Category Archive: FORD, Project Cars, TECH, Videos
The Mongrel Gets Mini Tubbed: How A Hammer, Dolly, And Simple Roller Come Together
Once again UrchFab shows that simple tools, thought, and some skill will make cool things happen. Making mini tubs for the Mongrel project required a hammer, dolly, and a home made roller. These...
What Makes A Cheap Beater Bad? Well, Bent Pushrods Don’t Help! The End Story On McCool’s Olds Wagon!
If you plonk down less than a grand for a car that supposedly runs and drives, you’re taking a risk and you know it. It’s why race series like King of the Heap, ChumpCar and LeMons draw...
Cheap Racing LUV: The Full Teardown Required For The V8 Swap
What do you need to do to build a $3,000 race car? Well, that’s up to you. You can spend $2500 on nitrous for a very questionable four-wheeled gadget and hope that you make a few...
Round Three With Street Machine’s Dodge Phoenix Project: It Runs And Moves. But Does It Get Street-Legal?
If you went through the painstaking task of grinding down a bag full of trim clip pins just so they fit onto the chrome trim of a 1963 Dodge, chances are good that you would have not only perfected...
Asleep For 33 Years, Flooded, And Now Rescued – Stage One Of Junkyard Digs’ 1968 Pontiac LeMans
It’s heartbreaking to think that this car has been parked in the same spot for nearly as long as I’ve been alive and breathing on this planet. Right about the time I was celebrating my...
An SRT-4 Powered MG Midget? Yeah, We’re About That! Check Out The Work Needed To Make This Happen!
I’m often curious about the true appeal of British roadsters. Yeah, they’re cute and all, but two-digit horsepower ratings on spindly little tires does not equate a fun time in my eyes....
From Death To Demonic: This Chrysler 300C Went From An Insurance Total To A Six-Speed Ripper!
A couple of days ago I found video of a ProCharged Chrysler 300C with a manual trans swap that had been built to race in Australia. The words “manual swap” attached to “Chrysler...
The Cadillac Limo: The King Of The Heap Adventure – Part Titanic, Part Exxon Valdez…
(Photos: Author, Mr. Gasket, Shamrock Chop Shop) Well, that didn’t quite go to plan. And I’m pretty sure I know why. I had to go and say nice things about the 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood...
Introducing Project Evil Orchid: Scott Liggett’s 1965 Impala Has A Story To Tell
(Words and Photos by Scott Liggett) The Impala was one of the first vehicles to hit the forum’s Project Vehicle pages way back in 2007 when this website was known as CarJunkieTV. Before that,...
The Cadillac Limo: The Final Look At It’s Disgraceful Magnificence Before It Hits The Track!
Well, it’s been a minute since you’ve heard anything about the 1980 Cadillac Fleetwood Formal that I bought in the dead of night at the beginning of the year, and for good reason: not too...
BangShift Project Files: A Supercharged BMW-Powered T-bucket On Spray!
Earlier this year, we featured a project BMW 540i that Forum member “Mykk” was building as part of our $5,000 Challenge. Over the scope of that layout was a gem that was in the works for...
Project Mongrel Update: The Mazda-Meets-Ford Project Is Moving Along At A Quick Pace!
Chad has been obsessed over this 1959 Ford 100E that is known as “The Mongrel”. I have to be honest, I haven’t been paying that much attention to the build. If you are unfamiliar...
Project Raven Imperial: IT’S ALIVE! The 367ci Small Block Wakes Up…Half A County.
Sunday morning in the fields outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky…frost melting back into dew, a deer cautiously grazing near a fencerow, birds that are trying to make last-minute efforts to...
