Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
The Littlest Banshee: GHPC’s Snowmobile-Powered Triumph Is Back Under The Knife!
After spending the winter months concentrating on how to kill themselves with building a KTM-powered Power Wheels Jeep, the Grind Hard Plumbing Co. guys have turned their attention back to their...
Classic YouTube: This 1964 FAA Controlled Crash Test Of A Douglas DC-7 – When You Must Be Certain Every Safety Feature Will Work…
Deer Valley, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has a rather grim history in the aviation world: for quite some time the FAA used the Deer Valley Airport to perform aircraft crash testing. The goal: to...
What’s Social Distancing? 1967 Checker Aerobus Eight-Door Throws That Idea In The Trash!
For the fans of a long roof, the ultimate achievement are airporters. If you are unfamiliar with the term, it’s probably because you’re younger and missed the glory days of air travel....
“Watch The Limbs”: Busted Knuckle Films’ “Maximum Destruction 2”
Smashing, bashing, breaking, carnage, swearing, bystanders gaining a healthy fear of a rapidly escalating situation…no, that’s not this video so much, that’s me breaking up the...
Steep Descent: Dropping A Cessna Onto A Trampoline…Will It Bounce?
When I was working with helicopters, I was once asked by a friend of a friend something to the effect of, “If there was one thing to share about a ‘copter with somebody that knows nothing...
How Do You Pick? 1320Video’s Favorite Rides From Powercruise 80
I cannot begin to explain my jealousy over Kyle’s recent trip to Australia. Powercruise was the first show I’d ever heard about, the first one I equated to burned tires, skids for...
Historical Footage: Henri Toivonen Running The RAC Rally In A Talbot Sunbeam
Henri Toivonen’s fame may lie as the man whose death signaled the death of Group B Rally when his Lancia Delta plunged over the side of a cliff at Corsica in 1986, but it wasn’t due to...
The Marathon: NASCAR Will Run Seven Races In Less Than Two Weeks In Real Life
Holy hell, talk about catching up. With the world starting to show signs of motion after being down with the sickness for the last month and a half, many are eager to get out there and get back to a...
Would You Rather, Big Black Barge Edition: Marauder or Impala SS?
(Lead photo: Flickr/Chuck Jones) They’re both an extinct breed. Both were shrunken from their original forms, but could not get smaller and efficient enough to survive in the end. Both were...
Oooh, Pretty: Kinsler Fuel Injection System For Small-Block Chevrolet
Carburetor versus fuel injection. It’s one of those wars of opinion that will never see an end. There are those who are fiercely loyal to carburetors, and there are those who will swear up and...
BangShift’s Unknown Parts Counter Guy: You’re About As Essential As Lavender Oil
You know, I was beginning to enjoy the quiet. Sharing a meme every now and then on Facebook with some like-minded individuals, lightly chuckling at typical parts-guy jokes like the whole...
The Cockpit View Of The “Hot Stuff” Accident At The Reno Formula 1 Air Race Is Genuinely Horrifying
With aircraft, any mention of the word “crash” (or any of it’s synonyms, like “incident”, “incursion”, or the ubitiquous “oh, shit!”)...
Money No Object: 1969 Chevrolet Camaro COPO 9561 – The Brutalist
Park A 1969 RS/SS Camaro next to this car for a second, and proceed to eliminate that gene mutation that tells most of you why you should look at this car. Go stock for stock for a moment, like...
In The Beginning: 1977 Dodge Colt Dressed Up As Mitsubishi Lancer
In the early 1970s, a lot of manufacturers started to look at the idea of a “world car”, a platform that they could sell to multiple markets with the least amount of work necessary for...