Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Craigslist find: 1971 Dodge Valiant Duster Super Bee For Sale In Florida
As Chrysler was shifting from being the wild child of the Musclecar era to an era of company-wide confusion as to what to do with itself in the United States, in Mexico the party was still going on,...
Ebay Find: The Henry J’s Corporate Brother, The Allstate, Up For Sale!
Allstates are dolled-up Henry J’s that sold through Sears for a bargain-basement price while packing more standard and optional equipment. Kaiser-Fraiser’s economy car had been a slow...
Holy Flying Lorry…Mike Ryan and Lotus F1 Gain A World Record By Launching A Truck Over Their Expensive Racecar
Vacation is over, and as I type this I’m watching the sun set over the regional jets parked at Washington-Dulles as I endure a six-hour layover. Not exactly my idea of fun, so the first thing I...
The Sad Tale Of DeLorean Motor Company, From Start To Finish: See How The Workers Rode The Stainless-Steel Rollercoaster
The view from the Titanic Museum in Belfast, Northern Ireland as I stood outside the front door was, in a word, miserable: rain poured down by the ton as the clouds all but obscured the view out into...
Top 11: McTaggart’s List Of Euro-Only Rides That Caught His Eye While On Vacation
I’m sitting in a hotel in Dublin, Ireland, wrapping up the few weeks of touring that I’ve done. There will be more to the actual road trip story, fear not, but for now, let’s take a...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Oh, The Weather Outside Is Frightful…
pro·cras·ti·nate: (noun) 1. To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness. 2. To postpone or delay needlessly See also: Winter season vehicle...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 4: Loch Ness, Whisky, And The Dark History Of Edinburgh
After our free day that we used to go to Bute, we started the actual tour of Scotland and Ireland. This necessitated a hotel change, so we called for a taxi and loaded our bags down to the sidewalk...
Rough Start: Since We’re Here In Scotland, Let’s Pick Up Some Wheels On The Cheap!
The last time I tried to find a Rough Start car in Europe I ended up frustrated, sorting through Renaults and Peugeots and deciding that I’d rather hunt for a car in the middle of Nebraska...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 3: Finding Out Where You Came From
We woke up from our deep sleep in the Hotel Grasshoppers to a sunny day. After the wonderful homemade breakfast served by the hotel staff (a far cry from the dinner we had the night prior, which was...
Troubled Caterham F1 Team Turns To Crowdfunding In Order To Save Their Bacon
As we reported almost two weeks ago, Caterham F1’s financial books look like a chapter from a Brothers Grimm book: absolutely frightening…so bad, in fact, that Caterham went into...
Take Count Of How Many Stunts This Polaris RZR Does During This Video (Hint: Two Are World Records)
This modified Polaris RZR UTV was built to rip around a special course set up on Mount Baker in Washington State for R.J. Anderson, who is the driver for the XP1K2 video for UTVUnderground.com. Pro...
A BangShifter Abroad, Part 2: It’s Not The Journey, It’s The Destination
To read The Prelude, Click Here At six in the morning, my wife started shaking me in the usual morning ritual of waking me up, which is normally where she shakes me out of deep sleep, then I lay...
Success Story: Dude Who Spoofed Lincoln Ad To Sell His Car To See Slayer Got Free Tickets. Here’s The Story…
Jake is a Slayer fan to the core. And Jake is like the rest of us, plugging away at a job to pay the bills. When he heard that Slayer was going to play The Forum in Inglewood, California, he reviewed...
