Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
The Unassuming: The Vauxhall Four-Door That Stomped The World In 1990
Until recently, the best assumption that I had about Vauxhall was that it was a combination of Opel and Holden models and that the level of desirability I would have for anything with the griffin on...
The Story Behind Tim Richmond’s NASCAR Pontiac LeMans And How It Was Found And Restored
Tim Richmond isn’t a name that immediately springs to mind when NASCAR is involved, but the story behind him and this NASCAR Pontiac LeMans car is a unique one. Richmond, a playboy and in some...
Wide-Eyed: A Beauty Of A Rambler American Getting Sorted At Route 66
AMC is known for three things throughout it’s relatively short lifespan. One, they were known for some of the more funky designs to come out of an American manufacturer during the 1970s, as...
Meet Colonel Senders: Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s 100 Horsepower Off-Roader Is Done!
The transition from a Power Wheels toy meant for a precocious three-year-old to tool around the front yard in to a beast that requires skill, strength and a completely inactive self-preservation...
Midget Of The Corn: This MG Roadster Revival Is Off To A Flying Nope!
It’s a legitimate fact: the line between somebody’s yard and a field of corn is filled with tall grass and junk. I know…at the far end of BangShift Mid-West is a stand of ragweed...
Take It All Off: Stripping The Patina’d Paint Off Of The Valiant Wagon
Without giving away too many details, it’s become quite clear that at some point in the Rough Start Mustang’s future, that a stripdown and repaint will be in order. Am I looking forward...
Random Car Review: The 1980 Ferrari Pinin, The Four-Door Performance Sedan That Never Had A Prayer
Looking around in today’s market, the two-door car is on the critically endangered list. Four-doors have finally made their way to the mainstream, and fast, potent versions of four-door sedans...
Cruising In The Rain: The Vehicles Of The Chelsea Cruise In The UK
Well, it’s nice to see that some car events aren’t completely binned. Unfortunately, making it to the Chelsea cruise isn’t exactly a thing we can do. Yes, I’ve got a passport...
How Would You Build It: 1989 Shelby Dakota
Seeing Carroll Shelby jump ship from Ford around 1970 was no surprise. The direction that the Shelby Mustang program was headed towards was pissing him off more and more. His GT350 and GT500 were...
Looks Familiar: A Crash Collection That Has Less Problems Than 2020 Has Had!
I hesitate to tempt fate by saying that this year has been one for the books because the only certain thing this year is that any plans that you might have had at the beginning of the year are...
High Roller: The 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé That Ran The Paris-Dakar
What made a desert run to the southern point of the Baja Peninsula work? It wasn’t sponsorships and a ton of advertising dollars, but a desire to push man and machine to the limit on...
Cool Vanilla: 1990 Dodge Ram D150 Muscle Truck, As It Should Have Been
Rewind back to 1990 for a minute. The truck of the moment, as it had been ever since it debuted, is the updated GM C/K pickup truck. Lifted, slammed, name it, GM trucks were killing it. They were the...
When Giraffes Fly: Cleetus Takes The Controls Of A Cessna For The First Time!
When I left the Army in 2010, my plan was concrete: I was going to go to school and I was going to learn to fly. I had managed to push through the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration and the...
4WD To Front Wheel Drive In A Snap: Street Gas 4×4 Trucks At Berryville
Much like a test-and-tune night on No-Prep Thursdays, or a “public welcome” spectator drags event that ends with broken headlights and someone beating the tar out of someone else in the...