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Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Photo Coverage: Featuring Custom Trucks And Volkswagens

We’re back with another gallery and this time we’ve got a few more trucks, but we’ve also got a cool batch of vintage Volkswagens. This is why people love Goodguys shows because you...

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The Most Bad Ass Barn Finds Ever? 39 Cars, In Three Barns, And ALL Of Them Are 1968 & 1969 Z28 And SS Camaros, Plus 1970 Chevelle SS 396 & 454 Cars & Parts

My dad bought a 1968 Z28 Camaro brand new and still has it. So I’ve lived my whole life with a real first gen Z28 and it’s why I have my 1969 Camaro convertible. I’m a Camaro guy,...

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OPTIMA’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car In The Big Easy: Ultimate Street Cars Get To The Points!

(Words by Jim McIlvaine)  If you don’t win your class invitation in OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car, presented by Advance Auto Parts, your best route to an invitation to the...

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TX2K23 Day 5: Mustang TAKES FLIGHT, Last TX2K in Houston

Here’s more awesome action from TX2K23! So here is Day 5, the final day of the final TX2K in Houston, and it’s full of all kinds of excitement, from incredible performances to big crashes. It’s...

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Goodguys Spring Lone Star Nationals Photo Coverage: Trucks, Trucks, Trucks, And More Trucks!

We’re back with another gallery, and this one is almost all trucks! This is why people love Goodguys shows because you can go and see an incredible number of cars and trucks of all kinds all in...

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STOLEN! HELP US FIND THE HOTCHKIS CHALLENGER, TOW RIG, AND TRAILER!!!

This just hit social media yesterday From the Hotchkis Facebook Page: Share this post! We need your help! This morning our entire Truck and trailer rig was stolen containing our Hotchkis T/A...

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The Top 11 Things We Never Thought We’d Hear Ourselves Say

Times have changed. We have changed. Our families have grown. Standing back and looking at the state of the hobby and of our near homelessness and of our shift to the Web, we had to sum it all up in...

Moran: Quickest and Fastest in the World With Turbos!

For years we’ve been wondering and waiting for someone, anyone, to figure out how to properly harness the power of a turbocharged Pro Mod and throw some numbers up. Andy Jensen has been doing...

The New Weld Wheels

This is kind of old news after the buzz got around at the SEMA show, but we were just copied on the official press release so we thought we’d share with you that Weld Racing has been purchased...

eBay Pick of the Week: The F-Troop Gasser

As radical and cool and historic as this is, I don’t think I’d throw down $425,000 for this even if I had Leno kinda money. It’s the F-Troop Willys Gasser, and its story is well...

Monday Time Killer: Horsepower Guesser

Monday morning universally sucks unless you are at the US Nationals and are still racing. Other than that, it blows. Luckily, we here at FreiburgersJunkyard.com will provide you with something to...

Barnstormin’: In Praise of Open Trailers

Gale Banks Display at the Wally Parks

The photo shows just a few of the 34 engines that were headed out of Banks Engineering last week, on the way to the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California, for this week’s...

New Resto Decals for Garlits Tachs

This is so cool! Anyone remember the Don Garlits signature tachs by Sun? They were in full Captain America trim in red, white, and blue. They’ve been going for big bucks on eBay for the past...

62 Photos from Today’s Long Beach Swap Meet

After clearing 10,000 square feet of junk out of our old 7,000-square-foot shop, we had lots of stuff to get rid of. Combine that with our need for food money and it was obvious that we had to go...

Lunati Pistons for Cheap

Interestingly, Lunati is now owned by (among others) Ron Coleman of Comp Cams. The two companies share an owner and one PR employee, and are being run as competitors. However, before all of that ever...

Roadside Find: ’42 Brew Wagon

While on an afternoon trip to the local home improvement mega-store we nearly drove off the road when we spotted this awesome ’42 Chevy truck parked outside a little local watering hole. We can...

CraigsList Deal of the Week: Elcomino

Here’s another one of the recurring features you’ll find at FreiburgersJunkyard.com: the CraigsList Deal of the Week. It was supposed to go live first thing this morning with similar...

Friday Excuse to go Home Early and Drink: The Seemingly Imminent Death of Pontiac

This weekly feature will give you plenty of reason to click the shut-down button on your work computer and drain a few frosties stat. It’s going to be bad news people–deal. Automotive...

This Weekend: Daytona’s Turkey Run

Thanksgiving weekend us upon us and for most of the country that means your junk is sitting idle in the garage, under a tarp, or like us, in the elements. Note that we said most of the country. If...