Category Archive: AMC, Craigslist Find
Rough Start: If You Can Find A Cleaner AMC Concord For $2500, Buy It
Normally I avoid Craigslist ads with one badly cropped photo like the plague, but in this case I will make an exception. What we have here is a 1979 AMC Concord coupe, and on the surface it appears...
Project Raven: We Tear Into The Big-Block And Learn That All Is Not Well
After dragging home the $400 400ci Chrysler big-block for our 1983 Imperial, we knew without a doubt that we were in for a big engine build…not the blower-and-power type of big build, but the...
The #11 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo NASCAR And Its Reunion With Builder Junior Johnson
If you point to any car and say that there is any kind of tie to Robert Glenn Johnson, Jr. you can bet that any NASCAR fan is giving you their full and undivided attention. Junior...
Rough Start: This 401-powered AMC Spirit AMX Is Another Slight Stretch Of The Budget Worth Making
If there is one car above all the others that has been eating at the back of my mind lately it is any of the AMC Spirit models. They are a good sized car, they are unique, they are a fairly handsome...
Ebay Find: An AMC Eagle Unlike Any We’ve Seen Before…Who Wants A Beach Buggy?
Here’s all I’m going to say about the ad: Seeing this 1983 AMC Eagle converted into a utility seriously makes me picture the Chevrolet Avalanche, which could be a credit to legendary AMC...
How Many Ways Can You Say “K”? The Entire Rundown Of Chrysler’s Hail Mary Platform
The last time I attempted this stunt, it was based off of one model: the Plymouth Duster, a car that had a special edition for every season of the year, it seemed. This time around I decided to try...
Project Angry Grandpa: Our Crotchety Chrysler Gets New Brakes And New Tortion Struts For His 100,000th Mile!
Ok, in the spirit of being honest, we’re a few hundred off of the magical 100,000 mile mark with our 2006 Chrysler 300C, but it is a good testament to both the care that the car received from...
Project Raven: Things Just Got Serious – Our Imperial Is Getting A Big-Block Swap!
Project Raven, our 1983 Imperial coupe, has had a nice winter slumber. A combination of winter weather, holiday season fun and anger at what was found when the 323ci V8 was disassembled combined to...
Project Angry Grandpa: We Put Grandpa On The Lie Detector (For A Baseline Run)
When the opportunity to take cheap dyno runs presents itself, you take it, and that’s exactly what landed in our lap as we were in Somerset, Kentucky covering the first of this year’s...
BangShift Project Files: An Old Friend Reappears! The CarJunkieTV.com 1972 Nova Has A New Owner!
If you’ve been around since the beginning of this whole show, back when it was known as CarJunkieTV.com, you might remember this 1972 Chevrolet Nova as one of the CJ fleet cars. There was...
This 1961 Valiant Gasser Project Is Quite Literally A Fire Sale And Needs A New Home
Sometimes life kicks you when you’re down and you have to do whatever is needed to get back on your feet. Unfortunately, the owner of this 1961 Plymouth Valiant has found himself in that...
This Craigslist Ad For A Third Gen Camaro Needs To Be Seen To Be Believed
There’s more than enough ways to make fun of third-generation Camaro owners. Mullet-mobiles, redneck Ferrari…there really isn’t anything wrong with third-gens that wasn’t...
Holden Brings Back The “Sandman” Name For The Ute And Wagon As Another Part Of The Farewell Tour
(Photos: GM/Holden) Even though we know the Holden name will exist, most enthusiasts will agree that once the Commodore is axed and the Australian factories close up shop, that Holden will simply be...
