Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Independence Chevelle: Getting The Front Clip Back Into Useable Shape
When Derek drove this 1970 Chevelle from Indiana home, he had a solid complaint the whole time: the front end didn’t care anything about what he was asking it to do. Now, it’s not...
The Mud Pit From Hell – Try As They Might, They All Sink To The Bottom!
Do you remember the kite-eating tree in the Peanuts comic strip? No matter what Charlie Brown did to avoid fate, his kite wound up getting taken out by the one single, solitary tree that just had it...
Let The Beauty Shine Through: Scrubbing The Ugly Off Of A Muralized Dodge Ramcharger
One thing that I always wondered when I was a kid, reading Sport Truck and other magazines in the 1990s, was how all of these vehicles that had gotten these radical, super-detailed paint jobs were...
Diesel Revival 3: When In Doubt, Call In An Expert Before You Nuke The Engine
“Try, try and try again” is commendable in theory. In practice, there’s a point where you have to understand that you are doing something wrong and that if you keep up with your...
MFP LSR: Charlie Richardson’s 1974 Ford Maverick Street Stock Racer
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I pulled into Blytheville. I wasn’t expecting to find the remains of an Air Force base that had been decommissioned in 1992. I wasn’t expecting to...
So Wrong It’s Right: 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7 In Period-Correct Attire
Lying somewhere between root beer brown and a dark wine red color lies this 1979 Mercury Cougar XR-7. Don’t get excited, we know, we know…it’s a Ford lead sled from the bad old days...
Morning Symphony: Street Cars On The Track Again At Santa Pod
My current favorite meme is a simple black background, white letter picture: “i need to get out this damn house”. Being fair, I have been out of the house. Very out of the house. But with...
BangShift Question Of The Day: V8 Jeep? V8 Bronco? Can You Justify The V8 Anymore?
Hours before the Ford Bronco family was announced the other day, Jeep slipped a quiet little “I’m not ignoring you” bit out into the open: the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 concept....
Driving Past Amber Waves Of Grain: An Overview Of Cleetus’s RMRW 2020 By Project Priime
Rocky Mountain Race Week is still echoing in the back of our minds. With the news yesterday that Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week is canned until next year, there’s many who are looking at...
In Memoriam: Grant Imahara
Whenever I sit down to write a memorial piece, I have to figure out why that’s happening in the first place. People die all the time. Their loved ones will remember the family memories, the...
Copart Cadaver: This 1968 Dodge Charger Took It In The Rear Badly
1968-1970 Dodge Chargers are desirable in a way that few other cars have managed to become. They are brutally handsome, they came from the factory in trims ranging from the rare fuel sipper to...
Rough Start: A Pontiac Grand Am That’s Begging For A New Beginning
Between the Pontiac Grand Am CA and the Chevrolet Malibu Black Sterling that I recently found, I’ve been foaming at the mouth of a 1978-82 GM A-body build. Look, I like the G-body cars....
Why Was There No 1983 Corvette? A Regular Car Review Story On The C4 Corvette In Detail
To be fair, there may not have been a true production run, but there was a run of 1983 Corvette pilots, pre-productions, whatever you want to call it. Out of the 43 cars that were built, only one,...
