Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1984 Chrysler Laser
We’re on the final leg of the adventure that has encompassed the 2020 Rocky Mountain Race Week. Haley and I have had a blast out on the road together and once the sun rises in the morning,...
Rocky Mountain Race Week 2020, From Pueblo – With Heat Exhaustion!
Ok, let’s get this out of the way right now: Pueblo Motorsports Park’s drag strip is also part of their road course. Therefore, there is a flagger station on the track…which, as any...
More Ship, Less Cruise: 1972 AMC Ambassador
Alright…one of the biggest regrets in my automotive history was an American Motors Ambassador just…like…this. Okay, luckily enough for me, the Ambassador I had history with...
Jolly Green Giant: Finnegan’s Green Ramp Truck Gets Blown
Boats and ho-ley moley, those are some huge trucks. We love ya, Mike, but dude, this truck fascination of yours is a bit out there, even for us…and yes, that does include all of the weird junk...
FREE, LIVE Coverage Of Rocky Mountain Race Week Today! Join Us For The Final Day Of Racing From Bandimere!
We will be going LIVE at 3 p.m. Mountain time! We are on the road and are ready to kick off the fun that is Rocky Mountain Race Week! We are on the OG tour route this year. The final event is back...
Classic YouTube: Going Full-Vertical In A Blazer At Bowling Green
Oil downs are an absolute killer at a drag race. Instead of roaring engines and frying tires, we get the joy of watching the track cleanup crew clean and sweep the track to make sure the next racers...
Till The Soil: Bringing A Toyota-Powered Pontiac Tempest To A Pig Farm Drag Race
Prepared asphalt, concrete, some road deep in the industrial section of town…dirt. Quick question: which would you prefer to launch a car off of? Unless you’ve sitting pretty with the...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1981 GMC Caballero
The list of cars I actually want to own longer than a few weeks at a time is fairly short, to be honest. I want to sample everything, I want to push cars to the limit, I want to understand the...
Ground-Level Maintenance: Radiator Restoration From The Other Side Of The World
One phrase that gets me is “uneconomically repairable”. In certain situations, I understand why something can be uneconomical to repair…say you were off-roading and you went into...
Scaling The Backcountry: Headquake’s Ramcharger Carving Trails In The Yard
The other day, I had a pang for the 1984 Dodge Ramcharger that I bought on a whim, cleaned up, and flipped back in 2010. I sold it out of necessity, because I really liked the truck, but at the time...
The Ember: This 1974 Pontiac GTO Showed What Could’ve Been If They Had Stayed The Course
In 1973, General Motors introduced the redesigned A-body line. Delayed due to the strikes that the company had been suffering through, the new bodies were more formalized, featuring the Colonnade...
Lemons Out Of Lemonade: The Origin Behind The Motion Raceworks’ “Motion Marquis”!
First of all, it has to be said: Motion Raceworks is one of the sponsors who stepped up to make the 2020 Rocky Mountain Race Week livestream happen. We have to always highlight that, because...
Rough Start “Tour Of Temptation”: 1999 Mitsubishi 3000GT
As I’m typing this, I’m finally in Pueblo, Colorado. And am I grateful for that…if Great Bend, Kansas is qualified to be called “remote”, then everything in-between the...
