#Brandan Gillogly

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Celebrate 70 Years of AMC with 10 of Our Favorite Cars - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

AMC was founded on May 1, 1954, when Hudson Motor Car Company and Nash-Kelvinator Corporation merged to better compete and survive against the Big Three. The plan worked, to an extent: AMC outlived Studebaker, Packard, and Kaiser-Jeep, the latter of which survived the longest, making it to 1970 before it was acquired by AMC. In 1987 AMC itself was purchased by Chrysler, and today only Jeep…

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McLaren 765LT Spider

Image by Brandan Gillogly || IG

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Starring: BMW 850i

By Brandan Gillogly

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Daily Driver Diaries: Carpool Vacancy!

When I first met Brandan Gillogly he didn’t have a beard, and neither one of us worked for HOT ROD Magazine. The olden days. He was at Truckin’ and I was a lowly PR schlub. Then he worked his way over to HOT ROD under Rob Kinnan and Freiburger, and when Freiburger brought me on, it was Brandan who helped me dial in my car-to-car photography and learn to recognize all the different trim levels of Tri-Five Chevy. Together we took some epic roadtrips on Drag Week and only got lost five or six thousand times. Some of the best stories I’ve ever written were with Brandan as a co-driver, hitting up dragstrips in a Hellcat Charger, racing Jeff Lutz in SS Camaros, and pre-running Power Tour with stops at every single car museum, junkyard, and place to get ice cream. And sandwiches. And BBQ. And beef jerky.

Look at these two professional-looking journalists. Why wouldn’t you give them a press car?

We’re neighbors, so our car and culinary adventures don’t stop at the office door. We built our stroker engines side-by-side in my garage, and we regularly meet up for lunch on weekends. It’s good we get along, because with a 30-mile commute from our homes to the HOT ROD offices, we’ve spent a lot of time together in the carpool lane. I’ve bruised my shin on his Pontiac’s hard metal seat-back. He’s suffered through the slow-cooker roasting of a summer day in the Opel GT. We’ve been late to pick each other up because of dead batteries and empty fuel tanks, and we’ve been late to get home from the same. When I came to pick him up in the 1970 Dodge Challenger for its first freeway commute, he didn’t complain about the dangling wires in the dash or the smell of burning header paint, only saying, “Cool. What gauges do you want me to watch?”

Brandan is moving on to a new job in the automotive industry, and I look forward to reading his bylines and meeting him for lunch, but dang it, I’m really going to miss him in the carpool lane.

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Laguna Seca Lawsuit: Homeowners Perplexed as Iconic Race Track Materializes Overnight - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Imagine the shock if, after moving into your home, you discover that a popular and world-renowned race track had materialized overnight in your general vicinity. The horror. You’d rightfully be confused, possibly even enraged at such a happening, and keen to pursue a lawsuit. Believe it or not, this is exactly the phenomenon that unfolded recently. Based on our deepest reporting capabilities, we…

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10 of our Favorite Ford V-8s - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

2023 marks 120 years since Ford Motor Company was founded—on June 16, for you history buffs—and 20 years since Ford built its 100,000,000th V-8 engine. Since then, the company has made an increasing commitment to smaller, forced-induction engines. However, it certainly hasn’t given up on the V-8: The Blue Oval produced some of its best in the last 10 years. Ford Motor Company’s 120th is a great…

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6 Full-Size Alternatives to Muscle Cars - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Plenty of cars from the ’60s and ’70s offer beautiful designs and gutsy power plants but don’t neatly fall into the muscle car category. In the past, we’ve offered up some more affordable, midsize alternatives to the typical muscle car. This time, let’s delve into some of my favorite full-size cars from the era. Sure, they were bigger and heavier than their drag strip–hero counterparts, but they…

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7 classic trucks and SUVs under $20K -Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

