Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
The Grunt: 1986 Chevrolet M1008 CUCV – Working From Day One
In the world according to me, the AM General HMMWV would’ve been a dedicated wartime machine, kitted up as a kind of fast-mover or gun platform vehicle, and would not have become the...
The Brightening, Part 3: The Barn-Find Camaro Gets Polished Up For It’s Upcoming Sale
I love second-generation Camaros. I do not like the 1978-81 Camaro. It’s not for a styling perspective so much, but instead it’s due to several rubber-nosed cars that showed up and gave...
Classic YouTube: 1972 Southeastern 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway
The heat has finally made it’s way to BangShift Mid-West. Today wasn’t nuclear hot, but it’s the first day of the year that western Kentucky’s infamous humidity made an...
Random Car Review: A Couple Of Brazillian Ford Oddities For You To Enjoy!
Right now, in one of the Facebook groups I follow, there’s a big showing of Brazil-market vehicles that the masses are eating up. Brazil is an interesting vehicle market…they have some...
The Banana Boat: 1973 Pontiac Grand Am 455, Proof That Power And Comfort Could Exist
I’ve held a belief for years that somewhere around 1972, a civil war erupted within Pontiac. On one side you had Herb Adams and everybody who idealized power, performance, a bit of flash, and a...
The Ironing Board: What Happens When 1.5 Tons Of Concrete Land On An E30 BMW?
For years, scientists predicted that the Puget Sound region of Washington was due for a quake, and on February 28, 2001, they got it. The Nisqually earthquake measured out as a 6.8 on the Richter...
Unhinged: A Toast To The Good Ol’ Truck
The Spring of 2020 brought enough problems with it, but here at BangShift Mid-West, we’ve been on a roll a bit longer than that. The fun really kicked off late last year, when an uninsured...
Driving Movie Slapfight: Going 2-0 In The War With “Death Proof”!
Not a peep? Not a squeak? Not even a crack about “only picked it because it had a Mopar in it”? Color me shocked, I figured Lohnes would’ve fired back with some virtually unknown,...
Classic YouTube: The 1964 Daytona 500 – Ford Versus Chrysler, Richard Petty
The 1964 Daytona 500 was the moment that Chrysler Corporation dropped the H-bomb on the world of Grand National racing: the 426 Race Hemi was unloaded in full force in retaliation for Ford’s...
Bangshift Question Of The Day: How Do You Justify The Risk Of Racing?
In the last few weeks, the concept of risk versus reward have become seriously tested. Is the reward of that cheeseburger that you’ve been missing worth the risk of the sickness? It’s a...
The Perfect Daily Driver Is Back! 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24, With Blown 3.8L V6 And Five-Speed!
Last Spring, after seeing what my travel schedule looked like, my wife decided that it was high time that we purchase a fuel-mileage oriented car. I conceded. Nothing against Angry Grandpa’s...
BangShift Project Files: 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Preparing For An LS4 Swap
I’m old enough to remember seeing Luminas like this one everywhere. I’m young enough to not quite fully understand why everybody hated them as much as they did. So bear with me on that,...
The Half-Dead Hornet Trip, Part 3: The Wagon Lives! Firing Up A Long-Dormant Sportabout X
In the last installment of Jacob Davis’s descent into Kenosha madness, he was on the road driving a Hornet coupe behind his father’s truck, which was towing the Sportabout X wagon that he...
