RacingJunk Find: A Laid Out 1968 Impala Wagon That We Want Badly!
Posted in Racing Junk Find May 15, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We love wagons and we love big cars. Combine the two things and you’ve got a recipe for pure mechanical magic, which this 1968 Impala wagon is. Rolling around on some pretty big hoops and suspended with a load of RideTech products, this huge car is the epitome of cool. It is big enough to [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Complete, Turn Key, Modern Front Motor Top Fuel Car
Posted in Racing Junk Find May 10, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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While trolling around RacingJunk.com and oogling stuff we cannot afford and have no business owning even if we could, we stumbled upon an ad that has a complete front engine top fuel dragster, of the modern style for sale. We believe that this is Butch Blair’s car due to the paint scheme and the familiar [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Super Rare Original AMX Flopper With Killer Drag History
Posted in Racing Junk Find February 23, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Today’s world of blobby funny cars is the result of the march of technology and competition over the decades. It is almost impossible for the casual drag racing fan to believe that there were funny cars that actually looked like production vehicles back in the good ol’ days. Among the most rare of these factory [...]
RacingJunk Find: A 1956 Mercury Pro Touring Car That is Neither a 1956 Mercury Nor Pro Touring
Posted in Racing Junk Find February 9, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Far be it from me to question someone’s motivation in the car hobby. After all, I’m the guy into tow trucks, tractors, and other junk of that ilk. That being said, when I see an ad for a “pro touring” 1956 Mercury that turns out to be a virtually stock 1995 Ford Thunderbird with modified [...]
RACING JUNK FIND: A TURN-KEY 1966 MUSTANG ROAD RACER
Posted in Racing Junk Find January 4, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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Hey, if we’re talking about suspensions that make classic American cars carve corners, let’s look at one that has been set up to do just that! This 1966 Mustang has been a competitor and winner in the American Iron Vintage class of NASA road racing. It looks beautiful and has all the right parts and [...]
A Hemi Powered 1932 Austin Bantam Roadster
Posted in Racing Junk Find December 20, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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In my work as a drag racing announcer I spend a fair amount of time talking about Bantam-bodied altereds. Famous Fuel Altereds like the Rat Trap and Pure Hell were based off of the tiny British cars and while they are seen on the strip, when is the last time you saw a Bantam bodied [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Vintage Time Capsule 1932 Ford Race Car
Posted in General News December 8, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Lots of my favorite cars in the history of drag racing came from the Street Roadster class. Now relegated to Competiton Eliminator and lacking virtually all of the character and coolness of the old school versions, Street Roadster ain’t what it used to be. This car is an example of what it used to be. [...]
Racing Junk Find: More Pro Street Mini-Van Love – A Yellow Dodge With a Bowtie Heart
Posted in General News November 30, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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After yesterday’s peek at the street/strip Astro van we thought we had found the pinnacle of mini-van bad-assery. By complete chance a couple of key strokes on RacingJunk.com netted us this find, a 1986 Dodge Caravan done in the classic Pro Street style, retina melting paint and all. The dirty little secret that this van is [...]
Racing Junk Find: A 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe That is All Business on the Strip
Posted in General News November 15, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Back in the days of yore, most manufacturers sold some variation on the “business coupe”. Designed with a minimum of options and luxury but lots of trunk space, these were cars designed to get sales people around with all of their various trinkets and displays, cheaply. Hot rodders grabbed onto them because they were light [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Corner Burning, Strip Scorching, LS Powered Lotus Seven Replica
Posted in General News November 10, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Don’t think for one second that Chad and I have not been privately scheming on a car that we could take on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week and the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. We’ve come up with some really dumb ideas, so when I stumbled upon the perfect car for both events on RacingJunk, [...]
Racing Junk Find: Billy Moffitt’s Bottoms Up Wheelstander
Posted in General News October 27, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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My unnatural love for exhibition drag racing machinery means that I immediately dream and salivate over the possibility of owning something as cool as Billy Moffitt’s “Bottoms Up” dragster wheelstander. The car has been parked for a few years but I saw it run several times when it was active and the thing puts on [...]
Racing Junk Find: An Awesome Early 1980s Off Shore Racing Boat With 3,000hp!
Posted in General News October 19, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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It has been said that a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That statement can be not more truthful than when applied to off shore racing boats, the mammoth boats that super rich guys race. The one we found is a vintage piece from the early 1980s that was [...]
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Racing Junk Find: Billy The Kid Stepp’s Plymouth Arrow Hemi Pro Stocker
Posted in General News October 11, 2011 by Chad Reynolds
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Billy “The Kid” Stepp was an infamous player during the Pro Stock battles of the 1970′s, and although he passed away almost three years ago, his reputation most certainly survives. Known for being a man with a whole lot of attitude, and some questionable business dealings, he was also known for running well and playing [...]
RacingJunk Find: A Big Block Chevy Powered Sand Dune Jumping Jeep
Posted in General News October 5, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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While cruising RacingJunk.com with big block Chevrolet engines on our mind, we came across this wild Jeep built with the sand drags and sand dunes in mind. It also has the honor of the single greatest classified ad photo of all time, as seen below. The Jeep looks like it is in low Earth orbit! [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Super Clean, Turbocharged 1970 Duster
Posted in General News September 28, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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When we first saw this car on RacingJunk we thought it was a clean Duster. Once we learned it had a 440 in it with a single 88mm turbo, we dove straight into the photo gallery. The car would be a dastardly sleeper by hiding the roll bar a little more and making sure no [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Blown 1963 Dodge 440 Wagon!
Posted in General News September 21, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The styling department at Chrysler gets whizzed on a lot for their designs that hit the streets in the early 1960s. Virgil Exner led the unit and gets most of the criticism for the odd looking cars, but even he isn’t fully to blame. Exner designed larger cars that were downsized at the last minute, [...]
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