Category Archive: MISC, Videos
This Is The End, My Friend: This Time Lapse Video Shows The Scrapping Of The Kalakala
Mar 16, 2015Bryan McTaggart8
(Lead photo: Tacoma News Tribune/Dean J. Koepfler) After decades of limbo, many a grand plan that failed and numerous wistful glances into the past, the ferry Kalakala is no more, having been...
This Is What Happens When The Rear Suspension Fails At 110 Miles An Hour
Mar 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
17-year-old Ryan Savage had been having one hell of a day out at Donington Park in his Lotus Elise 111R. He had just set the fastest-ever Donington lap for the Elise Cup and was generally doing very...
Behind The Scenes Of The Parachuting Cars Scene In “Furious 7” – Yes, They Really Did Shove Cars Out Of A Plane!
Mar 15, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
Nobody here is going to, for one second, argue that any of the “Fast and Furious” movies showcase real life. Hondas driving under semi trailers, a Yenko Camaro with an ejection seat, and...
Chevrolet Celebrates The 500,000th Fifth-Gen Camaro And Teases The Sixth-Generation In This Video
Mar 15, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Chevrolet Celebrates The 500,000th Fifth-Gen Camaro And Teases The Sixth-Generation In This Video
When the Camaro returned for it’s fifth generation in early 2009 as a model-year 2010 car, it was a retro design that went straight for the first generation Camaro’s styling. Love it or...
More Russian Dashcam Footage! A Truck Blows The Tires Off On A Major Roadway!
Mar 12, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
Have you ever driven on a highway and had a semi-truck blow one of it’s tires apart? I had it happen to me once a few years back, one loud boom as the tire exploded, a couple seconds...
Roadkill! The Guys Freeze Their Bits Off Delivering A Buick Wagon To A Fan
Mar 08, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
There is one thing I know, unconditionally, about Freiburger and Finnegan: they are not happy men when it comes to bitter cold weather. To be honest, neither am I, but when they were helping me with...
Check Out This Footage of Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins Running At The 1968 NHRA Nationals – Gear Jamming With A Cigar
Mar 05, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
“Grumpy” Jenkins’ status as an NHRA legend is uncontested. Wheeling a number of violent Chevrolets, Jenkins was an engineer first, racer second, and tolerated no fools at the line....
Historical Footage: The 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Was A Winner, But It’s Commercial Was A Loser
Mar 05, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
The more I research into the older television ads, the more I wonder what kind of drugs people were really taking. We’ve found some winners over the years that are worthy of cringing, but this...
What Happens When The Pace Car Causes Problems? This Video Shows You What Happens When Things Go Wrong For The Safety Car
Mar 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart3
The pace car, the safety car…whatever you call it, it’s job is to keep the drivers safe when things aren’t all right on the track. Whether it’s a NASCAR track or a road...
Unhinged: The Satisfaction Of Vindication…or, Thank You, Regular Car Reviews, For Showing What A 1999 Blazer Really Is
Mar 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart10
Shortly after joining the Army in 2001, I had come to the conclusion that I needed to focus on saving the money I was making and to become more a more responsible adult than I had been prior to...
Carlos Lago Tests Out The Mercedes-Maybach S600 By Chauffeuring A Celebrity Around In Luxury. Take A Guess Who Rode In Luxury…
Mar 03, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
When Mercedes sent the new Mercedes-Maybach S600 to Motor Trend to test out, surely they knew the kind of clientele that the Motor Trend staff would put into the car. The new Maybach, although at...
What’s Green, Small, And Can Lay Waste To A Porsche? This All-Electric BMW 3-Series…Meet The Green Monster
Mar 02, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
You see that green E30 BMW laying waste to the BMW M6? It’s a full-on electric conversion. The M6 that is currently having it’s own backside handed to it on a silver platter came with...
This Nissan GT-R Launches Hard…Not Off The Line, But Over The Barrier!
Feb 28, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
The Nissan GT-R may have not been designed as a drag racer, but when you combine the twin-turbo 3.8L V6 with a brilliant all-wheel-drive system and a launch control system that can best be described...
Historical Footage: Car and Track’s Test Of The 1973 Buick Century Gran Sport Stage 1 455
Feb 27, 2015Bryan McTaggart4
By 1973 it seemed that only Pontiac was still in the business of making a stout big-block-powered car with the Super Duty Trans Am. And before you start, yes, I know that the Pontiac mills...