Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Racing Junk Find, Videos
Crash Video: A Mud Bog Jeep Ends Up in the Pond
Sep 10, 2013Brian Lohnes5
Racing high performance mud trucks ain’t easy. The task gets even harder when the dude who designed the mud pit apparently wanted to kill as many of the competitors as possible due to the...
RacingJunk Find: A Blown, Pro Street 1978 AMC Pacer X That We Put On Our DO WANT List!
Apr 04, 2013Brian Lohnes2
If you are someone looking for attention, this is the way to get it. The 1978 AMC Pacer shown below and in even more detail after you hit the link to the RacingJunk ad is a pretty unique machine....
Racing Junk Find: A Road Racing M3 Packing A FAST And Holley Equipped Stroker LS6 Engine! Do Want!
Mar 21, 2013Brian Lohnes2
We’re not going to lie, BMW M3s are always sitting somewhere on our “want” list. Anyone who wants to make claims as to how the BMW M3 isn’t awesome to drive can suck it,...
RacingJunk Find: An Amazingly Well Done 426 Hemi Powered 1970 Challenger Stocker – Gorgeous Mopar Muscle!
Mar 15, 2013Brian Lohnes6
Stock eliminator drag racers largely take a lot of pride in the looks and condition of their cars. Stockers retain so much of the OE interior and exterior pieces that they just ooze muscle car cool....
Day of Freaks: A Blown Keith Black Hemi Powered, Tube Chassis, Tractor Tire Equipped, Mud Truck
Feb 23, 2013Brian Lohnes3
That’s right kids, this week’s Saturday content will be focused around freaks. Some good, some bad, and some just too weird to figure out. This truck falls under the good category. While...
RacingJunk Find: Bobby Allison’s 1980 IROC Championship Winning Camaro – When Stock Cars Were Cool!
Dec 31, 2012Brian Lohnes1
For many years the IROC (International Race of Champion) Series was a big deal to both racers and fans. Drivers from all different disciplines of racing were pitted against one another in identically...
RacingJunk Find: The Late Ron Hammel’s 8,000hp Capable Dyno – One Bad Ass Piece of Living Hot Rodding History!
Oct 26, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Ron Hammel of 10,000RPM Dyno fame passed away in 2012. Hammel was a pioneer in the hot rod and drag racing world. His 10,oooRPM Speed Equipment company was the first outfit to sell nitrous kits to...
Racing Junk Find: BangShift Needs A Monster Truck!
Sep 11, 2012Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Racing Junk Find: BangShift Needs A Monster Truck!
We want a Monster Truck bad. Really bad. I love them. I want to drive one. I want to jump one and do slap wheelies and all that. I want to yell and scream when I get out of it after winning freestyle...
RacingJunk Find: A Mechanically Cool and Aesthetically Bizarre Survivor 1960s Kustom Creation
Aug 30, 2012Brian Lohnes3
We’re not going to lie here. There are very few 1960s custom cars that we “get”. This is not one of them. While this car is a very awesome study in custom car construction of the...
RacingJunk Find The Mother Load of 1930s Vintage Chevy/GM Steel – Traditional Rodder’s Dream World
Aug 16, 2012Brian Lohnes1
If you own a hot rod shop that specializes in old school builds, do we have a deal for you! There is a guy in Billings, Montana selling the most amazing collection of stock, rusty, patina ridden,...
Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass, Street Legal, Chevy Desert Pre-Runner Truck With Decorated Baja History
Aug 09, 2012Brian Lohnes2
In an earlier life, the truck you are looking at won the 1987 SCORE Baja 500. Back then it was run as a bruising Class 8 truck and was the featured star of ABC’s coverage of the 1987 Baja 1,000...
Racing Junk Find: A Rick Jones Built 1968 Barracuda With Modern Pro Stock Power!
Jul 25, 2012Brian Lohnes2
Well this is full on bad-assery to the highest order here! A classic 1968 Barracuda stuffed with a 500ci modern Pro Stock engine and all kinds of full boogie chassis work from Rick Jones Race Cars in...
RacingJunk Find: A Turbine Powered 1983 Datsun 280zx
Jul 18, 2012Brian Lohnes1
Historically, the only Datsun Z-cars we have cars about were the one jammed full of snotty small block or rumbling big block engines. We can now add another variation to that theme with the finding...
RacingJunk Find: A 1965 Coronet Packing A Naturally Aspirated Keith Black Hemi!
Jul 13, 2012Brian Lohnes3
When we saw this 1965 Coronet drag car for sale on RacingJunk it struck us as a cool and very clean nod to the cars that terrorized drag strips in the middle 1960s with modern touches. It obviously...