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How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

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Patina Paint Tech: The Famed FREIBURGER COMET WASH, Plus Testing Other Cleaners With Before And After Tests!

I remember the first time Freiburger said we needed to Comet wash a car. We hadn’t started CarJunkieTV yet, but it wasn’t long beforehand. During the next two years I’d Comet wash...

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Christmas With Vice Grip Garage! – Derek and Jessica Open Gifts From Fans On This Holiday Special!

I know that a lot of YouTubers get gifts and stuff from fans and viewers all the time, and many of them do videos where they are opening mail and packages from them. But when it’s Christmas...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Saturday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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OLD SCHOOL Dodge 1 TON TOW TRUCK Gets Repairs and Paint Work! A Vice Grip Garage Roadworthy Rescue Christmas Bonus Episode Not To Be Missed.

In honor of the Christmas holiday, Derek has been putting out a few extra Vice Grip Garage videos the past week and we dig them. Some of them are a bit of Behind the Scenes coverage, some combine a...

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Swapping SRT4 TURBO POWER Into A MINT 1985 Dodge Minivan!! Building an EPIC Family Hauler With A Crusty SRT4.

This one here is something special. Sure, there have been plenty of turbo 4 cylinder Dodge Caravans and Plymouth Voyagers over the years, but this van is so mint that it defies description. Just wait...

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New Project Car Page: Freiburger’s Jeep

In case you haven’t checked it out yet, go have a look at the portion of the site where we keep track of most of our current project cars. You can go to the full list of project cars, or you...

Ex-NHRA Pro Stock Racer Scribner Held in California Shooting Death

Harry Scribner, a near 30-year competitor in the ranks for NHRA Pro Stock, has been arrested and is being held in the Ventura County Jail after a shooting at his home in Simi Valley, California....

Newest Mopar A-Body Repo Parts

Cruising over at Moparts.com, we were thrilled to see two new parts available for ’70-up Mopar A-bodies: base plastic steering wheels, woodgrain wheels, and dash pads. Those items didn’t...

Why Drag Boats Are Scary…With Ultimate Photos!

You may have seen the video that has been circulating through the news media showing the massive wreck at the drag boat finals in Arizona last weekend. In short, James Ray, the driver of a Top Fuel...

Bonus Monday Time-Killer! SPEED Performance Awards: Fan Voting Ends Today

SPEED TV’s Performance Awards are kind of like Oscars for racing. They have several categories in which fan votes determine the winners. Stuff like best wreck, biggest upset, and biggest...

Monday Time Killer: The Greatest Vintage Drags Thread Ever

Monday Time Killer will be a regular feature on FreiburgersJunkyard.com and will bring you an online method for blowing off at least a couple hours of work every Monday morning without your boss ever...

Miller Cup Expands to 10 Races Next Season

We were wondering what was going to become of the Miller Cup Mustang Challenge series, the road-racing circuit for the factory built Ford Mustang FR500S. Our lucky pal Rob Kinnan from Hot Rod...

Trick New In-Tank Fuel System from Aeromotive

We’re not sure but we don’t think that Steve Matusek and the staff at Aeromotive sleep much. It seems every time we turn around those guys are announcing innovative new products. Well,...

The Zany Thunder Flite

If you browsed my most recent El Mirage gallery you had to have noticed photos of this wild custom ’62 Thunderbird. The Rocket Birds are kind of an acquired taste, and I happen to dig them to...

Legends of Riverside Event Coming in March

We just got word of a tribute to SoCal’s awesome yet defunct Riverside International Raceway. Check it out:   Riverside, Calif. – – Whether you attended every event that was...

Cool Old Photos: Road Runner New in ’69

We love cool old photos of gearhead stuff and we’re also enamored of our pal Drag Racing Hall of Famer Dave Wallace, so imagine how stoked we were to intercept a recent email that included not...

Comp Cams for 3-Valve Fords

Comp Cams has announced a new more aggressive line of cams for Ford 4.6L and 5.4L three-valve engines. The XFI VSR (Valve Springs Required) cams represent a stout step up from the NSR (No Springs...

Car Nose Art

When we added cartoonish nose art to our F-Bomb Camaro it created a bit of a stir. It wasn’t at all a new idea, but perhaps it was one that had not been seen in while or that hadn’t been...

IHRA Changes Sportsman Championship Chase Format

Here they go again. The plucky IHRA has once again tree’d their big brother, the NHRA, in taking steps to ensure that racers can continue to compete for a national championship while not...