.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

Read more

Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

Read more

Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

Read more

FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

Read more

Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

Read more

2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

Read more

 

Happy 3/15! Today We Look At The Oft Forgotten 315ci Chrysler Poly V8 Engine

We’re pretty sure you were all waiting for 3/18 to come around and that we’d be talking Mopar small blocks at that point. Well, wake up! Rather than wait until the date you all knew was...

Historic Promo Video: Chevrolet’s Promo Movie Selling Ram-Jet Fuel Injection for 1957

What a world it must have been for a gearhead in the late 1950s. So much was happening with aviation technology, and car companies were innovating, inventing, and experimenting with stuff that would...

Our Final Gallery Of Lone Star Throwdown Photos Is Right Here! LST Was Off The Chain, With Trucks Of Every Flavor On Display In Texas.

This is it, our last round of photos from LST! We’ve had a great time sharing all our photos with you from this awesome event. It is one of our favorites all year long and does so much to...

March Meet 2024 Photos: Nitro Funny Cars, Altereds, And More! We’ve Got Nostalgia Drag Racing Photos Right Here.

We’ve got more nitro photos from the March Meet right here, plus a link to more nitro and our gallery of door cars and other sportsman classes below. We’ll have even more nitro over the...

FORGOTTEN Buick Wildcat! Will It RUN and ROADTRIP For Dylan McCool After 21 Years?

Dylan is back at it again, this time with a Buick Wildcat that hasn’t been driven in 21 years. Not only does he want to make it run and drive again, but also road trip the thing home...

Shop Organization: Adam Savage Builds His Dream Hardware Storage System Like Only He Does!

Every Mythbusters fan on the planet knows Adam Savage and knows that he’s a pretty sharp, and incredibly creative, guy who thinks outside the box sometimes. If you aren’t familiar with...

Custom Feature Video: This 1960’s Style Custom Pickup Is Something Special. Plus How It Came Together.

I love unique rides that have some style and this one here has it in spades. It might not be for everyone, but it sure is a bitchin hot rod that looks like it was built right. Unlike most anything...

This Video Featuring The Rebuild Of An Ancient Cadillac 314ci V8 Is The Right Way To Celebrate 3/14

One of the great engines that no one aside from early Cadillac experts really remembers much about is the 314ci V8 the company offered in the ‘teens and twenties. It was the engine that set the...

Watch This Massive TerraGator Wearing A Classic International Pickup Body Attack A Pull!

The TerraGator is one of the cooler pieces of farm machinery out there. Developed in the 1960s and hitting the market in the early 1970s the massive three wheeled machines are known as some of the...

The American Powertrain Thursday Shift: Ripping Lenco Levers With The Front End Up – Like A BOSS!

The only thing cooler than a Lenco transmission is a Lenco transmission being shifted with the front end three feet in the air, right? This video has all of that action and while we’re pretty...

Apollo Video: Check Out This Neat 1960s Footage Of The Grumman Lunar Rover Prototype – Weinermobile In Space?

The last missions of the Apollo program over the course of 1971-1972 are largely forgotten by many people and that’s kind of crummy. Lots of neat stuff was done on those trips to the moon and...

Small Progress: The 1987 Chevy Corsica Was A Step Forward For GM But Not A Game Changer

Back in the late 1980s GM finally got the message that they were on a bad road to nowhere. They embarked on a mission to reorganize the company and redefine the brands and nameplates that made up the...

Muncie Master Class: Watch A Master Transmission Expert Pull A 1967 Muncie 4-Speed Apart And Inspect It

The Precision Transmission channel on YouTube may just be the best thing you’ve never seen before. Why? Because every video is an exploration, an education, and a study in how an expert in a...

This Caterpillar Promotional Film From The 1926 Is Spectacular

We have shown you plenty of videos of old Walter Snow Fighter trucks ramming into snow banks over the years and making inches of progress but this is the first time we have been able to dig up that...