Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your Last Impulse Purchase For The Hobby?
Shortly after I woke up yesterday, I was texting with Luke from Thunderhead 289 over his latest acquisition, a big-bumper Ford Maverick four-door that someone went straight to the low-buck nuclear...
Morning Symphony: Renault Laguna BTCC Cars In Action
During my travels through Ireland and Scotland , the Renault Laguna had to be the one car that caught my eye. Don’t use that as a judging point, now…what little hands-on knowledge I have...
Independence Chevelle: Getting Started On Something Resembling Safety For The Build!
Okay…we’ve established that the 1972 Chevrolet Malibu that Vice Grip Garage has started calling “Independence” was sketchy…no, it was “Holy f*ck, man, are you...
Morning Symphony: Rockcrawling Around Calico, California’s Odessa Duran Loop Trail
Few phrases make an Army soldier cringe harder than “We’re going to NTC”. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California is infamous among the ranks for several things: zero...
Historic Footage: 1979 Talladega 500, With Lee Petty In The Booth!
If you have never experienced a Southern summer day, you won’t be able to quite grasp the important aspect of the 1979 Talladega 500, so let’s explain that real quick. The air is hot...
Classic YouTube: Thrashing Angry Grandpa During A Michelin Track-X Day At NCM Motorsports Park
Since this spring has been reduced to “get to work on the projects since there’s nothing else to do”, I’ve taken a bit of a critical eye of the fleet at BangShift Mid-West....
Rough Start: Go Big With A 1974 Dodge D-500 And Give The Old Farm Truck A Fair Shake
The Mopar itch is never too far from this soul, it seems. I might be up to the elbows in Ford products right now but there’s still a part of me that is dying inside for an older Chrysler ride...
Money No Object: The Period-Correct Pro Stock Dodge Challenger
With every barn I get invited to scope out, every garage I’m invited into, every story of “you gotta go check out what this guy has” that I hear, I always pray for a scene like...
Smooth And Stately: Experiencing A Toyota Century As The Businessman’s Brougham
Three years ago, while checking out some JDM imports at Roadtrip Motorcars in Kentucky, I got the chance to drive a Toyota Aristo…what you are probably more familiar with as a first-generation...
Solid Bet: Beefing Up The Rear Suspension On An A-Body Pontiac For Gamblin’ Adventures
Okay, I’ll say it: I’m still amazed that Kevin is actually going through with the build of this 1968 Pontiac LeMans. The car was submerged…probably a few times. It sat abandoned...
Temper Flare: Chase Elliott Throws Out His Own Flag On The Play After Getting Spun Out At Darlington
If there was any doubt that NASCAR drivers are content to be back in the cars and not behind the wheel of a sim racer, it all came out at Darlington on Wednesday, the second of seven races slammed...
Morning Symphony: It’s A Twin-Turbo, All-Wheel-Drive 1971 Chevelle That Puts Down About 1000 Horsepower In France!
Matting the throttle on a big-power muscle car is a riot for all of the right reasons: loud noises, mosquito-fogging levels of tire smoke, and you save your local DOT money by repaving the roadway in...
The Skid Factory MR2’s Engine Parts Get Inspected, Cleaned And Cleaned Some More!
If you haven’t started breaking down an engine only to stop each and every item removed and wonder what caused your life to land at this point, you don’t know what “fun” can...
Night At The Museum, Part 1: Leaving A Hoonigan Inside Of The Petersen Museum!
Car museums rule. If you haven’t checked one out ever, do it. I’ve got a few underneath my belt: the Ulster Transport Museum in Cultra, Northern Ireland; the LeMay-America’s Car...