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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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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...

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...