Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CHEVY, FORD, Monday Shopper, MOPAR
Top 11: Picks From The Mecum Chicago Auction – Can We Predict A Decent Deal In The Catalog?
Oct 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
11. 1968 Oldsmobile 98 Convertible It’s the size of Rhode Island, comfortable as a barcalounger, drinks like an angry Scotsman, and looks like New England old money. This...
This Snotty Chevy Pulling Truck Will Hike The Front Tires And Spew Flames Out Of The Pipes!
Sep 25, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
Clint Manzer’s Chevy is just a freaking beast. We can’t tell if it’s a shortbed truck that got a flatbed or if it’s a Blazer, as the announcer calls out (she calls it a 1972,...
Two Of The Most Unlikely Rally Cars We’ve Ever Seen In Action: An Early C3 Corvette And A Ferrari 308!
Sep 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
A Ferrari 308 and an early C3-era Chevrolet Corvette racing isn’t that big of a deal, even against each other in the same race. Both nameplates are pretty much synonymous with multiple forms...
This Sixth-Gen Camaro Tears Up The ‘Ring During Testing, But What Is It, ZL1 or Z/28?
Sep 21, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on This Sixth-Gen Camaro Tears Up The ‘Ring During Testing, But What Is It, ZL1 or Z/28?
We are still a ways from seeing the sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro up close and personally, but thanks to the world of the smartphone and YouTube, we are able to see what manufacturers are up to...
Run 10 Seconds The Quick And Easy Way – Buy This 1979 Chevy Malibu!
Sep 20, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Has Drag Week or any of the other racing really ramped up that itch of yours to finally find something to go hit the track with? Do you just want to get out there and get going, instead of piecing...
Police Have Made Arrests In The Woodward Dream Cruise Car Thefts, Still Looking For The Cars
Sep 20, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
Detroit Police have made a breakthrough on the car thefts that occurred shortly after this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise. Six people were arrested as a result of a chop shop raid in the...
Teach Them Well: This Robotics And Automation Professor’s 600+RWHP Camaro Is A Track Machine!
Sep 19, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Teach Them Well: This Robotics And Automation Professor’s 600+RWHP Camaro Is A Track Machine!
I should probably start this story out with an apology. I first encountered Brian Sparks’ Camaro early in the morning the day I took our project Chrysler to the NCM Motorsports Park back in...
Casey Woodside’s Fifth-Gen Camaro Is His First Car, His Race Car, And His Daily!
Sep 18, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Casey Woodside’s Fifth-Gen Camaro Is His First Car, His Race Car, And His Daily!
It’s a daily driver, it’s raced hard enough to place in the Optima Ultimate Street Car challenge and to hang with the serious builds during the LS Fest autocross and 3S Challenge, and if...
Top 11: McTaggart’s Picks From LS Fest 2015 – With Hundreds Of Cars Present, How Do You Decide?
Sep 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart10
Pick eleven cars from LS Fest for a list. Sounds easy, but it isn’t. Holley had eleven cars in front of their display that I would’ve sold a sibling into slavery for, and that...
Rough Start: The Nicest Small A-body Monte Carlo You Can Get For Under Five Grand
Sep 09, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
Most people think of the 1982-up cars when suggesting an Eighties Monte Carlo, and a lot of that is due to the love-or-hate looks of the A-body 1978-1981 version. A departure from the Colonnade body...
Quick Gallery: The National Corvette Museum’s 21st Annual Celebration – Oh, For The Love Of All Things Fiberglass!
Sep 08, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
When your backyard is Bowling Green, Kentucky, you can’t help but notice the Corvettes everywhere normally. The city has pretty much prospered from the second that General Motors decided to...
Quick Gallery: The Re-Opened Skydome At The National Corvette Museum
Sep 07, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
Re-opening the Skydome exhibit at the National Corvette Museum is the closing of a strange and sad chapter for the curators: the sinkhole that opened up in the karst formation underneath the display...
Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of The Restoration Of The 1 Millionth Corvette – From Sinkhole To Stunner!
Sep 06, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
Once the team from the National Corvette Museum had extracted all of the Corvettes that were swallowed up by the sinkhole, the task began of determining what cars would and would not be restored. The...
BangShift Project Files: Tubbed And Tube-Framed Makes For One Seriously Interesting Chevette
Sep 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
The lesson we all learn about cars is that there are two ways to make them faster: you either add horsepower or you remove weight. Most of what we cover involves adding horsepower. Removing weight is...