Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Keyless Volvos, GM Vs. Tesla, And More!
Is it racing season yet? No? How about now? It’s not that we’re getting cabin fever while waiting for Spring to get it’s act together but…ok, yeah, we are certainly getting...
Check This Out: A 1,300 Horsepower Twin-Turbo Restomod 1974 Road Runner
There are only so many cars out there, folks. Sooner or later, desirable cars will all be spoken for and then what? I’ve been railing on for years about the smog-era cars, the Malaise-era...
Unhinged: Meet The Fiat 500L Tiberio Taxi…It’s A Tropical Taxi For Blind Tourists, We Think.
There is nothing wrong with saying that I’m not a fan of pretty much anything Fiat. I don’t like the 124 Spyder. I don’t like the 500, new or old. And I’m very hard-pressed to...
If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!
It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...
BangShift Project Files: A Root Beer Brown 1972 Buick Skylark Droptop That Is Getting Some Love
You really can’t go wrong with any of the GM A-bodies made between 1968-1972. They are popular, have an amazing aftermarket, look solid no matter how you build them, and are one of the few...
eBay Find: The One-Year-Only 1975 Plymouth Road Runner – Cop Car Durability And Rarity That Makes Mopar Freaks Weak
Let’s get the complaints out of the way now: Yes, what you are looking at is the 1975-only Plymouth Road Runner. Yes, it is still a B-body, with the underpinnings that debuted in 1971 and the...
This 1960 Plymouth Fury Is Only A Replica Of Richard Petty’s Racer, But Do You Really Care?
That color blue is synonymous with NASCAR royalty. “Petty Blue”, a hurried combination of blue and white that was mixed up by Richard Petty and his brother Maurice to paint a 1959...
Down Under Mopar Muscle: A 9-Second Valiant VG Making Runs At Sydney Dragway!
If you look at the car and see mostly 1968 Dodge Dart, you’re just about right…the Valiant VG was the last U.S. designed Valiant to appear in Australia, and was replaced with the 1971...
Regular Car Reviews Checks Out A 1976 Chevrolet Chevette To See If There Was Any Redeeming Quality For The Lowly Little Hatchback
“Well, it certainly beats walking.” You know that statement. You might have been told that line when you looked at your parents’ idea of a good first car…a Nissan Stanza in a...
Jay Leno Meets One Of The Biggest Stars From The 2015 SEMA Show, SpeedKore Performance’s “Tantrum” 1970 Dodge Charger!
In an event like the SEMA show, there are cars that grab your attention and do not let go, regardless of what you see. This year’s event left me with a short list of cars that were highlights,...
When Snow Falls On A Racetrack, The Answer Is A Nissan GT-R And A Fearless Snowboarder!
So the weather outside is hateful, dumping snow deep enough to cause the meteorologists to issue warnings and the weather reporters to start naming the storm that is rolling through while playing up...
NASCAR Unveils New Behavioral Rules For All Series – Clearer Definitions For Fights, Intentional Crashes, And More!
(Images: NASCAR.com) NASCAR can claim that the rules recently revealed aren’t a reaction to the November 2015 incident between Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway all they...
An Aussie Burnout For For The Underdog Crowd, Complete With A Blower Off To One Side! This Screaming Six-Cylinder Holden Ute Rules!
There is something so sweet about Ben Falk’s Holden HG ute killing it on the skidpad. Is it the burnout itself…no, that seems to be a skill every Aussie gearhead learns as they grow up....
Unhinged: The Radio Flyer Tesla Model S, And My Immediate, Irrational Hatred Of It
Before I begin, I should probably make the following admission: I know that I’m diving off of the deep end here. I’m losing my head over a kid’s toy, one that might actually sway...