Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
This 1955 Studebaker Champion Deluxe Is A Beautiful Driver That Is Surprisingly Attainable!
It’s amazing to think that the new-for-1953 Studebaker coupes were a failure. Once the company got their act together after a horrendous start that involved bad tooling and production delays,...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, The Guy Who Punked VW, Ferrari SUVs, And More!
The Geneva Motor Show has been the focus of the week, where a stomper of a Corvette and Bugatti’s latest warp-speed missile have been unveiled. After that, it’s a ton of super cars that...
Check Out This Brutal Tug-Of-War Footage! Sometimes Full Power Isn’t Your Friend!
By all respects, if you have several hundred horsepower on tap, enough rubber to afford traction and enough weight to keep those tires planted, then dragging another vehicle around shouldn’t be...
The Most Insane Thing At The Geneva Motor Show: The Lazareth LM847, a Maserati V8-powered Quadbike
(Photos: Drew Philips/Autoblog) In 2003, Dodge unveiled the Tomahawk: a four-wheeled, Viper powered motorcycle that looked like the light cycle from the movie “Tron”. It was the pinnacle...
Unveiled: The Abarth 124 Spider Rally – Finally, A Fiat That Is Worth Looking At!
In case you are a little confused as to what you’re looking at, let’s start from the top: It’s a Mazda Miata at it’s core, that Fiat trims out with some body differences and...
eBay Find: Boss Hogg’s Answer To The Duke Boys Once And For All – A 1971 Cadillac Eldorado Trar!
After three years, a car I remember seeing on Craigslist in Arizona is back on eBay! This 1971 Cadillac Eldorado trar looks like the kind of car that you would have expected to see as a result of one...
Unhinged: Taking A Look Back At Some 1970s Print Ads, From Sad To…Wow…
The horsepower war is winding down, the broughams are preparing to strike with opera windows, super-fluffy seats and padded roofs, and gas mileage is officially becomes a factor when purchasing a...
Unveiled: The New 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport: Stingray Power, Z06 Handling
It seems that nowadays the focus is on the horsepower number. Yeah, they’re getting bigger and bigger, but the downside to that, as many detractors will point out, is that properly unloading...
Take A Look Behind The Scenes Of Gymkhana Eight Through The Lens Of Larry Chen!
It is one thing to have a GoPro or a movie-quality camera focusing on the driving antics of Ken Block…it’s hard to miss the action when it’s being recorded. But taking still shots...
Ken Block’s Gymkhana Eight: A Rally Fiesta In The Middle East
For the eighth Gymkhana film, Ken Block had to do something dramatically different. We’ve seen his repertoire of stunts, we have seen him in Subarus and Fords, and we are all very well versed...
Question Of The Day: Do You Have Any Strange Stories Involving Random People Coming Up To Your Car?
Today I was treated to a phenomenon I haven’t experienced in a couple of years: as I was shooting pictures of the Camaro that I test drove, I had people walking up and checking out the car. If...
This 1966 Studebaker Commander Is One Nasty Little Beast! Blown 383 Chevy And A Five-Speed!
The jig was up for Studebaker in 1966. Production at the South Bend, Indiana plant had been shuttered for two years and the company exited the auto manufacturing business altogether on March 16,...
The Registration Plate On This V8, RWD Hyundai Excel Says It All: “WHY NOT”
I don’t want to hear one word about this Hyundai Excel being LS-swapped. Not even from the LS hate crowd. Using the logic that it’s wrong to LS-swap a car that didn’t originally...
