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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!

Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...

Best Of 2015: Plowing Snow Like A Boss Using An Old Honda Three-Wheeler!

A fairly hidden fact is that before I got deep into cars I was deeper into bikes and trikes. I loved my dirt bikes, but without question the one ride that I adored above all others were early 1980s...

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Best of 2015: Man Had Thunderbird’s Turn Signal Stalk Surgically Removed 51 Years After The Wreck That Lodged It Into His Arm

Arthur Lampett’s 1963 Thunderbird suffered a catastrophic collision with a truck fifty-one years ago. Lampett survived the collision, the Ford did not. While his broken hip was the main focus...

Best of 2015: XJ Cherokee Versus A Swimming Pool: Which One Will Win?

Okay…we have a homemade ramp made mostly of old pallets. We have one well-used and abused Jeep Cherokee, and we have a backyard swimming pool. We also have a bunch of Canadians who are looking...

Best Of BS: Footage From The 2012 Pig N Ford Races In Tillamook, Oregon

I’ve seen rally cars take flight like a stone from a sling. I’ve seen drag cars go barrel-rolling down the strip after attempting to put the nose of the car into orbit. I’ve seen a...

Best Of 2015: This “1969 Charger” Can Easily Become Yours, If You Have A Howitzer To Trade

First things first…I hate to be the one to correct the owner of this Mopar, but you aren’t looking at a Dodge Charger of any vintage. Though, with that being said, it really doesn’t...

Best of 2015: Meet The Chrysler CL Ute With The Idle From Heaven – Blows The Tires Off Each Time Blower Surge Hits!

Used to be, if you had big tires out back, a blower sticking through the hood and were tooling around at idle that you would be nothing more than a show car, cannon fodder for every trailer queen...

Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North

What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...

Best Of 2015: This 829WHP Dodge Colt Will Embarrass You If You Test It Out

By 1989 the Dodge Colt had pretty much dropped any aspirations of being a sporty subcompact and had instead shifted to a front-wheel-drive econobox platform. Shame, really, because some of the...

Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?

You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...

Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?

“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has...

Best Of 2015: This 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Looks Innocent Enough, Doesn’t It? Don’t Trust The Quiet One…

(Editor’s Note: This 1980 Chevrolet has to be the best Craigslist find we saw this year…mostly for the Farmer John looks coupled with a sledgehammer under the hood, but because a reader...

Caption This: Somehow, Some Way, This Has To Be Rebeldryver’s Fault.

Would you want to be a stretch limo driver? I would only do the job if it involved a route that went between Topeka, Kansas and Denver, because the only place that operating a real stretch limo...

It’s Nothing But A Good Old-Fashioned Burnout Contest That Has Cars, Trucks, And Even The Jimmy John’s Driver Laying Rubber!

Sometimes, you just have to cut loose and have some fun. We all have done it in some shape or form, and if you can think of a better way to get your kicks than a burnout contest, then go for it. We...