.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, OTHER, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Vice Grip Garage Is Spray Painting A Grand National! Buick Finally Gets Bumper Fillers and Touch Ups! Will It Still Be The Bland National When Done?

Vice Grip Garage’s “Bland National” is one of the more closely followed projects that Derek has going on, as it is one of the rarer machines in his fleet. But this thing looks like...

Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: The 1971 GMC Cabover Ramp Truck Got Some Chassis Paint And It’s Going Back Together! Weekend Thrash Part 3

Here we go with Day 3 of the weekend thrash. In the first two days they did a ton of welding to finish up so much of this thing and then started taking it apart, prepping it for paint, and finally...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Cutting Up And Bodyworking The Sectioned Hood For Better Gaps

Brent is a glutton for punishment, as he’s been thrashing hard on the GMC Roadster and if things aren’t quite good enough, he does them again. And when you are building a full custom like...

First Truck, First LS Swap, And More: Newbern’s Kid Got A C10 And It Is Getting A New Engine AND Some Aces Fuel Injection

A kid’s first truck is a pretty special thing, and it’s awesome that Newbern’s son has got himself a project. This one is a 1969 C10 and it needs some love for sure, but they are...

Saving A Barn Find From The Scrapper! Rescuing A FREE 1961 Plymouth Wagon That’s Been Sitting For Years With The Iron Trap Gang

The Iron Trap boys are back at it, this time with a car that is 20 plus years newer than their norm! This one has a cool story and involves them saving a pretty rad 1961 Plymouth Wagon that we know a...

Barn Find 1951 Ford F-1 Pickup Truck! Pulling It Out Of Hibernation And Moving It To The Yard So Someone Can Save It!

We’re always showing Chad Ehrlich’s latest inventory at the wrecking yard, but we’re rarely able to show you where he’s found them and how they looked before he dropped them...

Puddin’s Fab Shop 1930 Model A Project Update: 1930 Ford HOT ROD Progress! FUEL SYSTEM, LINKAGES, AND MORE!!!!!

Puddin is back at it, trying to get the Model A done enough to hit a car show, and that means a ton of stuff has to happen. It seems like this cool Model A project keeps getting closer and closer but...

The Charger, Part 10: Power Tour Killed The 360. But Fate Stepped In…

June 11th, 2024. That’s the day that the 360 in the ’76 Charger failed. You could’ve boiled an egg on my head, I was so pissed off. I had been thrashing on the car for half a year...

Bagged BIG BLOCK Square Body! – Will It RUN AND DRIVE 700 Miles Home To Vice Grip Garage While Pulling A Popup Camper?

I can’t even imagine how many cars and trucks Derek at Vice Grip Garage has bought over the past year, but it has to be a lot. I mean a lot a lot. After all, he’s trying to drive a truck...

Vice Grip Garage Garbage Camaro Build: Kevin Tetz Is Giving It A Nose Job, And Fixing LOTS Of Damage

The Garbage Camaro is back. It’s fixable, but man is it going to take some work. In this episode Kevin is doing a nose job on it and starting in on lots of other repairs. Not long ago, Kevin...

SACRILEGE! FINNEGAN IS RIPPING OUT THE STRAIGHT AXLE AND SWITCHING BLASPHEMI TO A-ARMS!

Holy Crap! What the hell is he thinking? Finnegan has decided that the solid front axle in Blasphemi, while great for the gasser looks he’s after, are not doing it from a handling perspective....

Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: DAY-1 Of THRASH Weekend – Welding, Wrenching, and TEAR DOWN On The 1971 GMC Cabover Ramp Truck!

It’s time for even more welding, because that is an overarching theme on this build, but this time it’s for a three day thrash weekend where tons of Karl’s buddies are coming over to help...

Road Trip! Freiburger Buys A Bitchin Ford Wagon For $5,000 But It’s 1,800 Miles Away! ABANDONED PLACES and Americana On The Road.

For Freiburger, old haggard cars and trucks are like cute rescue puppies, you just can’t resist them. He’s got all kinds of projects, which he talked about in the last video. But this one...

Chopping A 1932 Ford Roadster Windshield: Iron Trap’s 1932 Ford “Ruined Roadster” Gets Chopped The Perfect Amount

It’s not easy chopping the top on a car, with all the metal shaping required, door and window frames, etc. So one might think that chopping the top on a roadster would be pretty darn easy. I...