Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Drift Beretta: How Chevy’s Front-Drive Two-Door Got Blended With A Camaro To Create This Monster!
YouTube is such a grab-bag of whatever. Some days all you see is a bunch of teenagers in 1990s Mustangs doing donuts behind a grocery store before they get busted by the cops, and sometimes you get...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Turbo Lover” by Judas Priest (1986)
Oh, dear sweet lord, now we’re diving into some history here. I’m a firm believer that certain music from your history shapes you. Certain songs have the ability to do more than just...
A Forester In The Forest: Putting Subaru’s Crossover To The Test In West Virgina!
The Subaru Forester was the first move Subaru made towards an actual sports-utility vehicle. Same all-wheel-drive and boxer engines as the Legacy, same off-roading kind of bend that the Legacy...
Morning Symphony: Gassers Abroad! The Gasser Circus At Santa Pod!
Straight axles, a nose-high stance and a propensity for yanking the wheels on the launch while most of the weight shifts to over the rear axle. Fenderwell-exit headers, classic paint licks, and...
Too Close: FCA Wins Legal Battle Against Mahindra’s Roxor
When Mahindra decided that the Roxor, a descendant of the Jeep CJ that Mahindra got license to produce in 1947 and had renewed through 2009, would make a great fit in the U.S. market as an...
Rampside: Jay Leno Goes Over His 1961 Corvair 95 Rampside Pickup
Okay, you have to admire Jay Leno for heading to the garage with a camera in hand, ready to go. One, the dude is up there in age where he should probably be a bit careful. Two, he’s in...
How Sketchy Can A Cadillac Trar From Florida Be? Diving Into The Best Worst Decision Ever!
When Jacob first showed off a lifted 1967 Cadillac that had been swapped onto a Chevy K10 frame and was riding on big-ass tires, the first impression…well, let’s be fair. Whenever you...
Money No Object: 1999 Shelby Series 1 Prototype – Shelby And Oldsmobile, Who Would’ve Thought?
There was such hope for this car when it started bubbling the rumor mill. It was Shelby’s first fully in-house vehicle, the whole way through, front to back. It was the engine from the...
Air Pump? Water Pump? Whatever! A Dentside Ford Brought Back To Life!
It’s a cycle, ain’t it? You get all excited for your new project. Sure, it’s rough…it’s got it’s issues…but you’re excited and nothing is going to get...
Rough Start: 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Classic – Fresh From A Peel
So back in the day…wow, a decade ago now, odd to think about!…I was in a love-hate relationship with my 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle. The car itself was awesome to drive…the engine was a...
Only Two Weeks Left To Win This 1969 Mustang Mach 1! Time Is Ticking Down On Your Chance To Enter To Win!
Mach 1. Out of all of the sub-model names that the Ford Mustang has received, that is easily my favorite. Mach 1…a product of the late 1960s, which saw interest in supersonic transport aircraft...
Classic YouTube: Derrick Cope’s Tremendous Tire Explosion At Watkins Glen In 2016
Mangled sheetmetal at a NASCAR race isn’t exotic. In fact, many consider it a rite of passage to finish the race with a rear bumper that’s been tapped more times than a keg, doors that...
Random Car Review: The 1983-86 Ford Mustang Predator G.T. 302
If you wanted a hot Mustang in the early 1980s, the choice was simple: you ordered a Mustang GT with the 5.0 V8, a manual trans, and there you go. What you did with it after that was completely on...
Small Edit: Foose Sketches Up His One Change To A 1970 Chevelle
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle LS-6 454 was the first car that I understood as a “muscle car”. The look was perfect…take the typical two-door hardtop form of the bread and butter...