Author Archive: Bryan McTaggart
A 572 Hemi-Powered Dodge Polara Coupe In All Green…There Is A Heaven! Watch This Big Barge Take A Run Down The Quarter
The note from Scott Liggett was simple and succinct: “I know you like the big cars.” And he isn’t kidding…properly powerful big coupes are a weakness of mine, but an...
Ported Or Manifold Vacuum Advance: Where To Source And When?
You know that whole thing about “you’re never too old to learn”? Yeah…let’s talk tuning for a second. What I know about tuning is just enough to be dangerous. I can set...
Volkswagen Vanagon Westfalia: The Rolling Micro-Hotel That Is Still Adored
In 1989, I was a tubby little six-year-old with almost no adult supervision worth mentioning and all the freedom in the world. The only thing that kept me from being considered feral by the local...
Nervous Aircraft Passenger? Then You Might Not Want To See The Approach To This Peruvian Airport
If there is one thing you don’t ever want to see or hear as a pilot in command of an airplane, it’s the terrain approaching warning going off like a panicking five-year-old. Not that the...
Classic YouTube: The 1970 Motor State 400 – The Aero Wars In Full Effect!
It made NASCAR executives nervous and it turned engineers and drivers into generals at war. Ford and Chrysler both wanted NASCAR track dominance, and both were hell-bent on getting there one way or...
The Barra/Granada Swap, Part Four: Time To Quit Dragging Ass!
So far, all of the attention made on the 1976 Ford Granada that Fuel Injection Sucks is swapping an Australian Barra six into has been focused on the engine swap itself. And that’s as it should...
Who’s The Bad Guy: Donut Media Tries To Find The Blame In The Loss Of Holden
It was only recently that Holden was properly dragged behind the building and shot in the temple, but ask most Australians and the proper answer to “When did Holden die?” would be 2017,...
Rebel Without The Name: 1971 American Motors Matador – Part Machine, Part Brick
Prior to 1971, the car a step below the top-tier Ambassador in American Motors’ lineup was the Rebel, and it could be had in about every form, form dependable six-cylinder station wagon to the...
Rough Start Fox Mustang: Engine Progress, Detail Work And Bonus Pumpkin Work Too!
We’ve been saying it ever since the whole stay home, stay safe mindset came into being: if you’re gonna be stuck at home, there’s a garage and probably a project car that needs...
Rough Start: 1985 Oldsmobile 442 – Clean Base, Now Get To Building!
With my strong Mopar base, my current Mustang projects, it tends to surprise people that my roots are strongest with GM G-bodies. I’ve had more G-cars than I’ve had FJM Mopars…three...
Perfect Price: Watch As This Free Lawn Mower Is Brought Back To Life!
So, out of all of the projects that could be worked on at BangShift Mid-West, there are two that are not being worked on right now. One is Angry Grandpa, and it’s not being messed with for the...
Stock Cars Racing: Enjoy The Full Shot Of The Freedom 500 Race At Cleetus’s Track, With Pre-Show!
Stuck inside or not, missing racing action or not, we have to hand it to Cleetus McFarland. The dude bought a race track. He busted his ass to get his track into operable order. And just before...
The End Of An Odyssey? Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Honda Gets Prettied Up!
From the word “go” I was all in about the build of this Honda Odyssey. I lusted after one of these as a kid. I loved the power of my three-wheelers but really wanted to get my four-wheel...
The Colander: Bringing An XY Falcon Back From What Should Have Been Sure-Fire Death
How much rot is too much rot? Can you live with crispy rear quarters or does that grind a nerve? Can you tolerate a pin-holed roof or is it time to say good-bye? Do you care if you are doing Fred...