Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Wheelstands Aplenty: Round One Of The Australian Pro Street Association’s Championship at Calder Park!
You want to know where the thunder truly is Down Under? Visit any of the local tracks, you’ll find plenty of it, especially now that the Australian Pro Street Association’s 2016...
Rough Start: Be The Hero The City Needs With This Homebuilt Tumbler!
With a budget of $5,000 and a goal of a running and driving vehicle that doesn’t suck, finding a vehicle like this…thing should naturally mean that you back click and try again. But since...
Chevrolet Camaro Versus BMW M4? Can Chevrolet’s Legend Compete With The Bavarian Legend?
Camaro versus Mustang. Ever since the fall of 1966, the Chevrolet Camaro’s main nemesis has been Ford’s pony car, and that’s pretty much because the Camaro was GM’s knee-jerk...
Viper ACR Versus A Hellcat Challenger With Bolt-Ons In The Half-Mile…Place Your Bets!
From the second that the Hellcats were unveiled, Dodge was rather quick to remind us that they play in a different arena than the Viper did. And, naturally, most people don’t bother with that...
Cleared For Takeoff: Watch These Two Mega Trucks Jump Into The Water At The Louisana Mudfest!
You can call it juvenile. You can say that it’s a waste of time and good parts. You can be all about the risk involved, how you don’t want to hydrolock the engine, how cleaning up...
Big And Beautiful: This Tubbed 1968 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible Is Just Excellent!
With Spring’s warmer weather, the thought of a convertible crosses one’s mind when they don’t own one. Sure, you could rent a droptop Mustang from Hertz, enjoy your time with the...
Caption This: Oil Change, Rotate and Balance, And Complimentary Car Wash
Seeing this Porsche 911 GT3 RS with it’s face in the water of the Oostwetering canal like a duck feeding outside Porsche of Amsterdam is almost meme-worthy as it is: “It was at this...
CarThrottle Sends In The Drift Van To Prank Chris Forsberg For April Fools’ Day!
Yeah, we know that April Fools’ Day was yesterday…we saw all of the posts, from Chad’s beard packing up, giving us the finger and bailing out on it’s own in the movie biz...
Is This Supercharged 1979 Mercury Zephyr A Score, Or Too Good To Be True? You Make The Call!
The downside of Craigslist is that you don’t get up close and personal with the vehicle that you are possibly laying good money down on. You have to trust a few photos and whatever the seller...
Caption This: “The Pontiac Thunderchicken…Now With 110% More Thunder!”
(Photo: Robert Beam via WBKO) On Thursday, one hell of a storm blew through the Western Kentucky area. While BangShift Mid-West HQ was getting hit with winds heavy enough to uproot plants...
The Smoking Tire Checks Out A 575 Horsepower, Built To The Nines Jaguar XJ8L!
I don’t care what Karl, the owner of this Ipanema Brown Jaguar XJ8L says, thirty-five grand is not a budget build. If it is to him, so be it. But that is the only thing that I can nitpick about...
Check Out Our First Gallery From The Bilsport Elmia Custom Motor Show In Sweden!
We have to thank long-time BangShifter Arlid Guldbrandsen for tipping us off to Mårten Carlsson’s photos of the 2016 Bilsport Elmia Custom Motor Show. We have known for years that there is a...
Formula One Might Dump The Italian Grand Prix At Monza For…Las Vegas?!
First held in 1921, held in succession since 1950, and only moved once (to Imola, in 1980), the Italian Grand Prix at Monza is an institution to itself, a center of pride for Italian motorsports, an...
