Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile Gallery: The Opening Roar At Arkansas
As I made the left turn off of Arkansas 181 and onto Memorial Drive, I immediately had a strange sense of familiarity that took me a minute to figure out. The building designs were very familiar. The...
Mopar In A Suit: 1970 Monteverdi High Speed 375S – Worldly Gran Tourer!
While out on a lunch at Conway’s Red Top with my grandfather one Sunday afternoon, the subject of cars came up. I was hunting for what was going to be my first licensed, street legal vehicle...
Classic YouTube: Selling Mopar’s Pocket Rocket With The Help Of Junior – The 1984 Dodge Omni GLH
“Dodge Omni has always been a good old buddy…a nice little guy.” Yeah, sure, believe what you will. Dodge’s Omni had a few things going for it…small, front-wheel-drive,...
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Watch As A V8 Ute Racer Performs The Mother Of All Jump-Starts!
The final few seconds before the start of a race has to be intense for a professional racer, don’t you think? The start is crucial for racers, no matter where they qualified: if you’re in...
Caption This: Failure To Properly Secure Load, Driving With Head Up Rectum…
Truckers and railroad workers, tow truck operators and the like will tell you like I will tell you: there is a right way and a wrong way to secure your load. Cross-strapping, anchored down and away...
It’s Dyno Time For The Skid Factory’s MR2! How Does The Fresh Four-Banger Do On The Hub Dyno?
It’s not the most powerful, or the fastest, or even the most comfortable Toyota ever produced. But the first-gen MR2 was a neat little pocket-rocket that has a cult following. I remember the...
The Garage Find Dream: Dusting Off A 1969 Chevelle That’s Been Squirreled Away
We had one as a family car. We traded a 1950 Chevy truck that had been hot-rodded up for it. The truck was a ripper, a four-speed screamer, but it had issues…the least of which were the plywood...
When Base Means Brilliant: 1969 Oldsmobile F85 W31, In Chevrolet Rally Green!
Welcome to the land of Hindsight. It’s March, 1969. You’ve just graduated high school, have a track into school, and in a surprise you never saw coming, your old man has agreed that since...
Unveiled: 2021 Dodge SRT Durango Hellcat, Charger Redeye, and Challenger Super Stock
First, we got the Hellcat twins. 707 horsepower in 2015 was a bomb blast to the automotive world. Prior to that, Ford had blessed the Shelby GT500 with 662 horsepower and FCA looked to be circling...
What Depreciation? This BMW 6-Series Is One Evil-Sounding Rally Monster!
I actually had to go research when the “new” BMW 6-series coupes were first produced: 2004. That means that at the oldest, this particular mud-flinging example is sixteen years old. Which...
Classic YouTube: Cannonballs Off A Sunken Dodge, A Freightliner, And A Severely Abused Crown Vic!
My brain is still trying to process what, exactly, was going on in Moncton, New Brunswick last year. Was there something in the water? No, not the pond…that’s where the red, white and...
Watching This Dodge Dakota R/T Drifting Around Rockford Speedway Is Having An Absolute Blast
The 1998-2003 Dodge Dakota R/T is a riot in disguise. Shoving the 250hp/345tq 360 into the Dakota and backing up the powertrain with a 9.25″ rear packing 3.92 gears, the Dakota surprised those...
Historic Footage: Honda’s Commercial For The 1981 ATC 250R Three Wheeler
Three wheelers are some of the biggest fun you can have when it comes to all-terrain vehicles, and of all of the ones sold, Honda’s ATC 250R was the one to have. Not knocking the Big Red or the...
Knife Edge: Watch Trials Rider Toni Bou Make An Absolute Mockery Of Physics
Trials riders are insane, pure and simple. It’s a bit odd to compare them to any other motorcycle discipline, because unlike motocross, GP, Dakar or even sidecar motocross, trial riders...