.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
Big Sky Race Week Video from the BangShift Billy crew. Will Ultra High Temps Cause Trouble For Competitiors?

There has been a lot of weird weather in the last 12 months and it doesn’t seem to be getting any less crazy. With heat waves and storm fronts moving all over the country, you are seeing areas...

Read more

Buckeye Skips 2026 Drag and Drive Photos Continue! Here’s Our First Day 2 Racing Gallery from Darana Dragway 42 in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We’ve got Buckeye Skip’s drag and drive photos right here! We already shared photos from Day #1’s checkpoints and racing, but now it is time for Day #2...

Read more

The World’s Largest All Ford Show And Swap Meet! Swap Meet And Car Show Photos From The Carlisle All Ford Nationals In Central Pennsylvania

Here’s our second gallery of photos from Carlisle, but if you missed the previous photos you can find them all at the link below. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The world’s largest...

Read more

More FJ40 Custom Fabrication! This Beast Gets An ECM Install, Branik Links, Custom Cooler Mounts, and A Stereo Install.

When you start making real headway on a project the jobs get smaller and smaller, but no less significant. Shannon and Jess are back at it on the cool FJ40 project and that means many small things...

Read more

This Is The Ultimate Call Out Challenge! We’re Talking 3,000 Horsepower Diesel Trucks Battling It Out For Bragging Rights And More!

The 2026 Ultimate Callout Challenge was epic. The meanest, nastiest, and most no-holds barred diesel trucks in the country  gathered in Indy to do battle on the dyno rollers, on the drag strip, and...

Read more

Video: The West Coast’s Largest All Ford Truck Show – The F100 Western Nationals 2026 Coverage Starts Here

We figured that if we were going to start sharing our Carlisle Ford Nationals photo coverage today, which is the largest all Ford show in the world, we might as well share the largest classic Ford...

Read more

 

Big Noise, Big Power: Watch The Bruder Brothers Make Hub Dyno Pulls With Their ProCharger Equipped X275 Mustang

This video is awesome. It is awesome because one of the most iconic cars in the history of small tire drag racing is featured. It is awesome because an absolutely roaring ProCharged small block Ford...

Hot Rod Hullabaloo Show Coverage: Trucks Take Center Stage At This Event – Loads Of Rigs To See Here

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – When it comes to variety of manufacturers in trucks let’s just say the FoMoCo and Dodge peoples let us down.  I expect better next year.  One highlight...

More Power Available for Volkswagen Beetles I, II and III – Introducing the MAHLE Motorsport 94mm PowerPak Piston Kit

The world of VW performance is amazing in the fact that air-cooled enthusiasts continue to find more and better ways to make their horsepower. From drag racing to road racing to land speed racing,...

Legend Video: Watch The Iconic 554 Fuel Coupe Make A Wild, Tire Smoking Blast At Fremont!

One of the neat things about nostalgia drag racing is that it actually has a weird middle layer of its history. You have the initial events that spawned the love for “looking back”, you...

Never Too Old: These Grandmothers Go For A Fun Ride In A Lamborghini!

As long as there is a breath left in your body, you should strive to enjoy everything that life has to offer. That’s just a fundamental truth, but you hear it all the time about how someone is...

Morning Symphony: A 428 Ford Cobra Going Through The Gears At Byron

When it comes to the sound of musclecars, you can tell one noise from the other pretty easily once you’re used to the sounds. You know that AMC mills tend to be snottier on the rise up. You...

Officer Modification: 1974 Plymouth Fury Ex-Cop With A Stroker Big-Block!

For decades, a Chrysler-built cop car was something to fear. Talk about Mopar’s sins all you want, but the moment “440 powered cruiser” comes out of somebody’s mouth,...

BangShift Project Files: We Check In On The Turbo Lincoln Mark VII Build!

The three of us have our deals. Chad’s got a list of projects that he works on quietly and brings out when he feels like it. I’ve got my home for wayward, dirt-cheap, “might run...

The 100 Horsepower Power Wheels Jeep: Shock Tuning And More Frame Structure Fabrication

We want this Jeep to run so badly. We want to see this little four-wheel-drive testament to engineering gone insane to be functional, to drift corners with one front wheel hiked in the air while...

MORE: TECH, Videos

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: That Looks Like Bad Luck To Us!

Have you had a productive week? I hope so. BangShift Mid-West is under repairs, which means that yours truly has been swinging a sledgehammer at a concrete slab that was my front porch for two days...

Wild: The $1.3-Million Koenigsegg Agera Has A 600hp 3-Banger Engine And 1,100hp Of Electrical Backup

(Words by Tom Lohnes – Photos by the manufacturer) – There’s a car for everything. If you need a cheap, fast, fun to drive car, there’s a Subaru WRX. If you need a fast sedan then...

What’s The Worst Carnage You’ve Ever Experienced In Your Hot Rod Or Race Car? Send Us Photos!!!

When my buddy Brandon Weber sent me this photo yesterday of the inside of the 8.8″ Ford rear axle in his ultra bitchin turbo LS powered Mustang, I cringed. He knew he broke it at the CA...

Watch Bryce Menzies Destroy The Desert During King Of The Hammers In His Bitchin Trophy Truck

Ultra 4 rigs are some of the most insane things to watch bombing across the desert, because lots of what they are about just don’t seem to compute for the average off road racing fan. Watching...

March Meet 2020 Video Highlights Are Right Here! Nostalgia Drag Racing’s Biggest Event

We’ve had hundreds of inquiries into whether or not we are live streaming the 2020 March Meet, and tell everyone we wish we were. Luckily for those of us who can’t be there, the gang at...