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Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart

Aircraft Gallery: Collings Foundation’s Wings Of Freedom Tour Stop in Bowling Green, KY

World War II saw air battles that were absolutely vicious in nature being fought by pilots that were barely out of high school going toe-to-toe with their adversaries. Their aircraft were the only...

Rough Start: Free Is Good…Right? What About A Free Lincoln Limo?

Anytime the words “Burning Man” enter a Craigslist car ad, I have to look. It’s like a train wreck. So when Shannon Sykes sent me the listing for this 1985 Lincoln limo, of course I...

Carnage Footage! Check Out “Redneck Racing”, And Make Sure Your Neck Brace Is Tight And Secure!

Tough Truck competitions are popular side-attractions at arena races and four-wheel events across the country. Basically a run-what-ya-brung event with only certain safety guidelines (and in some...

Question Of The Day: Which Group Of Automotive Enthusiasts Are The Most Unbalanced?

Don’t act like you don’t know exactly what the hell I’m talking about when I say that. The Porsche owners that have all the likeability of an electrical fire. The obnoxious and loud...

Check Out This Hilarious Review Of The 2000 Toyota Corolla-Accurate And Sarcastic, All In One!

The 2000 model year Toyota Corolla is about the most vanilla offering Toyota had in their lineup, which is saying something about the company that spent the 1990s and 2000s re-defining...

Unhinged: A Car I Should Love, But Would Hate To Live With

I spend my days either doing basic and mundane taskings around the house, researching and writing stories to keep the bosses happy, or I’m busy running around the house trying to control two...

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Watch This Remote-Controlled Mercedes-Benz Actros 8×8 Drift Around A Track!

I used to be big into remote-controlled cars. They are fun, can be fast, and are a notorious pain in the backside to control precisely. Then there are guys like the operator of this Actros 8×8...

Hennessey Is Out For Blood: Meet The Veyron-killing F5

The Bugatti Veyron is sitting in the Guinness Book of World Records at 267.8 miles per hour. Apparently that has been stewing in the brains of John Hennessey, especially since a 270.49 mph blast down...

All Signs Point To The Closing Of The GM Oshawa Plant By 2016

The Oshawa car line plant looks doomed again, if the writing on the wall gives any indication. Originally the plant was scheduled to close in 2012, then again this year, but increased sales of...

Ebay Find: A Turbine-Powered T-Bucket-Insanity Taken To A New Level, And Yes, It’s For Sale!

It takes quite a bit for us to stop what we’re doing and just stare at a picture of a car, more so when the car is a Ford T-bucket. This one did it. A Ford T-bucket powered by a Boeing 502...

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Cars And Coffee In Bowling Green Kentucky: Yawn, Stretch, And Wake The Neighbors As You Go To Breakfast And A Car Show

I love the premise behind a Cars and Coffee get together: Wake up, drive your hot ride to a parking lot adjacent to a great breakfast location and spend the morning hanging out with a variety of gear...

Rough Start: Heading To Guam, Sailor? I’ve Got Just The Car For You

Picking this Rough Start’s location was literally throwing a dart at the map. Guam is an island in Micronesia and has a sizable contingency of U.S. military personnel stationed there at any...

This Rabid FWD V8-powered Ford Festiva Is Severely Violent And Totally BangShift Approved!

How much head scratching did you do when you read that headline? We did plenty ourselves. When we searched “World’s Fastest Festiva” we expected to get a Shogun, the Festiva with a...

Question Of The Day: Which One Of These Dare-To-Be-Different Limos Works And Which One Will Kill Your Chances At Prom?

Limousines. Purpose-built stretched cars that are meant to ferry people around in comfort and exuberant style. In some regards, they’re cool, and in others, they make no sense at all. There are...