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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: It’s Time For The Twin 50’s Big Money Bracket Races In St. Louis! Thursday Dragster Roller Shootout!

It’s time for some more big money bracket racing and that means not one, but TWO $50,000 races going on this weekend in St. Louis! Racers across the mid west get ready, it’s time for another...

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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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FREE IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series Spring Nationals LIVESTREAM – Pro Am Time Trials & Qualifying From Darana Raceway

It’s time for more IHRA Outlaw Nitro Series racing action baby! They are back at it, coming to you from IHRA Darana Dragway National Trail in Ohio, where racers are going to be battling it out for...

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The 2027 Dakar Rally Route Has Been Announced! Check Out Where It’s Going Below!

We’ve been fans of the Dakar Rally for decades, and we love to share coverage from the race here whenever possible. It’s been an interesting journey for the Dakar Rally in the last 10...

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Here’s The Story Of Freiburger’s Original Muscle Truck, And How We Helped Make This Awesome Squarebody A Thing!

I am willing to bet that there probably isn’t anyone who’s cut more stuff off of Freiburger’s Muscle Truck than I have. Since I was there for the original build, as part of our...

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Drag Race Feature: This 900HP, 511 Cubic Inch FE Powered, 1967 Mercury Comet Nostalgia Super Stocker Runs 9s!

This 1967 Mercury Comet is a really cool Nostalgia Super Stocker that brings back memories of some cool Mercury drag cars I grew up with at Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. One of my...

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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...