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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Columbine II, The Former Presidential Lockheed VC-121A-LO, Has Taken To The Skies Once Again!

One of the few remaining Lockheed Constellations left in the world is a lot more than it initially appears. Serial Number 48-0610 isn’t a Constellation, but a VC-121A-LO, a special VIP layout...

The Owner Of This Pontiac Trans Am Grew Up With Bathurst, Has A Rally Car Background, And Works For Ken Block – Petrolicious Tells The Story!

It’s difficult to find anyone who watched Smokey and the Bandit who didn’t walk away afterwards wanting a black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am. The film company may have beaten the Pontiacs...

Which Is Better, Dual Quads Or Three Two Barrels? Engine Masters Slaps Both On A 383 Stroker To Find Out!

There is just something sinister about knowing that the monster under your hood is packing more than one carburetor. The terms are now legendary: Dual quads. Tri-Power. Six Pack. Say those phrases,...

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Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Five-Point Plan To Happiness, Courtesy Of One Of The Angriest Guys Behind The Counter!

I am only just one person, one of millions who have manned the counters, the phones, the lifts, and spend every working hour interacting with both the public and the machines that the public relies...

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Looks Perfectly Safe To Us: Check Out This Jet-Powered Smart Car!

You know what kind of engine would wake up a Smart car? ANY engine swap. The original inline-3 has just enough power that you won’t get run over in most city driving, the CVT transmission...

Rough Start: Capitalizing On Someone Else’s Bad Day – What Would You Do With A $1,000 Fox Body Mustang?

Fox-body Mustangs are at an interesting point right now: they are certainly classics, excellent hot-rod fodder, and are finally starting to surge up in value, yet are still very approachable in...

Morning Symphony: This Compilation Of The Best Exhaust Notes Ever Should Be Your New Alarm Clock!

What moves you in the morning? The sounds of your kids running around the house and the urgent need to make sure that calamity is restored? The sound of a cat meowing into your left eardrum because...

Reach For The Sky! This Mazda RX-3 Goes Mostly Straight Up At The Sydney Jamboree!

When you hear the words “three wheel motion”, it should make you think of a classic lowrider…Dayton 100-spokes, beautiful paint, driving with a wheel in the air. We’re pretty...

Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio

For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...

Would You Rather, The Not-Quite-A-Musclecar Edition: Clean LeMans Or California-Find Dodge Coronet?

Not every Pontiac was a GTO Judge. Not every Mopar was a Hemi, or a 440 Six Pack. Not every Mustang had a Boss or a Cobra Jet under the hood. For decades, the 1964-1974 Musclecar Era has been solidly...

Bench Racing: How Would You Prepare This 5-speed 1987 Mercury Cougar?

If there is one thing I know that BangShifters are good for, it’s spending other people’s money when it comes to a project car build. And I’m amazed that we don’t exploit that...

Corvette And Porsche Meet The Wall After Meeting Each Other At The 12 Hours Of Sebring!

A wet racetrack and a ton of IMSA sports cars make for wild racing, and the 12 Hours of Sebring provided plenty of wild racing scenes, but not many were wilder than the tangle-up between Porsche...

World Record Holding Subaru! 7.29@200 MPH, With Subaru Power Installed!

We know that Subarus can be fast, but we’re used to the later-model STIs that came to our shores late. In Australia, they got the hot WRX models straight from Japan in the 1990s, and while they...

It Came From Craigslist: The Ford Ute We Needed, Not The One We Deserve!

The basic plan for the two major American ute designs was to take the station wagon body, give it the coupe doors and turn the rest of the area into a bed. It’s a solid plan, it’s a cheap...