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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Craigslist Rarity: Have You Ever Heard Of The 1971 Hurst Jeepster? We Hadn’t!

Believe it or not, but Jeeps haven’t always sold purely on utility or their military heritage throughout the years. Sure, that was the initial attraction of the early Willys CJ line, but over...

We Might Not Understand How Doing Donuts In A Duster Sells Bicycles, But We Aren’t Arguing…

We will be straight-up about it: we don’t get the correlation between ripping a beauty of a smokeshow in a Plymouth Duster and the sales plan for a brand-new bike, but we are not complaining...

Rough Start: A 1969 Chevrolet Impala In Red, Ready To Move, With Factory Tachometer!

Sometimes it’s the little details that catch your eye. In the case of this 1969 Chevrolet Impala crew cab, it was the factory tachometer. Not to ignore anything else over the 327/Powerglide...

BangShift Project Files: The Project Tetanus 1966 Plymouth Fury Gets New (Non-Rusted) Sheetmetal!

Joe Haber’s 1966 Plymouth Fury, a project car that has, for better or worse, become a part of the family, has proven to be at times a royal bitch-kitty, has been undergoing major sheetmetal...

Dead To Rights Sleeper: Watch This Old Chevy Truck Rip Middle Georgia Motorsports Park A New One!

We will never get tired of old work trucks that find a second life as street sweepers. You know the kind…beat-up bed, rusty in spots, a seat cover that’s probably thirty years old (at...

Petrolicious Checks Out A 1969 Dodge Charger – Real Hemi, Real Four Speed, Not Supposed To Be Green!

There will be argument until the end of time about this, but if you really, truly, must pin the musclecar era down to one vehicle, then it’s hard to argue against a 1969 Dodge Charger. There is...

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This 1941 Chevy Is Half Hemi Durango – This Is Daily-Driver Done Right, Folks!

The daily driver tends to be the scourge of the hot-rodder. It’s not supposed to be the cool car, it’s supposed to be the reliable beater that fires off every time, drives in...

Swedish Sensibility, Italian Styling, American Power: This 1981 Volvo 262C Bertone Coupe Is Packing a 5.0!

It’s fitting that a Ford powerplant has wound up in this 1981 Volvo 262C…according to the legend, Henry Ford II and a team of executives and engineers visited a Volvo manufacturing plant...

Let The Anger Go: UCSMOKE Goes For The Final Kill After A Rough Brashernats’ Outing!

For Steven Loader, the 2017 Brashernats proved to not be his lucky day at the skidpad with his Holden burnout car, UCSMOKE. During qualifying, one of the exhaust pipes came loose and barfed fire at...

Swagger Sled: This 1978 Ford Thunderbird Is A Luxo-Cruiser For The Open Road!

It is difficult to believe that the seventh-generation Ford Thunderbird (1977-79) was the best-selling version, but it’s true. For the three years it was produced, Ford cranked out just shy of...

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Morning Symphony: A 1993 Ford Falcon ED Without E.D. – Import-Legal Next Year!

The 25-year vehicle import rule bites. But until the law changes, you have to play by the rules, and for 2018 (when, if you start now, you’ll probably end up actually shipping your car of...

We Had Never Heard Of A Ford Courier “Sasquatch”, But They Exist! Neat Little Truck!

Are you familiar with the Ford Courier? Ford Motor Company’s knee-jerk reaction to the Toyota Pickup and the Datsun 520 was to strike a deal with Mazda to rebadge the B-1800/Proceed pickup and...

This 2010 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak Is Up For Sale! Bring A 727 And Get Ready To Party!

You know the Dodge Challenger Drag Pak as the race-only variation of Mopar’s musclecar. Limited run, big on power, weighs nearly 1,000 pounds less than the standard production model, and...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Welcome Back, British Insanity!

We might still be a week or so away from the official start of summer, but we don’t care…the sun is out, the days are long and hot, and there really is no excuse for not being at a show,...