.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.
FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – $10,000 To Win Thursday!

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

Read more

NHRA Division 6 Divisional Drag Racing Livestream: Catch All The Racing Action LIVE From Woodburn

We’ve got live drag racing coming to you from Division 6! It’s Lucas Oil Drag Racing at it’s finest and every pair that goes down the race track is right here live. If you like Sportsman Drag...

Read more

2026 Pro Pulling League Tractor Pulling Action From The Elkhart County 4-H Fair – Pull Session 1 and 2

Pro Pulling League Bad Ass Multi-Engine tractors hauling big weight and going big distances baby! Four Pro-Mod engines worth of power right here! Plus Pro Stock, Diesel Trucks, and much more....

Read more

From Home-Grown to Factory-Spec: Here Are Larry Chen’s Favorite Cars That Raced at Pikes Peak in 2026

Pike’s Peak International Hillclimb is one of the most famous, and longest running, races in the United States and with good reason. The first one was heald 110 years ago, in August of 1916 and...

Read more

This Thing Isn’t Pretty! See What Dylan McCool Thinks About REVIVING This Abandoned Dodge Coronet V8 4 Speed They Call Cornbread

Sometimes the ugly ones get passed up when it comes to project cars, and sometimes those ugly ones are the ones that really matter in the end. They are sometimes the very best car to restore, even if...

Read more

Alaska has some Unexpectedly FAST CARS! Alaska’s ONLY Dragstrip Puts On A Summer Street Car Shootout!

While Alaska may not have many drag strips, in fact jus this one at Alaska Raceway Park, what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in scenery. Everyone that has been there says it’s...

Read more

 

New Products: Halibrand Sprint and Indy Roadster Wheels For 1973-1987 GM C10 Trucks

If you are looking for a cool set of wheels for your squarebody C10 Chevy or GMC, check out these new offerings from Halibrand. These wheels look awesome on these trucks, are available in a few...

JUNKYARD LS PLUG GAP TEST. DOES MORE GAP EQUAL MORE POWER? HOW MUCH SHOULD I RUN? .010 VS .100 GAP

Spark plug gap is one of those things that some folks SWEAR makes a huge difference in power. It goes right along with the guys that think that indexing plugs is a big performance trick, but...

Newbern’s Yard Is Full Of Project Cars And He Doesn’t Know What To Do With Them All!

Newbern is at it again with a cool video showing the shop, updates going on, new lifts and cleanup happening, and a run down on a bunch of the project cars sitting around his place. I’ve talked...

Ian Johnson Is Building Two Ford 9 Inch Center Sections, A Dana 60, And A 14-Bolt For Hard Core Crawler

If you dig off-road content then you have to know our friend Ian Johnson. Ian has done all kinds of fun off-road and fabrication tv shows over the years and is one hell of a resource when it comes to...

Our Bonus Drag Week Photos From Byron Dragway Continue Right Here

Here’s our second gallery of Drag Week photos from Byron Dragway. When Jim Hrody said he had some photos from Byron Dragway during Drag Week, I was excited. And then he sent them to us and I...

NMCA All-American Nationals Photo Coverage: Our 10th, And Final, Gallery Of Event Photos

We’ve got our tenth gallery of photos from Joe Grippo’s coverage of the NMCA All-American Nationals right here. (Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Ever been to an NMCA Event? If you...

Bonus Drag Week Photos From Byron Dragway!

When Jim Hrody said he had some photos from Byron Dragway during Drag Week, I was excited. And then he sent them to us and I totally forgot about them! Yep, my bad all the way, but Jim reminded me...

Jay Leno Drives The ICON Motors Built Mercury Electric – Yep An Electric ’49 Mercury

Every time I mention EVs the hot rodding world loses their minds. Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. Meanwhile if I told someone that this 1949 Mercury was still powered...

FINNEGAN’S ROADKILL CUMMINS-SWAPPED RAMP TRUCK IS BACK!

Finnegan has too many famous rides to count, but one that has always been super popular is the Roadkill Ramp Truck. This square body dually has lived a tough life in some ways and has been fixed,...

Tommy Finds A Canadian STUDEBAKER With Chevy V8 – Is This Good, Bad Or UGLY?

It seems that Tommy has been bitten by the Studebaker bug in a big way lately, and we’re not sure if this is going to be awesome or a horrible decision that is going to run him down a rabbit...

Feature: Boyd Coddington Built The First Chopped OBS Chevrolet Sport Truck

Everyone knows Boyd Coddington’s history as a hot rod builder, but if you weren’t around in the late 1980s through mid 1990s then you might not have experienced the sport truck movement...

Single Seat Race Car Build Part 12: Rear Radius Rods And Framing Out The Cockpit!

In this latest installment of the build, the rear radius rods get sorted and the cockpit gets laid out. This isn’t a big car so all this stuff is important to get right the first time....

Fall Carlisle Swap Meet Photos: Gassers, Classics, Hot Rods, Customs And More!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Autumn in my home state of Pennsylvania means two things to me, quick E.T.’s and Swap Meet season. With Hurricane Ian bearing down us this particular weekend,...

Winter Is Coming: This 1980s Profile On Unlimited Snowmobile Speed Runs Is Fantastic

We know, we know. Winter is not something most hot rodders look forward to. Your race car is parked, your street machine is not making any noise, and we all start to count the days before Spring...