Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
On The 30th Anniversary Of The Accident That Ended Group B Rally, A Retrospect On Henri Toivonen
Auto racing is a dangerous sport. That hasn’t been contested since the automobile appeared, and certainly not after the first auto racing fatality. The addiction to speed, the desire to succeed...
Check Out This Creepy Introduction To A Historical British Police Special, A Rover 3500!
Here in the States, we have our historical cop cars: the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1, the Ford Crown Victoria P71, the Dodge and Plymouth 440-powered Pursuits, and more. In England, they have this: the...
Another Track Gone: The Nl’Akapxm Eagle Motorplex In British Columbia Has Shut Down
We never like to hear about another track lost for whatever reason, but unfortunately we find ourselves having to report that the Nl’Akapxm Eagle Motorplex drag strip near Cache Creek, British...
Crash And Burn: See How Burnouts Go Bad In This All-Aussie Compilation!
There isn’t one engineer at any OEM manufacturer on the planet that is able to prepare parts that truly hold up to the stresses, heat, and violence of an Australian burnout competition. No...
Sanctioned Street Fun: Ten Races From The Coffeyville Street Drags In Kansas!
From our perspective, the fact that the town of Coffeyville, Kansas even allowed something like a 1/8th mile drag race on the streets is pretty awesome, but that they let it happen with fans...
This Volkswagen Single-Cab Is Legit! Almost Three Liters Of VW Flat-Four Power Running Deep 13s!
The best way to judge just how far along your project has come is to compare notes to an original, stock example of your ride. Case in point: a 13.2 second quarter mile for an Australian ride...
Rough Start: One Survived! Someone Do Something With This 1977 Dodge Monaco That Doesn’t Involve A Cop Car Paint Job!
Do you want to know what karma looks like? Here goes: back before I wrote for BangShift, I used to enjoy Craigslist surfing, looking for the kinds of vehicles that would make Lohnes weak in the...
Morning Symphony: The World’s Only Street-Legal Ferrari FXX Running At VMax200!
The Ferrari FXX exists because the Ferrari Enzo wasn’t enough of a beast for the company. Think about that for a second. A Ferrari Enzo wasn’t enough. We all tend to write off anything...
Is The “Aeroscreen” The Answer To Formula 1’s Safety Issue? Check Out The Testing Footage For Yourself!
After the deaths of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon (2011), Justin Wilson (2015), Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi (2015) and the injury sustained by Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa when he was hit by a...
Australian Rough Start: This 1979 Holden HZ Ute Is Ready To Make The Trip Across The Pond On The Cheap!
It’s been a while since we perused Gumtree, the Australian analog to Craigslist, for a set of wheels. While there is plenty of quiet complaining about American cars heading over to Europe, you...
Alternative Sleeper: This Oldsmobile Cutlass On 22″ Wheels Can Run 10.3s As-Is, And Go Nines With The Proper Shoes On!
This is one of the best-played poker hands I’ve seen in quite some time on the strip. This G-body Olds Cutlass doesn’t look like a threat…22″ chrome Iroc-Z wheels, a...
Third Time Isn’t The Charm! Watch As The LSX Willys Windows Another LS Block!
“Two motors in two weeks. That’s gotta be a f***ing record.” It isn’t the record anybody wants to have, but it happened: Shortly after popping the original junkyard LS motor,...
Historical Footage: This Kaiser-era Jeep Commercial Is Neat! Forward Controls, CJs…and a Buster Keaton film?
Now here’s a neat find! Back in the 1950s four-wheel-drive trucks were few and far between, and usually created when one of the Big Three sent a truck to an outfitter like NAPCO to be...
