Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
BangShift Question Of The Day: Is It Time For Coachbuilding To Make A Comeback?
If you dive back into the early days of the automobile, it was common to purchase a running chassis from one make and send it to a body manufacturer for the actual shape of the car. Names that you...
The Maniac’s Truck: Go In-Depth Into Colin Furze’s 1988 Toyota!
The Toyota Hilux is indestructible. TopGear proved it by trying like hell to kill one and they failed. And they tried, indeed: among other, much more minor abuses, the Toyota was drowned in the...
Morning Symphony: Arias Hemi V6 – An Absolutely Rare Gem
The three parts of the description of the engine you are about to hear individually have merit. Hemi, by itself, needs no introduction. While primarily thought of as a Chrysler mill that has been...
Home-Grown Paint Job? Yeah…Uncle Tony Has A Thing Or Two To Say About That
One of the things that I’m flipping a coin on is whether I’m going to paint the Rough Start Fox or not. Our 1989 Mustang is two different shades of red (mostly Cabernet Red, some Bright...
Rough Start: 1971 Ford Maverick Sans Engine
The Ford Mustang is the car that America loves…except those made between 1971 and 1978, it seems. The final form of the first generation Mustang got big to accept big engines at precisely the...
The Challenger Revival, Part 20: Engine And Transmission Work, Finally!
It’s about time. After watching Dylan McCool go through every last part of his 1973 Dodge Challenger revival project, we are finally to the meat and potatoes of what this car needs to...
Money No Object: 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood – Fat Tire Family Ride!
The heyday of the station wagon has been gone for over 40 years now. Long four-door wagons, some with wood paneling, some with excess of chrome, most simply basic transportation for the family, some...
BangShift Question Of The Day: When Did You Buy A Lot Of Junk You Didn’t Need?
Justin from Fuel Injection Sucks might be the only person in the world I know who is excited about scoring a $600-ish Ford Festiva. The one, the only. This is a car that was manufactured between 1986...
Off-Side: Passenger-Side Offset Crash Tests For New Pickup Trucks
Pickup trucks composed 69% of the U.S. new vehicle sales at the beginning of 2019. Sixty-nine percent. They’ve replaced the SUV, the minivan, the station wagon and even the midsize sedan as the...
Good Luck, Suckers! The Remaining 2020 NASCAR Races Will Have No Practice, No Qualifying!
Before you jump to conclusions, you have to understand the reason behind this move: removing practice time and qualifying from the remainder of the races still scheduled for NASCAR’s 2020...
“You might want to get back in it!”: Check Out The Story Of The F-106 Delta Dart “Cornfield Bomber”!
The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was a hot rod of the highest order when it came to interceptor aircraft. Mach 2.0 was just starting to reach the upper limits of the airspeed indicator (Mach 2.3 was...
Money No Object: 2001 Cadillac Catera With An LS7 And A Six-Speed
“The Caddy That Zigs!” Ugh, what a loathsome advertising campaign. When the Catera hit the scene in 1997, Cadillac was known for three things: big, blocky boats that they had been making...
Another One Gone: The 2020 Holley National Hot Rod Reunion Has Been Cancelled
When December 31st rolls around, and we’re getting past the Holiday Hangover and moving on to a proper hangover, may the final toast before the ball drops include words that basically come out...
