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Video of the Week: When Nitrous Goes Bad
May 14, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video of the Week: When Nitrous Goes Bad
Nitrous, like fire, can be man’s best friend or worst enemy when it goes wrong. Consider this video as going as wrong as it can possibly go. The drag car in question suffers a flaming nitrous...
Video of the Week: The Corsica Q-Ship
May 07, 2009Brian Lohnes1
Most call cars like this lowly looking Chevy Corsica a sleeper. We like the older school Q-Ship terminology. Q-Ships were essentially decoy ships used by the British and US Navies during WWI and...
eBay Pick of the Week: Magazine Cars
May 04, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on eBay Pick of the Week: Magazine Cars
For this week’s eBay surfing, we decided to just search cars and trucks that had been in magazines. Usually that turns up an insider or two looking to flip a car and make a buck, but this time...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Twin-Engine Dragster!
Mar 13, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on CraigsList Pick of the Week: Twin-Engine Dragster!
Just in case anyone thought we were going all soft on you with the feature on the Maserati earlier in the week, we’re bringing ourselves back to our knuckledraggin’ roots with this pick....
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Snafuperman
Jan 06, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: Snafuperman
This week’s pic is a detail shot of a model of a P-38 Lightning that’s housed in the hallway of the Bob Hope Airport here in Burbank. But the story is much bigger than that. As...
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: The Reverend Willie G.
Dec 16, 2008Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: The Reverend Willie G.
I’ve “known” Billy F. Gibbons for about 15 years, and I use the term loosely because he’s one of those guys I have to meet every time I see him. After all, I’m just a...
More Cool Dave Wallace Photos: The Corvair Van Jump
Dec 09, 2008Chad ReynoldsComments Off on More Cool Dave Wallace Photos: The Corvair Van Jump
When we first fired up the Junkyard we ran a news item on photos of Dave Wallace’s Road Runner from back when it was new in 1969. If you don’t know Wallace (D2), he’s a longtime...
Vintage race Car of the Week: The Tyrell P34
Dec 09, 2008Brian LohnesComments Off on Vintage race Car of the Week: The Tyrell P34
Maybe this is the week I’ve gone off the deep end, but I think this is the coolest Formula One car in history. I first saw this car looking through some old racing books at the town library...
eBay Pick of the Week: M/T Crossram for Ford FE Motors
Dec 08, 2008Chad ReynoldsComments Off on eBay Pick of the Week: M/T Crossram for Ford FE Motors
When the nostalgia craze went into overdrive a few years ago, tons of old-timers dragged their vintage multi-carb intakes off the garage shelves and tossed them onto eBayMotors.com to auction them...