Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
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...
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...
Unhinged: McTaggart Decides To Investigate Lawn Mower Demolition Derby
I’m sitting at the computer, near midnight, digesting fair food (read: funnel cake, overly sweet tea and deep-fried Snickers…don’t you judge me!) and I’m trying to make sense...
This Dart (Yes, Dart) Can Be Yours For About Seven Grand. How Weird Do You Wanna Be?
I need warning before looking at something like this. I was tipped off to an ad for a 1965 Dodge Dart…not my favorite, but hey, not bad either. Then the pictures loaded up and I yelped out...
Craigslist Find: Unrestored, Highly Documented And Low Mileage 1964 Pontiac Catalina, With Dealer-Installed Tri-Power
“It’s only original once”, the survivor guys like to say, and it’s true. While restored cars are pretty to look at, they had to have work done to bring them back from years of...
PETA Worker Has License Plate Denied. Guess Everyone Won’t Know Her Love Of Tofu…
Poor Whitney Calk. Ms. Calk works for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the group known for promoting a vegan lifestyle by having Pamela Anderson cover her kinky bits with lettuce...
Unhinged: 50 Shades Of Gray
The color of a car can mean everything or nothing all at once. A red car might mean fun, performance or a reason for the local constable to pull you over. A black car might look luxurious or...
Ford And Ram In War Of Words Over Towing Rating Of Their Heavy Duty Trucks: This One’s Gonna Get Ugly, Folks
Ford, GM and Ram all want you to believe that their heavy-duty model truck is the baddest mother on the planet. It can go anywhere, do anything, has enough power and structure to tow Rosie...
BangShift Blog Battle: Lohnes’ Sauce Is Weak-Here Is McTaggart’s Response
Leave it to Lohnes to pick a well-known low shot like the Oldsmobile Delta 88 diesel for this battle. Look, the engine is far from a peach, we all know, and yeah, the Delta 88 is a very overrated...
Talk About Bad Luck: Man Crashes Into House Filled With Bees
St. Charles, Michigan residents were surprised to hear a crashing noise that came from an abandoned house in the neighborhood. As they ran over to investigate what had happened, they found bees by...