Category Archive: Racing Junk Find
RacingJunk Find: A Fantastic Survivor 1962 Chevy Bel Air Wagon With 409 Power!
This is one hell of a cool wagon and it is a survivor with a 409ci twist. The body, paint, interior, gauges, etc, are all 100% as delivered 50 years ago from Chevrolet. The transmission, a three...
Racing Junk Find: A 1961 Catalina Drag Car With a Twin Turbo Poncho Mill Under the Hood!
First, an admission. When we saw this ad on RacingJunk for the first time we kept it to ourselves and did our damnedest to sell a non-vital organ for the asking price of the car, which is $42,000...
Racing Junk Find(s): A Pair of Outlaw Garden Pulling Tractors That We Totally Want
Laugh if you want, but owning a modified garden tractor that is powered by either four cylinder Honda motorcycle engine or two stroke snowmobile engine is kind of on our bucket list. We were looking...
RacingJunk Find: A Laid Out 1968 Impala Wagon That We Want Badly!
We love wagons and we love big cars. Combine the two things and you’ve got a recipe for pure mechanical magic, which this 1968 Impala wagon is. Rolling around on some pretty big hoops and...
Racing Junk Find: A Complete, Turn Key, Modern Front Motor Top Fuel Car
While trolling around RacingJunk.com and oogling stuff we cannot afford and have no business owning even if we could, we stumbled upon an ad that has a complete front engine top fuel dragster, of the...
Racing Junk Find: A Super Rare Original AMX Flopper With Killer Drag History
Today’s world of blobby funny cars is the result of the march of technology and competition over the decades. It is almost impossible for the casual drag racing fan to believe that there were...
RacingJunk Find: A 1956 Mercury Pro Touring Car That is Neither a 1956 Mercury Nor Pro Touring
Far be it from me to question someone’s motivation in the car hobby. After all, I’m the guy into tow trucks, tractors, and other junk of that ilk. That being said, when I see an ad for a...
RACING JUNK FIND: A TURN-KEY 1966 MUSTANG ROAD RACER
Hey, if we’re talking about suspensions that make classic American cars carve corners, let’s look at one that has been set up to do just that! This 1966 Mustang has been a competitor and...
A Hemi Powered 1932 Austin Bantam Roadster
In my work as a drag racing announcer I spend a fair amount of time talking about Bantam-bodied altereds. Famous Fuel Altereds like the Rat Trap and Pure Hell were based off of the tiny British cars...
Racing Junk Find: A Vintage Time Capsule 1932 Ford Race Car
Lots of my favorite cars in the history of drag racing came from the Street Roadster class. Now relegated to Competiton Eliminator and lacking virtually all of the character and coolness of the old...
Racing Junk Find: More Pro Street Mini-Van Love – A Yellow Dodge With a Bowtie Heart
After yesterday’s peek at the street/strip Astro van we thought we had found the pinnacle of mini-van bad-assery. By complete chance a couple of key strokes on RacingJunk.com netted us...
Racing Junk Find: A 1950 Plymouth Business Coupe That is All Business on the Strip
Back in the days of yore, most manufacturers sold some variation on the “business coupe”. Designed with a minimum of options and luxury but lots of trunk space, these were cars designed...
Racing Junk Find: A Corner Burning, Strip Scorching, LS Powered Lotus Seven Replica
Don’t think for one second that Chad and I have not been privately scheming on a car that we could take on Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week and the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational....
Racing Junk Find: Billy Moffitt’s Bottoms Up Wheelstander
My unnatural love for exhibition drag racing machinery means that I immediately dream and salivate over the possibility of owning something as cool as Billy Moffitt’s “Bottoms Up”...