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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Stockholm Syndrome: The Stockholm Open-Winning Opel Ascona Went Full Bore At Drag Week

As 1320Video goes through their Drag Week 2017 footage, we have to make note of the Opel Ascona that Magnus Frost is infamous for. This is a car that is a legitimate, purpose-built street racer....

Can’t Be Any More Beat Than An Ex-Military Truck: Who Wants This 1991 HMMWV Desert Race Truck?

My thoughts on the HMMWV are pretty well cemented: they are killer off-roaders that are equipped with all of the luxury amenities of a gulag and have all the stump-pulling power of an old work mule...

The Joys Of The $600 Beater: Watch As This Big-Block Cordoba Gets A New Lease On Life!

There is a generational gap between accepted cars in mainstream gearhead terms. Between roughly 1974 and the late 1990s, there is a pretty large swath of cars that are ignored for one reason or...

Yee-Haw! Watch Just How Quickly The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Can Hit VMAX!

To just bluntly state that the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is fast is like saying the sky is blue: it’s going to elicit a lot of eye-rolling and a general vibe of “thanks, Captain...

Money No Object: An Unrestored 1969 Shelby GT500 In “Yes We’re Envious” Green!

The 1967-68 Shelby Mustangs might be more iconic and desirable, but for me, the 1969-70 cars just had something more that drew me in. Maybe it’s the wide-open grille and the hood that sported...

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That Was Quick! If You Want To LS-Swap Your Brand New JL Wrangler, This Company Will Help You Out!

We got our first pictures of the Jeep Wrangler JL at SEMA last year. It only got officially unveiled at the L.A. Auto Show, and the first ads went up for Super Bowl 52. Ok, all of that is fair and...

Unhinged: Couldn’t Have Picked A More Conspicuous Vehicle To Get Busted By The Cops In

If you are going to go about doing shady business as a lucrative money making career choice, what would you drive? Strange question, I know…while we aren’t saints around here, we usually...

Rallycrossing A Corvette…Blasphemy Or Beautiful? Watch This C5 Z06 Rallycross On Some Frozen Dirt!

If the first images you think of for the word “rallycross” involves highly strung four-wheel-drive cars powered by turbocharged engines…well, you’re right. You’re also...

A Relaxed Racecar: Petrolicious Takes A Look At A 1969 Mercury Cyclone 428CJ

Mercury didn’t have quite the reputation that Ford did when it came to street machines. Not that they didn’t have power: with NASCAR racing at DEFCON 1 against the Mopar teams, both Ford...

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Classic YouTube: Prototype Testing For The Lancia Delta S4 Rally Car

One of the more exciting things about the development of a new model is the spy photography that comes with it. The days of waiting to see the new models in September have been gone for years, but...

Rough Start: A Monte Carlo With Sidepipes…Because Your HOA Doesn’t Hate You Enough!

Every now and then, I like to use the phrase, “honest beater”. That means that there is no deception to the car you’re looking at…everything is up front and it’s up to...

Morning Symphony: Poking At A NASCAR-Powered Rover SD1

When the Rover SD1 line first appeared in the mid-1970s, the goal was to simplify the large British Leyland car line and to bring about an air of sportiness to the lineup…the Ferrari...

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Rough Start: The Chevrolet Bel Air That Has Been Hiding In The Garage Forever

The story is pretty much the same every time: it’s the car that has been in the garage for decades. Maybe it was started every once in a while, but more often than not it wasn’t. The...

Off-Road Square Bodies For The Win! Which One Out Of This Compilation Works For You?

1973-87 for the light trucks, 1973-91 for the heavy trucks and sport-utility vehicles. That’s the year ranges where you’ll find what’s commonly called a Square Body Chevrolet or GMC...