Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
BangShift Project Files: What To Do With A Languishing Thunderbird…
The MN-12 Ford Thunderbird. It’s almost a forgotten car at this point…the few I see still running around are on their fourth or fifth owners or they are rotting behind a building...
Classic YouTube: Travis Pastrana’s Moto-X Freestyle Run At The 2000 X-Games
In person, Travis Pastrana is one of the most chill, friendly people you’ll ever meet. If he’s got the time to, he will stick around and chat with you and make you feel like you’re...
Dakar 2018: The 40th Running Of The Brutal 14-day Rally Raid Run Kicks Off Today!
Today is the day that teams from around the world will start the 40th running of the Dakar Rally, without question a pinnacle point in automobile racing. It’s an endurance run, it’s a...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Are You Looking Forward To Anything That May Debut At This Year’s Detroit Auto Show?
We’re just a little over a week away from the 2018 North American International Auto Show, a.k.a. the Detroit Auto Show, and we’ve been monitoring the rumor mills and waiting to see what...
Morning Symphony: A Big-Block Malibu Suffering From A Condition Called “Swine Flew”
Racing isn’t going to happen around my neck of the woods anytime soon, it seems. Even my weather app on my phone is getting pretty specific about which body parts are going to freeze off if I...
Pre-Mustang: This 1963 Mercury Comet S-22 Is A Fun Little Freak Of A Car!
When the Edsel brand was binned in 1959, a project for a smaller vehicle that was originally supposed to be an Edsel branded car got thrown into limbo. Called Comet, the model initially was an orphan...
The Farmtruck Burnout Machine? The Guys Built (And Wrecked) The Burnout Farmtruck At Summernats!
Farmtruck and AZN had a ball last year enjoying the sights and sounds of Summernats, the crazy Australian gearhead get-together that is currently underway. They loved it, but when approached to make...
Money No Object: A Flip-Front, 426 Hemi-Powered Power Wagon!
The 2018 Barrett-Jackson auction is completely full-up. They have maxed out their docket for the Scottsdale, Arizona auction and there are some very neat gems in there that will give the enthusiast...
Question Of The Day: When Did You Want To Hang The Engineer Of Your Car?
If you were anywhere on the engineering team that packaged up the Chrysler LX platform, you are not my friend right now. In fact, I’d be seeing blood red if it weren’t for the fact that...
All Rocket, No Rice: 1320Video Shares The Baddest Imports They Filmed In 2017
Cracking a cheap Fast and Furious joke at a Honda revving their way through a Cars and Coffee meet-up is one thing. But writing off an entire swath of car culture just because they don’t do...
Here’s Something We All Can Enjoy: A Small-Block Powered Porsche 914 Running Elevens!
The Porsche 914…the half-hearted Porsche. If you’re unfamiliar with these things, here’s the quick and dirty version: Porsche wanted to replace the 912 and Volkswagen wanted to...
Strange Days: Nissan Is Working On Brain-To-Vehicle Technology
(Lead Photo: Nissan USA) Have you ever seen the movie Strange Days? It’s from the early 1990s and it’s one of my favorites for many reasons which I will skip, but there is one connection...
No Dixie Horn? Watch As This Kia SUV Jumps Over Traffic After Hitting The ATM!
Elsewhere today you will read about the Kia Stinger GT, a five-passenger sedan with rather shocking acceleration. Apparently, that entire review was for nothing, because the way this Kia Sportage SUV...
