Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
What Does A Chrysler 360 Need In Order To Rock? Check Out This Bit Of Dyno Work!
The Chrysler 360, the unsung small-block of Ma Mopar’s list. It’s not the screamer 340 that powered Dusters, Demons and the like, and it’s not the anvil 318 that came in just about...
Daddy Long-Legs: The History Of The CH-54 Tarhe Heavy Lift Helicopter
Those with an ear for helicopter engines can pick out certain noises. The wop-wop-wop of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, for example, or the flat roar of an AH-64 Apache. One of the more distinctive noises...
2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Square Bodies In The Sunshine
If there is one vehicle that I believe Brian, Chad and I all agree on 100%, it would be a GM truck. We might not agree on year, engine, setup, model or purpose, but we all can agree that we can find...
FREE LIVE STREAMING Drag Racing: The Xtreme Texas Nationals Featuring The Mid-West Drag Racing Series
Saturday: Racing scheduled for 6 P.M. Central! No, your eyes didn’t deceive you, the name is accurate: the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series, the former Mid-West Pro Mod...
Historical Video: Tazio Nuvolari’s Bombshell Win At The 1935 German Grand Prix
Taizo Nuvolari is one of those drivers whose name has become legendary in certain circles. Ferdinand Porsche considered the best racing driver, period and Enzo Ferrari championed him as the inventor...
Caption This: Risk Assessment? Never Heard Of Him.
DD Form 2977, “Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet”. What is it? In Army lingo, it’s a form that is used to identify, analyze and mitigate risks for everything from something as...
Seasoning The Floor Pan: Preparing The Interior Of The Independence Chevelle
No, it hasn’t just fallen apart and no, he hasn’t stopped working on it. Vice Grip Garage’s 1970 Malibu known as Independence is still coming together from it’s haggard,...
Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept
Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...
Historical Footage: Playing Catch and Release With Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks Aboard USS Akron
Nowadays, we can only imagine what it must have been like to see a gigantic airship like USS Akron or Graf Zepplin flying around in the skies. To put it to scale, the Akron was over three times as...
Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...
Ford Diesel Revival, Round Two: How Do You Start A Truck Hell-Bent On Staying Dead?
Two years ago, I saw one of Kevin’s earliest revival videos, the one that involved him chasing a pissed-off possum from the engine nest it had made on a Fiat 850 Spyder. Back then, not many...
Baby Huey Inbound: The One Time A C-130 Hercules Performed Carrier Operations!
The sheer scope of size that an aircraft carrier brings to the table defies belief. Even if you go back over fifty years ago, the aircraft carriers of the day were something to behold. Holding nearly...
Classic YouTube: Taylor MacKenzie Bails His Burning Kawasaki At Snetterton
Were you a firebug as a kid? I was. I’m amazed that I didn’t burn down the Little League complex that used to be where the Bandix Dog Park now stands. My idiot brother and I would top off...
