Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Question Of The Day: This Dodge Viper Needs An Engine! What Would You Stuff In Here?
Ever since Dodge showed off the Viper concept car that was completed around 1989, the car has always had this unique air about it. You knew without question that the AC Shelby Cobra and the Cobra...
Wile E. Coyote Has Quit Screwing Around: The ACME Twin-Turbo Camaro From Australia, Good For 7-sec Quarters!
Poor Wile E. He fought tooth, nail and every scrap of fur he ever had trying to catch that damned Road Runner. He ran miles, just barely out of reach of the bird’s tail feathers. He landed on...
Pro UTV Racing? Hell Yes! Take A Look At The Action From The West Georgia Mud Park!
The first UTV I ever operated was a Polaris Ranger 6×6 in Iraq. It had been brought over by a unit and when they redeployed home, they decided to leave it behind, so we scooped it up and used it...
The Last Thing You Ever Want To See While Canyon-Carving Someone Else’s 800HP Lamborghini Is A Guy Dragging A Log Just Around The Next Corner!
I’m one of those guys who handles other people’s cars with kid gloves unless I’m specifically directed not to. It has a lot to do with the fact that there is no freaking way in hell...
Land Speed Gallery: Chasing The Horizon At The SCTA El Mirage Meet
(Photos: Zane McNary) Out of all of the land speed racing events and locations available, I’ve only seen two: Wilmington earlier this year, where I ran our project Chrysler 300C, and Bonneville...
Rough Start: TWO Mazda RX-7s To Cover Just About Any Motorsport You Could Want To Try!
If you’re shopping for a car on a budget, you are probably shopping for everything on a budget. Using that logic, if there was a “buy two for the price of one” deal, you’d...
Dyno Video: This AMC Spirit Is Kicking Out 433 Horsepower At The Wheels – Bet It’s A Lot Of Fun On The Street!
When you review the history of American Motors, it becomes apparent that making it to 1987 was actually nothing short of a miracle. After reaching their height about 1971 or so, AMC took a steady...
SCTA El Mirage: More LSR Racing Shots From The End Of The Year Run!
(Photos: Zane McNary) If there is one facet of land speed racing that Brian Lohnes is constantly harping on as a bonus, it is the freedom of the rules…you can do pretty much whatever the hell...
Early Christmas Shopping Ideas: Going For That One Big Gift For The Gearhead? How About A Ready-To-Go 1964 Plymouth Drag Car?
We had to do a double take and make sure that this Plymouth wasn’t already sitting at Jensen Masters’ Short Street Rod Shop, because it would not look out of place. We aren’t going...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: We Look At The Cast-Aside Work Trucks That Rest And Rust In Vermont
As much as we all would hope to find a yard filled with nothing but the desirable parts of automotive history that span between 1930 and the present, the more likely scenario is that between the gems...
Rough Start: This Rough Mustang II is A Perfect Candidate For A Rally Car!
I’ll straight-up admit it: seeing the Maverick playing in the gravel with a bunch of brick-like Volvos and Subarus at the Northwest RallySprint got my gears turning. I cut my teeth on...
This Twin-Turbo, Small Tire Impala SS Is A Beast! 4.81@161 In The Eighth Mile!
Is it weird for me to say that the B-body Impala SS is starting to become the forgotten performance car of the 1990s? I know that 260 horsepower isn’t squat anymore, but in 1994 it was a reason...
Gates Auto Salvage Tour: More Automotive Archeology From The Woods Of Vermont
Seeing the photos that Lohnes and Fitzgerald took at Gates Auto Salvage keeps bringing up the word “haunting” into my head. It’s not hard to see why: in amongst the thin trees, you...
