.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Rough Start: An Unmolested Chevrolet Monza? Where Would You Start?

Chevrolet Monzas come in three flavors: drag car, road race car, and pretty much dead car. On the street, they might as well be extinct. Between a short five-year run, it’s place as a duplicate...

The $400 Score: Here’s How Easy It Is To Get Started With A Project Car!

I love a good story about a car returning to life and I love a good cheap-car find story, so naturally I was a sucker for this one. It doesn’t hurt that I almost bought a virtually identical...

The Plain Package: This 1971 Ford Mustang 429 SCJ Was Optioned To Hurt Feelings!

Most of the 1971 Mustangs with the 429 Super Cobra Jet engine were Mach 1 package-equipped vehicles. It made sense…the Mustang had entered it’s “Fat Elvis” stage and between...

I’m Fairly Certain Most People Will Never Utter The Words “Cleetus T-Boned Me”

And Kyle Loftis at 1320 Video isn’t “Most People”. Of course Cleetus McFarland’s crazy Demo Drags entry wasn’t normal either. With two rear axles and a length more akin...

Ever Wonder How Anodizing Works? Watch This To Learn How To Do It At Home!

We aren’t kidding, this video shows you how to anodize your own parts at home and the thing is it doesn’t really require any crazy special equipment! I have to say, as a child of the...

Video: NHRA Southern Nationals Professional Qualifying Video Highlights

NHRA is visiting the Peach State this weekend as the Mello Yello Drag Racing Season hits Atlanta Dragway for the Southern Nationals. Professional classes have been chomping at the bit to get a shot...

More Holley LSFest West Photos For You To Check Out From Day One

We know we gave you are first gallery this morning, but we’re feeling generous and decided we should give you even more photos to take a look at today. We’ll load more in the system, to...

More FM3 Road Trip Photo Coverage Is Coming Your Way!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) The FM3 RoadTrip: Cars and Cones is a really bitchin event and we’re so thrilled to have been a part of it again this year. We’re lucky as hell to have driven...

But “Safety Vehicle”! This 1975 Bricklin SV-1 Is One Angry Canadian Import!

By all accounts, Malcom Bricklin’s self-named car company was an abysmal failure. He pissed off Canadians…do you know just how bad you have to screw up before the Canadians are done with...

Take A Look At This Extreme Welding Table Build. You’ll Dig It.

We have a problem. An addiction actually. We are addicted to cool welding tables. We want to build lots of them, we can’t help but watch other people build them, and every time we see a new one...

Classic YouTube: A Brutal Street Stock Flip At Thunderhill Raceway In Tennessee

Ah, Street Stock…where many a 1970s and 1980s car have gone to live the life that fits somewhere between that of a NASCAR stocker and a gladiator. It’s budget racing if you want to get...

Unhinged: The Interest In The Cars Of The Eighties And A Lincoln Continental Mark VI

I may be the champion for cars from the 1970s and 1980s around here, but if you look at collector car trends, interest is growing in the cast-offs, the post-musclecar sleds that somehow survived...

A Restomod, A Ute And A Mopar: This CL Valiant Ute Is A Dream Concept Come True!

Chad thinks that within a couple of years, that he’ll have me in a “traditional” Mopar. I think that means that he believes that he’ll find a way that I’ll suddenly fall...