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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Ride Along In A Literal Crapbox As Matt Farah Tests Out A Beater-riffic Nissan Crossover From The 1990s You’ve Forgotten

Do you remember the Adam Sandler spoof song “Ode To My Car”? The story of the pinnacle of beaters (the unloved type) just resonates with the latest vehicle that Matt Farah decided to slip...

That’s What It Is All About: Gearheads Cruise Past The Home Of A Dying Car Fan After He Couldn’t Attend A Car Show

If you knew that your time alive on Earth was winding down to days and hours, what would your last request be? For sixty year old Dennis Hake of Niles, Ohio, the answer was simple: he wanted to...

For Sale In Sweden: The Most Customized 1972 Ford Ranchero We’ve Ever Laid Eyes On

There are some things that you do not do to someone who is just waking up. You do not douse them in cold water and start screaming. You do not lob a twenty-pound cat onto their stomach and hope for...

Edelbrock’s “Top It Off” Promotion Announced: Buy Top End Kit, Get Free Carb

Edelbrock is announcing the “Top It Off” promotion! If you purchase an Edelbrock Power Package between October 1 and December 31 you’ll get a free Performer or Thunder Series AVS...

Rough Start: The Classic Wood-Paneled Station Wagon In The Form Of A Big-Blocked Ford LTD!

Growing up a car freak invites you to other people’s opinions, whether you wanted them or not. As a kid, we had a 1969 Chevrolet Kingswood Estate station wagon wind up in our yard. Nothing...

An American In Japan: A 1970 Plymouth Barracuda That Is An Exercise In “Less Is More”

One of the more interesting auto web sites out there is Speedhunters. They have insight to many different facets of the automotive world, but their specialty is Australasian car culture, with visits...

Rumor Mill: The Dodge Viper Will Be No More After Model-Year 2017

About this time last year, we wondered just how much longer the Dodge Viper would last. Arguably, the Viper has lasted a lot longer than anyone on the hybrid AMC/Chrysler Corporation team in the late...

Just Making Some Clouds: A Burnout Compilation From Performance Car Mania 2015

Of all of the motorsports bucket list items we need to check off before we check out, the Australian burnout contest has to be one of the top three. (Hey, that’s a hard list to agree on!) The...

How Does A Plane-Jane, Rental Spec 2001 Taurus Catch Our Eye? V8 Swap, Of Course!

If it weren’t for the aftermarket wheels and tires, this refrigerator white 2001 Ford Taurus would simply be another former Enterprise Rent-A-Car escapee. There was nothing of interest about...

Ebay Find: A 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2 That Looks Rough, But Has That One Major Fault Corrected

We’ve covered before how the 1980s Pontiac 2+2 was a half-hearted attempt by GM’s Excitement Division to hang off of the coattails of the Chevrolet Monte Carlo Aerocoupe. The...

Hot Rod Garage Gets Serious With Their Demon 340’s Build: All-New Bolt In Suspension Parts! (And RIP 340…)

Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340 is a looker, but a runner it is not. Ok, it was for about five minutes after it was roused out of an 18-year slumber, but between then and now, some seriously...

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Hear The New TVR’s Ford Coyote-Based, Cosworth-Tweaked V8 Start And Run A Simulated Lap Of LeMans

Bringing an automotive brand back from the dead doesn’t just take money by the semi-truck load, it takes engineering, testing and a solid plan to make the resurgent car successful after the...

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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, You Can Buy The Old AMC HQ, Check Out A Range Rover Droptop, And Of Course, More Dieselgate!

Congratulations, you have made it another week! In spite of the meetings, the discussions, the commutes, the phone calls, the emails that won’t stop, and everything else that you deal with on a...

Rough Start: This Chevrolet El Camino Would Beat Driving A Cute-Ute Any Day Of The Week

The vehicle of choice for a lot of people lately seems to be crossovers, cute-utilities, whatever you want to call them…basically, they are the modern interpretation of the 1980s Honda Civic...