Racing Junk Find: A 1990s-Tastic Pontiac Grand Am Pro Street Machine
Posted in General News August 4, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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Since the ass-high, side piped, rubber protruding from the fenders look of the 1970s street machine is now back in vogue, the pastel painted Pro Street wonders of the 1990s will be back soon enough. Get ahead of the trend and buy this complete time capsule Grand Am! Yes, the paint scheme may cause family [...]
RacingJunk Find: A Fantastic Survivor 1962 Chevy Bel Air Wagon With 409 Power!
Posted in Racing Junk Find June 29, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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This is one hell of a cool wagon and it is a survivor with a 409ci twist. The body, paint, interior, gauges, etc, are all 100% as delivered 50 years ago from Chevrolet. The transmission, a three speed manual shifted on the column is also a 100% original piece, but the 409ci single four barrel, [...]
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 [...]
RacingJunk Find: An Amazingly Well Done 426 Hemi Powered 1970 Challenger Stocker – Gorgeous Mopar Muscle!
Posted in Racing Junk Find March 15, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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Stock eliminator drag racers largely take a lot of pride in the looks and condition of their cars. Stockers retain so much of the OE interior and exterior pieces that they just ooze muscle car cool. This one is head and shoulders even above that. This car was originally a 383 powered 1970 Challenger, and [...]
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: 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, [...]
RacingJunk Find: A Multi-Purpose Ex-NASCAR Racer That’s Good for the Salt, the Road and the Local Cruise Night!
Posted in General News August 19, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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The idea of having a true multi-use car is appealing to every gearhead. One machine that can carry you to the burger joint, burn tires at the strip, and run stupid MPHs at LSR events is something we all dream about. All indications point to the fact that this ex-NASCAR Monte Carlo is that car! [...]
Racing Junk Find: A Quarter-Million Dollar Horde of Vintage Racing Tires
Posted in General News July 27, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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When Firestone introduced the “gold stripe” racing tire in the late 1960s it basically made everything else used for dry asphalt racing obsolete. The tire was the first real “slick” racing tire designed to withstand the rigors of races like the Indy 500, the Can-Am series, and stock car racing. The “gold stripe” name had [...]
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 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 1989 Ford Old School Show Monster Truck – You Know You Want It!
Posted in General News May 24, 2011 by Brian Lohnes
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As fans of old school monster trucks, we almost fell off of our rickety shop stool when we saw this totally bitchin’ 1989 Ford old school monster for sale on Racing Junk. Rolling on the 48-inch tires that were standard issue before the 66-inch rollers we now know as monster truck tires became popular, it [...]
RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!
Posted in Racing Junk Find July 13, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously has some serious rubber out back and the way it is launching in the wheels up photo [...]
RacingJunk Find: A Mechanically Cool and Aesthetically Bizarre Survivor 1960s Kustom Creation
Posted in Racing Junk Find August 30, 2012 by Brian Lohnes
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We’re not going to lie here. There are very few 1960s custom cars that we “get”. This is not one of them. While this car is a very awesome study in custom car construction of the era and mechanically it is a really bitchin’ piece with a Jag chassis, four carbed Buick nailhead engine, etc, [...]
Day of Freaks: A Blown Keith Black Hemi Powered, Tube Chassis, Tractor Tire Equipped, Mud Truck
Posted in Racing Junk Find February 23, 2013 by Brian Lohnes
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That’s right kids, this week’s Saturday content will be focused around freaks. Some good, some bad, and some just too weird to figure out. This truck falls under the good category. While lots of snobby jerks want to discount the world of mud bogging and mud racing this huge Ford is proof that at the [...]
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. [...]
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