Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Rough Start: What Rough Start? This One-Owner 1977 Ford LTD II Might Empty The Bank, But What More Could You Want? (Besides Smaller Bumpers…)
There is always something to be said for finding a gorgeous, one-owner car that has been babied all of it’s life up for sale for a decent price. It’s a rare event and not something to be...
Which Supercharger Is Best? Engine Masters Takes A Look At Two Budget-Minded Boost Possibilities On The Ford 363ci Yanked Out Of The Raunchero!
Boost…it is addictive, it is fun, and normally, it’s a bit expensive to do. Superchargers can provide enough pressurized air to make the drive a lot of fun, and blower whine is always so...
eBay Find: This 1968 AMC Rebel Is As Close As You’ll Get To The Original “The Machine” Prototype!
The standard picture for an AMC Rebel with “The Machine” package is pretty standard across the board: AMC’s somehow not a full-size midsize two-door hardtop, with the trademark red,...
BangShift Tune-Up: “My Favourite Game” By The Cardigans (1998)
Do you remember that mid-1990s song “Lovefool”? Don’t lie, everybody knew that song…whether they wanted to or not. It was everywhere. It was like a plague. The Cardigans, a...
Morning Symphony: The Gumpert Apollo S Is As Snotty And As Powerful As The People Who Can Afford Them!
There is a phrase that I’ve only recently become familiar with that has an, to me at least, an interesting context: “F___ you money”. If you’ve seen the movie “The Wolf...
Headbanging And Carnage: Check Out “The Sound And Fury”, The Behind-The-Scenes Look At RJ Anderson’s XP1K3 Video!
RJ Anderson is an off-roading badass. We saw him romp at Red Bull Frozen Rush in a full-size truck, but his specialty is making Polaris RZRs do things that the company never, ever saw...
Craigslist Find: The Official Vehicle Of Operation “Screw This, I’m Going Camping” – This 1989 M925A2 Rules!
Getting away from it all just sounds so nice sometimes, doesn’t it? Driving around, seeing everything there is to see in this great big world while staying away from most humans…yes,...
This Gorgeous 1961 Chevrolet Impala Four Door Has Just Enough New Touches To Be Daily-Driveable Without Taking Away The Character Of The Car!
If there is one downside to the Pro Touring movement, it’s that a lot of the builds we see tend to lose the character of the car for the sake of performance. Sure, you are still looking at a...
Rough Start: This 1974 Chevrolet Chevelle Is A Coat Of Paint Away From Respectability!
Five thousand doesn’t go as far for 1970s metal anymore, and that’s a shame…that used to be the way to get into a semi-decent car that still had muscle car roots. Sure, you had to...
Watch as Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud Try Out Their New Ford Focus RS RX Race Cars
There is nothing like the first time behind the wheel of a new car, and for Hoonigan Racing Division’s Ken Block and Andreas Bakkerud, it had to be extra special, because it represented the...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Buy A Vauxhall, Buy A Lincoln, And Please Keep Buying Mustangs!
What a week it’s been here at BangShift! Between tons of live-feed, racing, car shows and more, we almost managed to forget about digging through the growing inbox of news clips and spats that...
This Dodge Challenger Yellow Jacket Looks Sedate, But This OSTDyno-Built 1,000 Horsepower Turbo Monster Can Sting You!
(Additional photos and video courtesy of OSTDyno) How hard is it to make a bright yellow Dodge Challenger SRT Yellow Jacket a sleeper? Difficult isn’t the word. Everybody knows that the...
This Mazda RX-3 Is Angry! This Turbocharged 13B-powered Terror Is Good For 7.61@175 MPH At The Top End!
Until I saw this car, I never thought of a Mazda anything as an angry car. For that matter, what makes a car “angry”? That part is simple: An aggressive look, a pissed-off noisemaker...
