Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
The Dirty Cougar: That Cheap AeroCat Has Gained One Hell Of An Attitude Adjustment!
It’s amazing what a couple of months of being stuck at home can do when you have a car that needs work, you have the tools to get some stuff done, and you have a vision. In the case of the...
Epic Crash Test Video: Throwing A Volvo Off A Cliff In The Name Of Safety!
When you base everything your company builds on the backbone of safety first, there will come a time when you have to put up or shut up. Volvo has ridden the safety bandwagon for as long as...
6/05: The Mercedes-Benz OM605 Diesel…Yeah, They Can Hustle!
Alright, so for 6/05, you would think that’d we be hunting down some monster combo that’s got enough noise to stir up a local government meeting, enough torque to get a ship’s...
One Step Too Far: Has Vice Grip Garage Finally Found A Truly Dead Truck?
The one thing I appreciate about Vice Grip Garage’s Derek is that he has determination. Living in the northern wilds of the United States, right around peak Rust Belt, that isn’t...
Close Enough: Finnegan Finally Gets The Full Force Of His Wicked Twin-Turbo Jet Boat!
Okay, by his own admission, he wasn’t a full 100% throttle on his passes. But anything over quarter-throttle in what basically is a wood plank with a twin-turbocharged Sonny Leonard mill...
More In-Depth 3rd Gen Hemi Details From Uncle Tony, With A Focus On The Camshaft
If you remember back a few years, we made it to 126,xxx miles on our 2006 Chrysler 300C’s stock 5.7 Hemi before we pulled it out and did an upper-end build on the engine. I was very intrigued...
Woosh Right Along: 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe – The Other Turbocharged American Coupe!
Is a Fox body the same across the board? I don’t think so. There’s “Mustang”, and then there’s “everything else”, it seems. Don’t get me wrong,...
Rough Start: 1978 Dodge Motorhome….Why Does It Look Bagged In This Picture?!
I’m almost embarrassed to admit it, but I had never noticed the little tab on Facebook Marketplace that allows you to scroll between just vehicles and categories like “Powersport”,...
Morning Symphony: Man And Bike Versus Gravity And The Earth
For the better part of the afternoon yesterday, all I could hear was the sound of a two-stroke weedeater going to town as I cleaned up the better part of the property that BangShift Mid-West sits on....
Classic YouTube: Check Out This 1957 Chrysler Corporation Training Film – Nine-Way Car Battle With Buick, Olds And Cadillac!
This Chrysler Corporation training film might have been showcased as a nine-way vehicle test, but let’s be quite honest: no, it’s not. In the Fifties, the manufacturers were cut-throat...
The “WTF?” Files: The Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet Fire Truck Conversion
“Form follows function” simply means that the aesthetic shape of something (normally a building) should be dictated by the function or purpose of the design. Ergo, that’s why a fire...
Screw Tarmac: This Holden Commodore SS Rips Up A Rally Stage
If you have never taken a powerful car and threw it around on dirt, you ain’t living right. You’re basically telling me that every 1970s movie, The Dukes of Hazzard, and every other bit...
Carnage, Indeed: Here’s The Damage When A Tailshaft Disintegrated On The Dyno!
If you haven’t been following the Buick V6 build that Street Machine has been putting together for their Holden Berlina, then you might have missed the note that it’s being built for a...
