Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Classic YouTube: A Buick Wildcat Smokeshow For The Ages
A quiet road, nobody around, and a tidal wave of torque at the discretion of your right foot. If you can say, honestly, that the thought of signing your name in melted rubber hasn’t appealed to...
Money No Object: This 1969 Dodge Charger 500 Is The Pinnacle B-Body Mopar!
Dodge and Ford were at each other’s throats over NASCAR supremacy in the 1960s, and it was a consistently escalating war. Engines were getting bigger and more powerful, to the point that...
Outlaw Street Car Reunion V: Eliminations And Emergency Repairs In The Pits!
As the sun set and darkness enveloped Beech Bend, the progress continued on. Temperatures fell and the track stayed just as good, a testament to the work that Tyler Crossnoe and Kurt Johnson’s...
1,800 Horses Running: Watch How Quickly This Viper Dispatches The Half-Mile In Dallas!
For a quarter-century, the halo car at Dodge was the Viper. What started out as a “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” shot at recreating the magic and the violence of the...
Truck Trials! Check Out How Folks In The Czech Republic Play With Their Big Trucks!
It’s almost a rite of passage as a kid: those toy cars will, sooner or later, see a mud pit that will ultimately be roof-deep. Those plastic machines see all sorts of hell: splashing through...
Outlaw Street Car Reunion V: Afternoon Qualifications, Early Eliminations And That One Run…
As the sun crossed over Western Kentucky, the echoes of angry engines kept coming in waves at Beech Bend as the Outlaw Street Car Reunion V race went on and on. By now we were in the heart of final...
Anti-SUV: This 1994 Buick Roadmaster Estate Is Somewhere Between Practical Daily And Classic
The days of the long station wagon have been over for decades now, with the GM B-bodies the last true holdouts, dying off in 1996 in favor of more full-size sport utility vehicles. That’s just...
4/27: Paying Tribute To Ford’s FE Stomper In All It’s Forms!
Four twenty-seven. Cobra Jets, Super Cobra Jets, and Boss small blocks may run with it, but there is no doubt that Ford’s seven-liter race motor was a violent beast in it’s own right....
Short Course Racing! Check Out The New Short Course Track At Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park!
It’s not quite arenacross, not quite a rallycross, but it looks like a blast all the same. The short course that was just opened up at Busted Knuckle Off-Road Park in Stevenson, Alabama...
Rough Start: There Has To Be A Story About This 396-Powered 1975 Buick Skylark!
There is no way I’m buying that this 1975 Buick Skylark is being sold for $900 as you will see it in the pictures. It’s too together, too ready to go, and there isn’t one mention of...
Rough Start: A Two-For-One Deal – A 429-Powered 1972 Ford LTD And A Parts 1972 Country Squire!
The idea behind the Rough Start budget is to get the most for your dollar, right? Ok, then, we have located a deal for you Blue Oval types who can look past Mustangs and see potential in the big...
Outlaw Street Car Reunion V: The Start Of Saturday Morning
Saturday dawned, warmer than Friday, and every racer itching to get the job done. With Tyler Crossnoe’s decision to ax Sunday off of the schedule due to incoming weather, each run had to count...
Morning Symphony: 20,000 RPM From A Cosworth-Built F1 V8
Somewhere north of about 4,500 the 368ci mill in the Cadillac limo floats the valves. Most small-block Chryslers hate life above 6,000 RPM without serious work, and the most rev-happy V8 I’ve...
Unhinged: Ford’s Almost Total Abandonment Of The Car Market
Let this be the first thing I’ve written that comes with a prefaced warning: the opinions put here are mine and mine alone and might not completely jive with the overall view of BangShift....