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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: We’ve Got The FIA Euro Finals 2024, From Santa Pod – Saturday

It’s time for the FIA European Finals at Santa Pod. This is the biggest “National Event” of the year at Santa Pod and features most all the classes you have come to know and love at...

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FREE LIVE STREAMING VIDEO: The Summer Fling Is On In Bristol And It Is $50,000 To Win Saturday!

The Summer Fling is ON! With Wednesday being worth $15,000 to win, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday all worth $50,000 per day, this is going to be a big money week in bracket racing. On Tuesday,...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Division 5 At Tri-State Raceway – Saturday

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 5! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

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Another Junkyard Engine To Swap! LT Based Aluminum DI LV1 And LV3 4.3L V6 Accidental Marketplace Find Features & Possibilities!

When my buddy Jeff Lee at ET Enterprises found a couple of interesting engines on Facebook Marketplace, and then had to share all the info with a group chat we’re in, I cursed him. I know these...

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Classic Truck Show Photos: Here’s Our Fourth Gallery Of Photos From The Classic Truck Nationals In Gainesville, Texas

The Classic Truck Nationals were a good time as usual, and I got several galleries of photos to share. Check out gallery number three below.. I have a few more to share as well, and if you missed the...

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More Sports Car Racing Photos From The IMSA Michelin GT Challenge At Virginia International Raceway – America’s Baddest Sports Car Racing Series Action!

(Words and Photos by David Whealon) Well we’re back to the rolling hills of the southern Virginia countryside at one of the most beautiful and award winning road racing courses in the USA,...

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Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Juvenile Mayhem at the Car Craft Shop

Here’s an example of the stupid fun that we used to have at Car Craft magazine. This was shot in 2002 at the magazine’s shop in Gardena, California. At the far right is a ’92 Z28...

Barnstormin’: A Day With the Vermont Junkyard Guy

As many of you know, the title of my weekly column here at FJY.com was also slated to be the title of a recurring show on the old CJTV site. We got one episode out before the end came. There was a...

More ’60s Airport Stretchers

In response to the item we had last week with the ’62 Dodge airport limo, Mike Artman at Namtra Media (our web development guys) came up with this cool shot of some ’63 Pontiac Catalina...

A NASCAR Tucker?

Yeah, as insane as it sounds, someone raced a Tucker in a NASCAR race back in 1950. We were alerted to this posting over at Hemmings and just had to share it. The story of the Tucker of course was...

eBay Pick of the Week: Genuine Vintage Anglia Gasser

Man, I’m just a total sucker for stuff like this. I went nuts when I found this real, nearly unmolested example of an Anglia Gasser fresh from the Feb. ’66 issue of Hot Rod magazine, but...

New Carburetor from QFT

Quick Fuel Technology has just announced that in a few months it will offer another new carb, this one clearly a variant of the Holley 4500 Dominator platform but created in aluminum with all-new...

Monday Time Killer: L.A. Library Photo Database

It seems as though many car guys are also into history, both of the gearhead hobby and beyond. If that describes you, then you’ll end up wasting lots of hours here at the Los Angeles Public...

New Gallery: 60 Photos of Chevelles and El Caminos

Everywhere I go I snap photos of cars. Even in just the last year or so that’s added up to a whole lot of pics, so I’ve been gathering them by category and presenting them here every once...

Update 1: The Hack-Job General Lee Rebuild Photos

Back on December 15th we reported on a General Lee Charger that had been purchased for nearly $100,000, but that turned out to be a completely butchered car cloaked in shiny paint and nice Web...

CraigsList Pick of the Week: V8 Pinto

I’ve spent a lot of time recently with some old issues of Hot Rod, and the early-’70s issues got me thinking about what happened to all the Pintos and Vegas. They used to be everywhere,...

Fryblogger: The Content You Can Expect

I’ve been pretty lame when it comes to writing my weekly editorial column here at the Junkyard. It’s supposed to happen every week at this time, but trust me, I have a long list of...

Gearhead Destination: Floyd Garrett’s Muscle Car Museum

The debate is curerently raging in our forum about the actual definition of the term “musclecar.” Frankly, it’s going to go forever because the term means something different to...

Best Action Photos of 2008

Ever since we saw the insane Top Fuel Hydroplane wreck photos shot by Mark Rebilas we’ve been keeping tabs on his blog to see all the neat stuff he’s been shooting. Mark has posted a...

Merry Christmas from FJY.com! A Visit From St. Garlits

If this looks vaguely familiar, you probably received it as an e-mail forward from your drag racing buddies. There’s another Hemi-centric version that’s kind of a hack-up of this. The...