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Sheet Metal Cut and Butt: Check Out These Simple Techniques, Tips, And Tricks For Do It Yourself Rust Repair.

If you aren’t a regular watcher of metal shaping and sheet metal fabrication videos, you might not know that one of the common sheet metal replacement techniques is called the cut and butt...

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Stanceworks Real Ferrari F40 Project Part 10: Does an 800HP V12 Fit in an F40? Let’s find out.

The F40 is getting an engine! But remember, this is just the process for figuring out if the engine will even fit. This car originally came with a V8, and that means there are several cylinders worth...

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Tony Angelo Traded and Sold His Way into an EPIC ’60’s Oldsmobile LOWRIDER! But What Did He Have To Give Up?

Sometimes a trade is even better than just making a straight buy. When two parties agree that what they both have is a fair trade, and that they would like to own the other’s item, that’s...

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Oiling System Tech: Does An Oil Filter Bypass at COLD START? And Does It Matter One Way Or The Other?

Oil, no oil, clean oil, dirty oil. It seems to me that those are the options when and engine starts and I guess I’m a fan of having oil flowing, clean OR dirty, rather than having no oil flow...

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FORGOTTEN BIG BLOCK BRONCO! Will This Fire Damaged Locked Up Ford RUN AGAIN For Derek?

How do so many cool cars and trucks get forgotten and left to return back to the earth? It always makes me wonder, and then I look at the pile of cars and trucks I have sitting around at the shop and...

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Sick Week Day 5 Video: The FINAL DAY of Racing Decides EVERYTHING – Hearts Broken And Winners Crowned!

Cold, rain, miles, mayhem, and carnage. All of these things made the 2026 edition of Sick Week a bit more of a challenge than some folks were prepared for. There are a lot of racers who didn’t...

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New Gallery: 25 Paint Ideas

As a guy who can’t own a shiny car, it’s a little surprising that I snap photos of paint ideas everywhere I go. It’s the editor in me, wanting to share all these car-related...

Video Review: Lions, The Greatest Drag Strip

The third and final installment of Don Gillespie’s highly acclaimed video series, “Lions: The Greatest Dragstrip” is out and available for purchase and is a must-have for any...

Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Skyin’ the Poncho

I’ve been photographing all sorts of automotive adventures for many years, so I decided it would be cool to share some of my unseen photos in a new regular feature on FreiburgersJunkyard.com...

Barnstormin’: Why the Nurburgring Kinda Sucks

One of the things we decided to do at FreiburgersJunkyard.com is to have regular opinion columns in the blog. It looks like I get to go first. I’m Brian Lohnes, and my column is called...

Bubble-Roof Counter Attack!

Sure, Freibuger posted photos of the zooty Thunder Flite and its all well crafted and engineered and all. There’s a problem though. We’re not the well crafted, well engineered types. He...

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...