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Top 11: McTaggart’s Picks From LS Fest 2015 – With Hundreds Of Cars Present, How Do You Decide?
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...
Top 11: Late-Model Concept Cars – Vehicles That The Manufacturers Used To Toy With Us
I love concept cars. I love the idea that one of the major manufacturers is so willing to test a future thought, or an unconventional layout, is even just nice enough to unchain the designers that...
Top 11: BangShift’s Picks From Mecum Dallas 2015 – Our Choices From A Musclecar-Heavy Lineup!
Normally, mulling through any auction house’s listings page is like reading Hemmings…sure, the cars are nice, possibly rare, but they are certainly out of your price range and are way too...
Top 11: Picks From The Mecum Harrisburg Auction – What Would The BangShifter Go For?
Another week, another auction, another fool parted with their money. It’s the same old song at some of these events: a few high-dollar, high-value items surrounded by a field of...
Top 11: McTaggart’s Delusions – Take Your Pick For The Strangest Thing To Come Out Of This Brain
When Brian and Chad hired me on last year, I’m sure even they had a thought or two about what I might bring to the table. I’ve been known for my strange, slightly off-the-wall ideas and...
BangShift Top 11: Which Songs Go With Which Roadkill Vehicles
Cars and music just go together. Certain cars make you think of certain types of music. I know that I can’t walk by a Christine clone Plymouth without the song “Little Bitty Pretty...
The Top 11: Best Factory Transmissions Ever Offered in American Cars
(Editor’s note: Apparently a Chrysler in-house magazine referenced this list when talking about the Torqueflite transmission this month, calling us “experts”. Because of that we dug...
BangShift Top 11: Cars From The 1980s That You Showed Us On Facebook!
In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote the rant about 1980s cars and attitudes while I was seeing red mist. It isn’t the first time I’ve lost my temper over other people’s...
Top 11: No V8 Needed – A Selection Of Cars We Would Take A Different Path With
(Lead photo: Bret Kepner) I can’t speak for the other two, but in my automotive history I’ve only dealt with two vehicles that did not have V8s: a Chevy Blazer that had the 4.3 V6, and a...
Top 11: Worst Engines of the 1980’s
Ah, the 1980’s. Chevy Chase going ballistic at his family. Christie Brinkley in a droptop Ferrari. Hair metal. Things were good…unless you were into cars. The musclecar movement was only just...
Top 11: McTaggart’s Best Pictures From 2014
If you had told me I would be doing this gig this time last year, I would’ve been floored. I’m writing this one year to the day I got my degree and walked across the stage. I started...
The Top 11: Most Dominant Race Cars Of All Time
If there is one thing I have learned in five years of writing these BangShift Top 11 lists it is that nothing gets the Hater-ade flowing harder and faster. Today’s list will probably be more of...
Top 11: The Cars McTaggart Did Not Expect To See On Vacation In Europe
As I headed towards the British Isles for my vacation, first and foremost on my mind was all of the cars that I would expect to see while I was there. No, seriously: after watching bootlegged copies...
Top 11: McTaggart’s List Of Euro-Only Rides That Caught His Eye While On Vacation
I’m sitting in a hotel in Dublin, Ireland, wrapping up the few weeks of touring that I’ve done. There will be more to the actual road trip story, fear not, but for now, let’s take a...