Category Archive: BangShift News, Racing Junk Find
Racing Junk Find: An Awesome Early 1980s Off Shore Racing Boat With 3,000hp!
It has been said that a boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into. That statement can be not more truthful than when applied to off shore racing boats, the mammoth boats that super rich...
Racing Junk Find: Billy The Kid Stepp’s Plymouth Arrow Hemi Pro Stocker
Billy “The Kid” Stepp was an infamous player during the Pro Stock battles of the 1970’s, and although he passed away almost three years ago, his reputation most certainly survives....
RacingJunk Find: A Big Block Chevy Powered Sand Dune Jumping Jeep
While cruising RacingJunk.com with big block Chevrolet engines on our mind, we came across this wild Jeep built with the sand drags and sand dunes in mind. It also has the honor of the single...
Racing Junk Find: A Super Clean, Turbocharged 1970 Duster
When we first saw this car on RacingJunk we thought it was a clean Duster. Once we learned it had a 440 in it with a single 88mm turbo, we dove straight into the photo gallery. The car would be a...
Racing Junk Find: A Blown 1963 Dodge 440 Wagon!
The styling department at Chrysler gets whizzed on a lot for their designs that hit the streets in the early 1960s. Virgil Exner led the unit and gets most of the criticism for the odd looking cars,...
Racing Junk Find: A Slingshot Dragster Sporting A Nitro Slurping Jeep Straight Six
There are lots of unique slingshot dragsters out there but we’re for sure this is the only one in the world that runs down the track with power provided by a nitro drinking Jeep straight six...
RacingJunk Find: A Multi-Purpose Ex-NASCAR Racer That’s Good for the Salt, the Road and the Local Cruise Night!
The idea of having a true multi-use car is appealing to every gearhead. One machine that can carry you to the burger joint, burn tires at the strip, and run stupid MPHs at LSR events is something we...
Racing Junk Find: A Cool 1990 Camaro Door Slammer With Three Flavors of Rat
There are lots of cool and fast doorslammers for sale on Racing Junk, but few of them come with three different nitrous snorting big block Chevy engines of varying displacements. The seller wants...
Racing Junk Find: A 1990s-Tastic Pontiac Grand Am Pro Street Machine
Since the ass-high, side piped, rubber protruding from the fenders look of the 1970s street machine is now back in vogue, the pastel painted Pro Street wonders of the 1990s will be back soon...
Racing Junk Find: A Quarter-Million Dollar Horde of Vintage Racing Tires
When Firestone introduced the “gold stripe” racing tire in the late 1960s it basically made everything else used for dry asphalt racing obsolete. The tire was the first real...
Racing Junk Find: An Odd “Exhibition” PT Cruiser
One man’s exhibition vehicle is another man’s horror show. This PT Cruiser, which was apparently built to fill a hole in the “exhibition and arena show” market for burnout...
Racing Junk Find: A Complete Kart Racing Operation
Recently, a discussion popped up in our forum section about getting into road racing. Lots of great suggestions came up like SCCA IT classes, autocrossing, and taking a street car to open track days....
Racing Junk Find: A Cool, Turn-Key Panoz Road Racer
Sure, there are may ways to skin the proverbial road racing cat. In our opinion, there’s no cooler way than to do it in something with V8 power, a killer chassis, and racy looks. This used...
Racing Junk Find: A Totally Awesome Modified 5-Ton Army Truck!
They had us at 52-inch radials. This giant and customized five ton military truck won the “Current Truck” class at the 2011 Autorama, and we hope it was a clean sweep in the voting. With...