Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Crazy Taxi: An Update On The Turbo 4200-Swapped Checker Marathon
The guys behind Fuel Injection Sucks have been dormant for a few weeks, and not for the reason you would expect. Yeah, being in the Northeast during the pandemic isn’t ideal, for sure, but the...
You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Tulsa, Oklahoma Is Thirsty For Tesla To Show Up
Over the last few weeks, Elon Musk has made it clear that he’s just about up to the brim with California’s rules and regulations, especially in the wake of COVID-19, where he has become...
Kenosha Street Sweeper: 1960 Rambler Cross Country Wagon
American Motors products always seemed to have a little bit of this and a little bit of that in their parts, in their design language, and in their attitudes. They built smaller economy-minded cars...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Swap Were You Too Afraid To Try When You Were A Kid?
Hey, would you look at that…the oldest picture I have of any of my cars! In this picture you see three from back in the day. Front and center are two of my Olds Cutlasses, the green 1978 (then...
The Challenger Revival, Part 16: Finishing Up The Stance And Tending To Details
The devil is in the details, you were taught as a child. It was one thing to wash the car for attention, but did you just soap and water the car, or did you actually clean the wheels, scrub off the...
Classic YouTube: HEMTT Burnouts – Boredom And A Detroit Diesel Make For Some Downtime Fun
By far and wide the biggest vehicle I have driven to date is an Oshkosh HEMTT, in various forms. These 34 feet long, 20-ton 8×8 monsters are one of the most unsung workhorses of the military...
Kick The Pig: Stirring A Sitting 6.5L Diesel To Life In A Chevy 3500HD
You ever notice how you can pinpoint an engine just by it’s sound? A deep, almost rhythmic bassline with just a bit of pop to it sounds like a big-block Mopar at idle. That raspy rise through...
Unhinged: Does It Feel Like Project Rush? It Does To Me!
From the jump, let’s be honest: given what I do for work, the pandemic and the lockdowns were going to affect me differently than if I had any other job. I write from home most of the time....
Went For Broke: Lost Footage Of Finnegan Going All-Out At The Freedom Factory Video Shoot
One of the biggest deals of 2020 that doesn’t have the word “pandemic” attached to it came right at the beginning of the year, when Garrett Mitchell (read: Cleetus McFarland)...
Laying Down Laps: Daddy Dave Working Through Pro Street At The Throwdown In T-Town
T.V. show or not, fame or not, Dave Comstock is one bad son of a bitch when it comes to being the guy in the car on the starting line. Whenever he rolls “Goliath 2.0” onto the line,...
Flight At The Museum: Get A Mini-Drone Perspective Of The Mercedes-Benz Museum In Stuttgart!
Feel like traveling to Germany anytime soon to check out the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart anytime soon? Well…we don’t have to tell you how likely that is, do we?Yeah, we know, things...
Rough Start: Go For A Stretch With This 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood!
Thanks to COVID-19, a lot of businesses are packing it in due to a sudden, sharp lack of demand in services. Don’t believe me? Hertz has gone bankrupt. Yeah, that’s right, the land of...
Your Excuse To Go Home And Drink: LS Fest West Has Been Cancelled
Yeah, we know that events are finally starting to happen, places are finally starting to open up, and that it appears that a corner might have been turned in the royal cluster-…well, you know...
