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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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eBay Find: An Original 1963 Plymouth Savoy AWB Racer

When we were ooglinf the photos of the Arnie Beswick driven Mercury A/FX racer yesterday we couldn’t help but wonder if there were more surviving AWB race cars out there for sale. We found this...

Rest in Peace: Hummer Brand Officially Dead

Well, that’s the end of that. Hummer dealers were notified yesterday that letters were being drawn up and sent to them regarding the ending of their franchise agreements. After the deal with...

Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven

The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...

Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars

There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...

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Shop Tour: Custom Automotive Machine – Weymouth, Ma

We stopped by Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts, last weekend to beg a favor off shop owner and operator Dana Hard. We had managed to completely botch the removal of broken exhaust...

Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race

Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...

Arnie Beswick Driven 1965 Mercury Comet A/FX Car Heads to Auction, SOHC Motor and All

We’ve been Comet crazy here over the last couple of days, but reader Phil Cooper tipped us off to one of the coolest Comets ever built. This A/FX car was raced by Arnie Beswick who is known for...

The Foose John Deere Project is Complete, Can They Put it Back?

The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 project was unveiled a little while back and frankly we didn’t say anything much about it because we were trying to figure out what the hell they had sone with...

Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout

This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car....

Columnist Tells NHRA to Ditch Four-Wide Racing, Drivers Seem to Agree

Now that the dust has settled on the four-wide NHRA national event and the opinions of racers and fans are making their way to the limelight, some of the heavy hitter media members who cover the...

Historic Drag Video: Awesome Old Footage of 427-Powered Comets and Fairlanes

After continuing to lust after the RacingJunk find Comet Cyclone we showed you a while ago, we went searching out cool Comet videos on YouTube and managed to hit the mother load. Ronnie Sox, Dyno...

RacingJunk Find: A Super Clean 1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone

We have to admit to a strange, macabre fascination involving Mercury Comet Cyclones. When we were just little BangShifters, there was a fatal accident involving one of these cars in our home town....

Event Coverage: 868 Bitchin Photos from Viva Las Vegas 13

We were seriously going to start this blog item off with Viva Las Vegas song lyrics, but decided against it. Instead, we’re not going to waste any time getting to the point, which is 860-plus ...

Event Coverage: The Chicks of Viva Las Vegas

There are always chicks at Car Shows, but at Rockabilly shows like Viva Las Vegas 13, there are tons of them dressed up in all the cool, old, sexy garb. Since we were there for the car show anyway,...