Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Classic YouTube: Behold, The Granborghini! Whipping The Snot Out Of A Nissan Skyline R33 With A Riding Scooter!
A Nissan Skyline R33 can hustle, even if it is the GTS-T and not the GT-R model. Your average riding scooter does not. Not even if a horse jockey who might blow away in a slight breeze is riding on...
Question Of The Day: Can Fans Of A Dead Brand Keep The Memory Of The Company Alive? If So, For How Long?
Out of all of the brands that have fallen by the wayside in recent years, none may be missed more than Pontiac. Mercury, Oldsmobile, Eagle and Plymouth died because their parent brands didn’t...
Petrolicious Catches Up With The Lucky Owner Of Renault’s Little Rally Monster, The R5 Turbo!
Bring up Renault in America, and the imagery is enough to make most gearheads sick: the dysfunctional marriage to American Motors. The Renault Alliance, Fuego, and “Le Car”. Renault had...
This 468-cubic-inch Chevrolet Cavalier Is A High-School Hot Rod Sketch Come To Life!
The moment I laid eyes on this Chevrolet Cavalier, I had a flashback: I was sitting in Ms. Jameson’s math class, first thing in the morning, bored out of my skull. In lieu of revisiting the...
eBay Find: This Starsky And Hutch Gran Torino Is The Real Deal! It Was In Both The TV Show And The Movie, And Is For Sale!
Paul Glaser hated the car from the moment when the production company for “Starsky and Hutch” introduced him to it. The 2B Bright Red Ford Gran Torino, sitting on slot mags, with a...
Wild Ride: Watch As Augusto Scalbi Goes Barrel-Rolling In His TC2000 Renault After Mechanical Failure!
When you see a car that is as torn up as Agusto Scalbi’s Renault Fluence TC2000 race car is in this video, the first question is usually “What the hell did he hit?” The answer:...
Question Of The Day: What Tiny Detail Of Your Ride Must Be Perfect For You?
You see that little plastic box on the table? That is part number E3EB-10B924-AA, a Ford seat belt buzzer from the early 1980s. And brother, I mean “buzzer”…this isn’t the...
Hot-Lapping: This Half-Mile Corvette Catches Fire After A 180+ MPH Run!
Everything about this C6 Corvette Z06 is awesome: the stance, the 1,000 horsepower supercharged mill under the hood, the exhaust note that could wake the dead, the ability to run 181 in the...
This Ford XE Falcon Doesn’t Look Like The 9-second Quarter-Mile Car That It Is!
If it weren’t for the small aftermarket hood scoop on top of this Ford Falcon, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was just a wicked-up street car. It makes a nice, cammed idle and...
eBay Find: This 1982 Dodge Power Ram 350 Wrecker Isn’t Restored, Just Well-Worn!
When did pickup-based tow trucks disappear? As a kid, I remember seeing Fords, Dodges and GM trucks kitted out with wrecker units, massive push bumpers, and custom painted logos all over the place....
Kaboom! This Nissan’s Differential Makes A Grand Exit On The Starting Line At TX2K16!
Test and tune runs aren’t supposed to be brutal on parts unless you just flat-oh didn’t bother to tune up your ride. You line up, make a pass and double-check your setup…not...
We Found A 1984 Ford XE Falcon With A 460 Under The Hood For Sale In Boulder, Colorado…Interested?
Many people are aware that Ford built some awesome cars in Australia that we didn’t get here in the States. While we built Mavericks, Granadas, Fairmonts, and such, Ford Australia stuck with...
Bangshift Project Files: This 1979 Mercury Zephyr Z-7 Is Going To Become A Land Speed Car!
The leading edge of Ford’s Fox platform was the Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr twins. Replacing the Ford Maverick/Mercury Comet, they first appeared in two door sedan, four-door sedan and station...
Money No Object: This 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 Has Us Drooling…572ci Hemi Goodness!
Finding the words for this 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 that are printable is an honest exercise in restraint. From the supercharged 572 cubic inch Hemi under the hood to the 20×15″ wheels...