photo: ABI Photography) NCM Motorsports Park’s proximity to the Bowling Green Assembly Plant (read: Corvette Plant) isn’t by coincidence. The road course isn’t just for...

Unhinged: Since When Did Washing The Car Leave Me Hungry For A Dessert?

When Chad came down from the tower on Friday night at the Throwdown at T-Town, he walked up to one very irate human being, and it had nothing to do with being in the lift, or being on the camera, or...

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Rough Start: Get Over Your Anti-Sedan Stance And Pick Up This 1981 Pontiac LeMans!

I want to point something out to those who openly bash anything with more than two doors on it: the Chevrolet Impala SS, the big LT-1 powered B-body variety, is twenty-two years old at the newest....

Classic YouTube: Drifting The Mitsuoka Le-Seyde, Japan’s Answer To The Zimmer!

Are you familiar with the Zimmer brand? They are one of those companies that repurpose a new platform…in their case, Ford-sourced setups…and drape it in a body that looks like it came...

MudVic Saves The Day! Proof That A Crown Victoria Is A Badass Car!

Many auto journalists were keen to take a steaming dump on the grave of the Ford Crown Victoria when it finally ended production in 2012. They lamented that the car didn’t have a suitable...