Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Rough Start: 1968 Dodge Dart Sedan – The Yellow Brick Road To Fun
In the 1990s, Mopar Action magazine built up a 1969 Plymouth Valiant four-door, dubbed it the “Green Brick” and proceeded to road-race the dog snot out of the car. It competed at many...
Flying Bricks! Enjoy A Half-Hour Of All-Volvo Rally Footage – Good, Bad And Ugly!
Volvos are the cars of safety, and have been for decades. They aren’t performance darlings out of the box, but are instead meant to be stronger and safer than the truck that carried them to the...
Mall Cruiser Or Mud-Bogging LuxuryLiner? Bogging In Trars In The Woods!
I’ve seen HMMWVs sunk up to the top of the windshield frame and LMTVs that couldn’t find any traction whatsoever in the slop. I’ve seen a K5 Blazer on 35-inch tires sunk up the tops...
Old-School Roundy-Round: Picking Up A 1938 Chevy Racer!
Is it difficult for you to picture a pre-war car as a use and abuse kind of ride? Eighty years on, most are gone, the ones that remain are either restored or modified into some kind of hot rod, but...
Rough Start BOGO: 1979 Chevy Monza 2+2 And 1980 Monza Spyder
Finding a Chevy Monza that meets the Rough Start qualifications is a bonus to begin with. H-bodies don’t grow on trees anymore and if you can find one that is still capable of being on the...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Has Been Stolen From You?
Thieves suck. Plain and simple, those who would rather steal from others instead of getting their own share deserve nothing more than scorn, ridicule and punishment. Not sorry in the least. Too many...
Classic YouTube: Chrysler Wasn’t The Only One Messing With Turbines – Check Out This Coal-Powered Oldsmobile!
General Motors walked into the Eighties in a kind of bi-polar state of mind. On the positive side, the downsized B and A/G body cars were a solid strike, the truck line was going well, the Camaro and...
In Memoriam: Maurice Petty, The Chief Of The Petty Dynasty
In the world of stock car racing, it’s pretty much par for the course that the driver is the one that will be remembered. They were the one that was in the car, they are the one seen when they...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What RV Suits You Best?
It’s a subject that just won’t die around BangShift Mid-West right now: the recreational vehicle. Ever since our first tour of Rocky Mountain Race Week (and, honestly, before we said...
Battle Of The Bros: Finnegan And Cleetus Square Off In A Best Of Three Race!
Mike Finnegan and Garrett Mitchell (Cleetus) are two guys who have impressed me since I met them. Finn is always cheerful, always upbeat, always down to talk for a few minutes, and is surprisingly...
Retrowave: 1985 Dodge Daytona Racer…Time To Make This One Howl!
Have you ever seen that meme that ends with, “…because in thirty years, nobody is going to be excited to open up a barn and see a Honda Civic?” or whatever low-end car they can come...
Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile
Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...
Czechmate: Jay Leno Shows Off His 1938 Tatra T87
If you go to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, you will find one of, if not the largest cache of Tatra automobiles in the United States. Name it, they’ve got it: a T-815 rollback truck, a...
