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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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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...

The Violation Game: We May Have a Winner

You know the Violation Game, right? You add up all the automotive faux pas on a given car, have your buddy do the same, and see who gets the most. Yes, it judges. We’re ok with that, because...

Web Site of the Week: The Best Christmas Gifts Ever

It’s been our job for years to fiddle with cars. You make think we use nothing but free parts, but we’ve bought plenty of stuff from the best and the worst of ’em. It’s a...

Video of the Week: Our Christmas Wish

This week we take you to the Green Mountain state via YouTube. We’re going to a place that we’ve actually been to and shot a load of video at for “the site of which we do not...

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Mopar Freakshow: ’62 Dart Stretch Limo

Dave Wallace pointed us toward this thing in an e-mail correspondence last week and now is the perfect time to spring it on you. Its eBay auction has ended, but you can still view the goodness that...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: Smokey’s Pod Car

It was only matter of time before one of Smokey Yunick’s creations found its way to this section of our blog. It wasn’t any easy choice on which way to go for the first one, either. An...