.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
The Anatomy of a Win: Ultimate Street Cars attack Willow Springs and We’ve Got Photos and Results Right Here!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley) The third stop of the 2026 season of OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car series took competitors to their first West coast event at historic Willow Springs...

Read more

RJ Fab Tech Talk: Custom Headers Explained – Rob Lindsay Goes Over Tips, Tricks, And Proven Methods For Custom Header Fabrication.

You may not have heard of RJ Fab, but you’ve probably seen something they have built. When Rob Lindsay started RJ Fab a few decades ago I doubt he thought he’d build a brand that covered...

Read more

The Last LIL GANGSTA standing get’s $30,000 Cash! – Biggest Payout EVER! Here Is Street Car Bragging Rights at Rockingham Dragway

Lil Gangstas just keeps on keeping on, and at Street Car Bragging Rights at Rockingham Dragway they not only put on a hell of a show, but also put up the biggest payout in LG history at $30,000 for...

Read more

Here are 16 of the COOLEST GASSER Combinations from the Southeast Gassers Association. It’s the 1960s All Over Again!

Every Southeast Gassers Association race is a flashback to the 1960’s, which is why everyone loves going to their races so much. These races are all about the showmanship and the fun and...

Read more

Can You Really Paint A Car For Less Than $250 And Make It Look Halfway Decent? Tony Says, Yes… Err Maybe. Watch.

Cheap car and truck paint jobs have always been popular, whether in DIY stories in magazines, on the internet, or with companies like Earl Sheib and Maaco. Hell, Earl Sheib would paint any car for...

Read more

Taking Slow Junk Off The Jumps At The Ramp Contest at Hudson Speedway Memorial Day Thrill Show 2026

Going fast in slow cars, thrashing on junk, and jumping things that shouldn’t be jumped are always a good time and the folks at Hudson Speedway sure know it. For their Memorial Day Thrill Show...

Read more

 

Scrapple, The Holiday Roast Edition! Here’s What’s Worth Flame-Broiling For The End Of The Season!

This isn’t a “best of” deal for the festivities…no, no…that would undermine the idea behind Scrapple in the first place: finding the most random and barely-worthy...

Young New Hampshire Man Dead, Maine Man Injured When Tire Explodes – Techs, Please Be Safe Out There

The images you see both above and below depict a heavy duty tire exploding inside an inflation safety cage. The steel bars of that cage are deflecting because of the massive forces involved. Now...

All-Included Racing: The Calder Park Street Drags Event, Where Everything From A Twin-Turbo Shelby Mustang To A Wicked Toyota Starlet Come Out To Play!

Burnout cars, utes, Holdens and Falcons. You would think that encompasses all of Australia’s motoring scene. It does capture a side of it, yes, but only one side. Australia’s location...

NitroArtVideo Released Their “Wild Rides” Of 2015 – Carnage, Great Saves, Legendary Flight

We respect lunatics that hustle like we do during the racing season at Kevin Maurer at NitroArtVideo is one of those guys. This dude is at dozens of racing events a year all across the southern part...

Rough Start: Stretching The Budget A Bit, But Where Else Are You Going To Find A Convertible Ford Crown Victoria?

If we ever stretch past the budget in one of our Rough Start features, it is because we feel that the car is close enough to the spirit of the budget to warrant a look, and that’s where we find...

eBay Find: Is This The First Ford Dump Truck Ever Equipped With A Hydraulic Bed? 1929 Ford Model AA

This dusty old 1929 Ford Model AA truck looks like lots of other old trucks that have been dragged out of bars and dark corners over the years but there’s a massive difference with this one....

Call To Action: Does Anyone Know Whose Camaro and Trailer This Is?

Thieves suck, period. This year we’ve heard lots about someone’s car being stolen, or someone’s shop being broken into, and honestly it turns our stomach. We know how much time,...

Watch As The Crew Of An SR-71 Blackbird Prepare To Launch Out For Flight – It Was A Lot Of Work To Put One Of These Supersonic Marvels Into The Air!

It has been seventeen years since the last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” spy plane, and fifty-one years have passed since the spy plane first flew. Nothing since has touched...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: The Christmas Memorandum – Before You Start Decking Holly, Jingling Bells, And Slamming Eggnog, Take A Moment And Read This

ATTENTION TO EMPLOYEES:  Greetings, minions. We have made it to the end of the year…which means that if you haven’t got the Christmas music going, you might want to get on it as soon as...

MORE: UPCG

Is This Operating W-32 Engine The Greatest Miniature Of All Time? Construction And “Run” Video –

47cc displacement, 2,500 work hours, 850 pieces, and 650 screws. That is what Motores Patelo put int constructing this amazing W-32 engine that we think could be the greatest miniature ever built....

How Driveshaft’s Are Built At Mark Williams Enterprises. Way Cool Stuff

Driveshafts can cause A LOT of problems if they are not properly spec’d and not built correctly. Brian has seen first hand what a stock shaft will do if you just spin it too fast, even with...

MORE: DRIVETRAIN

A Hovering 1984 Camaro For Sale: Harrier Jet Meets Camaro! We Contact The Seller!

WTF? Yeah, that’s what we said when we got the email tip from BangShifter Mark Brown. The email conversation went something like this… Mark – ” Here’s one for you...

Don Schumacher Racing Didn’t Buy Them All! The New TBS500 Top Fuel Billet Intake Is Awesome!

Looking at a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car, one might think that ANY intake manifold would work with that much blower on top. And to some extent that’s correct. Stuff air and fuel through it...

Tis The Season: Take A Look Back On The History Of The Christmas Tree!

For the entire time I’ve been breathing on this earth, drag races…well, professional drag races on an actual dragstrip, anyways…have been started with the electronic system and...