Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
Rough Start: Mom, Get The Small-Block! This 1980 Chevette Needs It!
Don’t try to walk in here making sense. Don’t say it’s too small and would be much too wild on the street. Don’t sweat the small stuff like creature comforts that you’ve...
Historical Footage: Introducing The 1957 Chrysler Corporation Forward Look Fleet!
The 1957 Chrysler product line was a bombshell to Ford and GM when it debuted. Chrysler had just brought out new bodies in 1955, and neither of the other manufacturers were prepared for when the 1957...
Unhinged: The “Bronco II Incident”, Or How I Managed To Not Land A Truck On A Friend
In the summer of 2000, I was living a teenage fantasy: I was living all but unsupervised, had a job at a carpet installation shop, a T-top Monte Carlo to bomb around in, a girlfriend, a couple of...
Morning Symphony: Turbocharger Heaven On The Burnout Pad
Australian burnout contests are pretty predictable: something with a blower case the size of a small child is going to roll out onto the pad and proceed to give that climate activist from Sweden...
Unveiled: Ford Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 Prototype – 8-Second All Electric Drag machine
It’s difficult to determine whether or not the electric movement is going to actually permeate into the performance world properly or if it’s just a wish, but there’s no doubt that...
BangShift Blog Battle: Pick The Best Car From My Year Of Birth? I Can Do Better Than Lohnes At This!
Something has been itching at the back of my brain for the last couple of days, and it’s a strange one to think of. What was the best car built during the year of my birth. I’ve said many...
Question Of The Day: What Would Be Your Dream “Phantom” Build?
Let’s start this Question of the Day off with a confession: by the time you read this, I’ll probably be in the doghouse. Why? Because I have a confession: I am not a huge fan of my...
Ring This: Monster AWD Audi Action That Was…Left In The File Cabinet?!
Leave it to a pandemic to get people to dig through their files to find old, cool stuff to show off. I’m in no hurry, because pretty much everything I’ve owned (at least since 2001,...
K, Then: One Turbocharged Honda K-Series Powered Smart Car, Coming Up!
Owning a Smart car is…well, not smart. Unless you live in a European city that has the parking situation of a jigsaw puzzle…you know, one of those 2,000-plus piece deals that were made...
Proper Caretaking: This 1968 Porsche 911 Is Living A Properly Charmed Live!
Every now and then, I’ll talk with some of my non-car friends about cars. Sometimes it’s about what I’ve been messing with, actual interest in what I’m doing. Sometimes...
Rough Start: 1986 Mitsubishi Starion With A Rover V8 Swap
Is it just us, or are the Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest twins the only car where nobody seems to care which one it is? Even the owners are like, “Yeah, it’s a Mitsubishi Starion...
This Footage From the 1995 Camel Trophy Shows Just How Grueling The Trek Was For Mundo Maya
The Camel Trophy series was a brutal test of man and machine in some of the most challenging terrain ever found on the Earth. Starting with three German teams driving Ford U50s (a Jeep CJ built under...
Wrong Circuit, Right Reasons: Tom Bailey Goes For Laps At The Freedom Factory
Wrong vehicle, wrong situation. Funny how that makes for some awesome stories, isn’t it? There’s a nice mud pit out and about, and there were plenty of off-road rigs tearing it up, but...
Morning Symphony: 20,000 Pound Hot Rod Semi Pulling Trucks
The interstates are loaded with semi trucks hauling weight across the country, everything from chemicals and commodities to food and fuel. The entire purpose of these big rigs is to move weight...