Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Lohnes-Bait: Homebuilt Power-Articulating Dump Truck Build All Done At Home!
For a man who has been going and doing for the last several years almost non-stop, I have to wonder just how he is really doing with all of this “stuck at home” time. Sure, he’s...
Gone In 60 Seconds Before Homework: A Gang Of Kids Stole Over A Million Dollars’ Worth Of Vehicles From Dealerships!
What gives with kids and driving in the news this week? First we get to hear about the five-year-old who ran off with $3 in his wallet and the family SUV to go drive to California to buy a...
Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s KTM-Powered Jeep Is Better Than We Could’ve Expected! Beastly!
I’ve ridden dirt bikes, quads, three-wheelers and street bikes. I’ve driven off-road in everything from a clapped-out Ford Fiesta to a mid-1970s Chrysler product that was beefed up for...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Far Have You Gone To Make Something Work?
I would like to say that I remain calm and collected at all times, that my temper is in check and that I can take a deep breath and walk away from a bitch of a job for a moment, to return with a...
Maximum Effort: Driving The Classics How They Should Be Driven!
There are three mentalities where classic race car stewardship is concerned. One views the old cars as some kind of museum piece, one that should only be trotted out to shows, and maybe the average...
The “WTF?!” Files: 1981 Dodge Colt…er, Colts?
Way back in the day, both of my aunts on my mother’s side had Dodge Colts from the early 1980s, both RS models. In my grandfather’s eye, they were the perfect little car for a woman who...
Patching Up: Putting Some Much-Needed Structural Integrity Back Into A Chevelle’s Rotted Frame!
Ever since Derek from Vice Grip Garage got ahold of this 1972 Chevelle, the story has been about how completely and utterly effed the poor car was. Driving it seemed to be a situation that would test...
Rough Start: 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu – The Daily-Driver Deal
The amount of disgust that was thrown at cars like this 1976 Chevrolet Malibu back in the day bordered on the idiotic. I’ll be fair…for an intermediate car, they were freaking huge, the...
Getting To Mach 6.07: A Look Into Testing the X-15 Rocket Plane
Mach 6.70 is the top speed reached by the North American X-15. In fact, it’s the fastest manned rocket plane that has ever been. That’s 4,520 miles per hour, which was achieved by William...
Morning Symphony: The Greatest’s Trophy 2019, Filled With 1950s and 1960s Hits
Sometimes it helps to get away from the V8 roar and to remember that there are many different options available for going fast. Sounds like heresy coming from us, we know, but there are all sorts of...
Getting Tipsy: The Jeep Wrangler JL Rolled Over In Overlap Crash Tests
Not that FCA needed anything to go wrong this year, but beyond the obvious issues affecting everybody, they’ve now got a problem with one of their best sellers. The Jeep Wrangler JL was...
Random Car Review: The Dodge Magnums of Mexico
Say “Dodge Magnum” in the United States and you get one of three ideas in your head: either the engine series (which are slightly tweaked versions of the 318ci V8 and the 360ci V8 that we...
Just Go And Buy One: The Five-Year-Old Who Tried Driving To California To Buy A Lamborghini
One of the more fun stories that bounce around my family is an incident where, when I was five, I tried driving off in a Ford Mustang. It wasn’t an isolated incident. By the time I was five I...
