Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Question Of The Day: What Do You Want To See For 2016?
It’s that time again, where we straddle the twilight of one year and the dawn of another. 2015 has been a good year to be a gearhead: Hellcats, GT350s, Z06s, turbocharged Cadillacs, and plenty...
Dyno Time! It’s A Battle Of The Two 383 Cubic Inchers – Stroker Chevy Small Block Versus Big Block Mopar!
In no way is the battle of the 383 cubic inch engines that Engine Masters put together a fair fight, despite what Freiburger keeps claiming. Why? Simple: a small-block Chevy stroker is a rev-happy...
Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T
Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....
Best Of 2015: This C3 Corvette Is Hiding A Secret That Would Send Both Vette And Ford Fans Into Fits – Meet The Cobravette!
“The devil is in the details,” we’ve heard over and over again. The point of that statement is to slow down and fully appreciate what it is that you are looking at instead of taking...
Best Of 2015: Wickedness In Silver – The “Sudden Death” 1975 Ford Mustang II
Everybody knows the feeling of wanting to be on top. Many try, many fail, some succeed. What a lot of people fail to recognize is that failure is part of the program. If you don’t fail, you...
Best Of 2015: Skewering The Sacred Cow – A DZ302-powered 1963 Ferrari 250 GT/E That Has Enzo Rolling In His Grave
The Ferrari 250 series is carried by the the factory Ferrari racing cars and the wildly valuable 250 GTO, but the long wheelbase, four seater GT/E carries two great distinctions: it was...
Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!
We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...
Best Of 2015: It’s A Turbocharged, EcoTech-Powered, Mid-Engined Chevrolet Cavalier Convertible With Right-Hand Drive, And It’s Wicked!
(Photos: BWC Fabrications) (Note: Easily the wildest car I’ve laid eyes on this year, this Cavalier looks like something I would’ve drawn in the middle of math class in junior high....
Best Of 2015: Lance Auto Investments Junkyard Crawl, Sweet Springs, Missouri – A Little Bit Of Everything Hidden In The Grass
Interstate 70 through Missouri is, as far as I’m concerned anyways, just as interesting as Interstate 70 through Kansas: boring. I’ve driven that stretch of road at least eight times in...
In Memoriam: Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, Cornerstone Of The Band Motörhead, Has Passed On
Anyone who knows rock music only needs to hear the name “Lemmy” to know who is being talked about: long black hair, mutton chops, handlebar mustache, a couple of big moles, and a voice...
The “WTF?” Files: Man Tries To Time-Travel With A Dodge Challenger, Takes Out Businesses Instead
(Photos: WEAR-3, Florida) In the Back To The Future franchise, Doc Brown and Marty McFly use a DeLorean DMC-12 on steroids to travel through time. In the movie, it looked awesome and sounded...
Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!
It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...
Best Of 2015: The One Chevy Lumina Z34 That You Do Not Want To Provoke – It’s Really A 4th Gen Trans Am! Meet The Z57 Lumina!
Does anybody really remember the Chevrolet Lumina with positive feelings? Nope, not really. The new-for-1990 Lumina, in coupe form anyways, was the replacement for the G-body Chevrolet Monte Carlo,...
Best Of 2015: Here’s A Proper Barn Find: A Turbonique T-16 Rocket Go Kart Was Found In A Barn In Alberta
Turbonique only existed because the rule book and safety manual were both thrown out of the window when Gene Middlebrooks started screwing around with monopropellant thrust systems. This...