.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Formula E(h)? — Does This Suck? We’re On The Fence So You Tell US!

  I’m going to describe a racing series: Racing held on city circuits in 9 different countries, including 2 races in the United States – 1800 pounds of carbon fiber and aluminum...

eBay Find Of The Decade: A Custom Built 2004 C5500 TopKick GMC Van!

When Dave “Matty” Matyjasik send me a note telling me to check something out on eBay I was a little nervous. The Matty Brothers are the dudes that run the green “Timb Bomb”...

Fuel Altered Video: Action From Palmdale In The Mid-1980s With Fire Burnouts and Bonus Rare 1960s Footage!

We stumbled upon this gem of a video yesterday while trolling for some cool AA/FA footage. Like everyone else, we have been tingling at the possibilities surrounding the rumored fuel altered field at...

SEMA 2013: The Espresso Veloce V8 Is An Awesome And Insanely Expensive Espresso Maker

I didn’t go looking for this thing and even when I found it I was so short on time I could only blast a few cursory photos and continue my sprint around the 2013 SEMA show firing my camera in a...

SEMA 2013 Video: Conical Valvesprings: Cones Aren’t Just For Icecream Anymore.

If you’ve studied high performance engines you know that there are some things like more compression, a bigger cam, and boost that build power. As you get deeper into these engines you learn...

Ride Atop The Blown, Nitro Burning Hemi Powered 911 Roadster As It Runs 253 MPH On DIRT At El Mirage

We’re back with more awesome video from on top of the famed 911 blown fuel roadster. This is the car we took you for a ride on at Bonneville where it went 295mph on the salt with its 5,000hp...

Fleming’s Pumpkin Run: Muscle Cars, Hot Rods, Big Rigs, More!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’ve taken you through the junkyard at the 2013 Fleming’s Pumpkin Run and now it is time to take you onto the show field where the most eclectic mix of...

Insane In-Car Video: Watch A Mustang Pull A Skybox Wheelie and Smash Down On Two Wheels!

With tire and track traction technology these days, it seems to be getting more and more common for race cars like this Mustang featured in the clip below to take flight on the hit of the throttle....

This In-Car Wreckage Video Is Wild and Scary – Driver OK, But This Was A Bad Ride!

Jon Baker has the honor of sharing a name with one of television’s most famous fake police officers, but in the other direction he recently suffered a very nasty wreck in his x275 Mustang at a...

Drag Gallery: 411 Dragway’s $5,000 To Win Bracket Bash!

(Photos by Alana Garner) – 411 Dragway in Seymour, Tennessee was staring down the barrel of a figurative gun earlier this year. It appeared that the track was going to be bulldozed and its...

Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2013: More Great Junkyard Shots And Some Show Vehicles!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) – The first weekend of November is one I look forward to all year. That is the weekend of the Pumpkin Run held at Flemings Auto Parts in Egg Harbor Township,...

SEMA PowerShift LIVE VIDEO: Big Street Car Super Nationals News, We Drive A 950 Horse ZL1, And Much More.

Our SEMA Edition of PowerShift, our weekly live motorsports and hot rodding show, is one you have to watch. Starting off with our most famous guest, Lingenfelter’s Mike Copeland, and rounding...

2013 NHRA World Finals Coverage: Fast Times and Series Champions at Pomona Raceway

(Words by Darr Hawthorne) – The SoCal weather was great and the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series faithful showed up in droves to watch tight racing and crown event and series champions in...

SEMA 2013 Video: FAST’s New XFI Sportsman EFI System Bridges The Gap Between Plug ‘n Play Systems and Hardcore Race Systems

Not all hot rodders live on one end of the spectrum or another. There are the cruiser street guys and there are the full-tilt, hard-core, bad to the bone racers guys but there is a vast middle ground...