The collector-vehicle market’s pandemic boom may be over, but the classic truck and SUV market is still very competitive, with plenty of ’60s and ’70s models commanding high values. But what about those of us who want a vintage truck or SUV—and have a tight budget? Short answer: There are still many collectible trucks and SUVs that remain affordable. We combed through our latest valuation data…

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Are you Bandit enough to hit the road in this visionary sixth-gen Trans Am? - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Are you Bandit enough to hit the road in this visionary sixth-gen Trans Am? – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Just about every Pontiac lover still mourns the loss of one of America’s coolest car brands. Pontiac built some of the brawniest muscle cars of the ’60s and ’70s and paired them with lurid graphics that were, quite frankly, over the top. If you think the high-contrast graphics on the Judge were too much, or look at the garish, screaming hood bird on the Trans Am and clutch your pearls, perhaps a…

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How to spot a Ford pushrod V-8, from flathead to 460 - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

How to spot a Ford pushrod V-8, from flathead to 460 – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

How to spot a Ford pushrod V-8, from flathead to 460 Let’s say it’s your lucky day, and you’ve found an engine laying around in the back of a garage with an unknown history. Or maybe you’re trying to discern which engine was swapped into a car, and all of the aftermarket parts between the fenders are muddying the waters. In any case, the first step is always to identify the engine Determining…

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Jeep trucks are bucking a common 4×4 price trend - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Jeep trucks are bucking a common 4×4 price trend – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

You’d have to be living under a sandstone outcropping in Moab to not notice that two-door 4×4 SUVs are among the hottest collectibles of the last decade or so. Led by the Ford Bronco, the classic two-door 4×4 SUV market has seemed to spur along the values of classic trucks as well. As we explained in a story earlier this year in which we compared the values of wagon to their sedan counterparts,…

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8 trucks that deserve another shot - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

8 trucks that deserve another shot – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

A year ago, we looked at some vehicles that had ambitious goals and yet fell short in one way or another. We argued that those four vehicles deserved another chance. Now, let’s focus on pickups that also meet those criteria. Here are eight pickups that offered up cargo hauling with some blend of comfort, fuel economy, or off-road prowess, but which nevertheless fell by the wayside as the…

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9 nameplates used across multiple marques - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

9 nameplates used across multiple marques – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Even back in the good ol’ days when a car’s alphanumeric badging actually told your what was going on under the hood, we preferred when cars had actual names like Eldorado and Falcon. Style and soul are important, and a name is part of that identity. Our favorite monikers evoke a feeling that matches the car, so once a brand has staked its claim to a good one, it resonates with the public and has…

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3 handy electronic tools to keep in your modern classic - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

3 handy electronic tools to keep in your modern classic – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Not everyone wants or needs to carry a tool kit in each vehicle they drive. Your late-model daily-driver that’s proved totally reliable shouldn’t need more than a spare tire and a jack, if that. Each tool kit should be balanced for the vehicle and its intended purpose. Even if you could carry a Snap-On truck’s worth of tools, many mechanical issues aren’t practical to fix on the side of the road.…

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Peek inside FDR’s flathead V-12-powered, armored 1942 Lincoln - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Peek inside FDR’s flathead V-12-powered, armored 1942 Lincoln – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

In its latest video celebrating million-dollar cars, the Petersen Automotive Museum takes an in-depth look at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s armored 1942 Lincoln, just in time for Presidents’ Day Petersen’s chief historian Leslie Kendall gives this tour from the museum’s Vault, where this Lincoln can usually be found surrounded by other cars that were used by various international heads…

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Rescued from rust, this Torino Talladega hits the salt with NASCAR power - Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

Rescued from rust, this Torino Talladega hits the salt with NASCAR power – Brandan Gillogly @Hagerty

A former road and oval-track racer, Larry Wilson decided to move to a racing discipline with less wheel-to-wheel contact. Land speed racing seemed appealing and, as a fan of ’60s muscle, he decided to search for a classic car that could scratch his racing itch and get his family involved as well. Having grown up owning Falcons, Mustangs, and Corvettes, Wilson was quite familiar with compact…