Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
This 6BT Cummins-powered 1978 Ramcharger Is For Sale-We Want It Badly!
The words “Dodge” and “Cummins” just go together. When the W250 and W350 Rams got the 5.9 six in 1989, it was a direct departure from the indirect-injection V8 diesels that Ford and GM were...
Rough Start: I Lost My Heart In…North Dakota?! 1981 Cordoba For Cheap
For this Rough Start, I searched the whole state of North Dakota. I picked North Dakota because honestly, I had absolutely no idea what I would find. I’ve never been in that region of the United...
Day At The Drags: Somernites Cruise To London Speedway
I spent this Saturday out in Somerset, Kentucky attending the Somernites Cruise weekend. I’m really liking the layout, and that they change up what the Saturday morning event is going to be....
Richard Petty Brings 1967 Plymouth Stock Car To Goodwood To Make Beautiful Noise With
Richard Petty brought out his 1967 Plymouth Belvedere GTX to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend. Out of all of the cars in the Petty Museum to bring to the track, King Richard picked the...
Rough Start: The Two-For-One Australian Special!
So, here’s what happened with today’s Rough Start: I made a crack in the report on the Mad Max vehicles about searching the Aussie Craigslist for a Valiant ute like the one in the picture for the...
Here’s A High-Revving Fairmont Standing On The Bumper For Your Saturday
I’m out in Somerset, Kentucky, preparing to head out to the dragstrip. Actually, I’m not sure if I’ll be heading out to the dragstrip or to a river with a Christmas Tree in the...
Cars, Burnouts And Rock And Roll Because It’s Friday!
Ok, let’s take a tally: Lohnes is currently somewhere tropical, drunk on rum doing his best Lonely Island “I’m On A Boat” impersonation…Chad’s a day away from...
Pikes Peak News: Mike Ryan Crashes Freightliner During Practice
Mike Ryan, the driver of the #777 Freighliner Cascadia racing truck, had a serious incident while practicing for the 2014 Pikes Peak Hill Climb on Thursday. According to witnesses, the Freightliner...
The First Official Pictures of the New Mad Max Cars Unveiled. Semi-truck With A Whole Benz For A Cab? Yes Please!
(Photos courtesy of Entertainment Weekly and giantfreakinrobot.com) Oh, hell effing yes…Max Rockatansky is back. Official photos have surfaced of the vehicles used in Mad Max: Fury Road, and...
National Corvette Museum Decides To Keep ‘Vette-eating Sinkhole As An Attraction
(Photos courtesy CorvetteMuseum.org and Autoweek.com) The board of directors that oversees the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky voted to turn the Skydome sinkhole that consumed...
Video Collection: Odd (Yet Strangely Awesome) Pikes Peak Race Cars
This week is the practice week for the 2014 Race to the Clouds at Pikes Peak, Colorado. I have always been fascinated with the mountain…I grew up in it’s shadow as a kid in the Springs,...
Historical Video: A Look At The Design History of the 1967 Camaro
The design of a car, from the beginning idea to the final mule prototypes before production, interests us. What the purpose of the car will be, the shape of the body, the layout of the interior, the...
Rough Start: This Buick Needs To Be Picked Up Now!
From the insanity of Topeka I moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, mainly in the vain hope that I could find a Dodge truck I used to own to buy back. The second I saw this 1973 Buick Century, however, I forgot...
A Fleet of Military Trucks is Going Up For Auction, And Lohnes Isn’t Around To Drool Over It.
So the boss man is out with the missus on a cruise in the tropics while I sit in my wife’s office, borrowing internet to keep everyone entertained. I sincerely hope those piña coladas...