Parking Lot Racing Is Actually Fun To Watch When The Cars Are This Dumb

Motor Trend’s YouTube show “Roadkill” has been a consistently excellent source of automotive idiocy for years. In 49 episodes they’ve lived many our jalopy dreams by putting monster engines in weird cars and using a Sawzall with extreme prejudice. Now we get to see their terrible fleet together in a...

Sep 12, 2025

You Can Use Hand Sanitizer To Remove Tree Sap From Your Car

Along with sketchy mechanics, speed limits and faulty O2 sensors, tree sap is your car’s worst nightmare. Once it has marred your otherwise pristine paint job, the stuff just won’t come off. The good news is that there’s actually an easy way to remove the plant excrement. There are tons...

Sep 12, 2025

eBay Challenge: Cars You Loved As A Kid For Less Than $15,000

One of the biggest driving forces in the used car market, especially for cars that appreciate in value, is nostalgia. That rose-colored feeling that paints every automotive wonder as an impossibly high standard is what makes gems like the Toyota Supra and Acura NSX valuable today, and therein lies your...

Sep 12, 2025

Does This Cheap Ferrari Deserve To Be Rescued From Its Tasteless Owner?

Exotic-car ownership, like anything super exclusive, becomes easier to reach by the everyday man over time. While this may put those once-unreachable goals within your comfort zone, it also makes supercars like available to any negligent and tasteless owner with the cash to afford the sizable down payment. So the...

Sep 12, 2025

Here Are Ten Cars You Loved As A Kid For Less Than $15,000

Things were much simpler when you were a little younger, a lot more naïve, and you thought the only criteria for buying a car was how cool it looked. That’s why for less than a $15,000 budget on eBay, and my inner child is grinning ear to ear. was the...

Sep 12, 2025

James May Wrenching On A Lawnmower Engine Should Not Be This Entertaining

James May is a weird dude, but he’s also a brilliant entertainer. Just watch this video of him assembling an old lawnmower. He somehow manages to make a boring situation—an old man quietly putting together a mundane gardening tool—entertaining. James May has a new series out called “The Reassembler,” in...

Sep 12, 2025

The Baja Is Getting Repainted, And Yes, That Includes The Topper

Did you honestly think I was going to leave it red? See just how many commenters asked if it was, in fact, staying that color. I have loved cars since I could talk, and I’ve loved Subarus almost as long. I love them so much… ...

Sep 12, 2025

I'm Giving Away A Car, And Here's How You Can Get It

If you’ve ever dreamed of a project car, but for whatever reason haven’t had the resources to get one off the ground, this may be your lucky day. Because I’ve apparently lost my mind, I’m about to give away a Volkswagen Jetta with a VR6 engine that you can modify...

Sep 12, 2025

Take A Walk Around My Hoard Of Broken Jeeps Live Right Now

A few months ago, I asked you if I was over my head with my project cars. You said “.” Then a short while later, when all five of my crap-cans broke down simultaneously, you said “.” Here’s an update on that fleet of junkers. Even though I’m trying hard...

Sep 12, 2025

eBay Challenge: Cars You Would Never Buy For Any Price

Sometimes you have to know what you don’t want in life in order to know what you actually do want. That’s why, this week, I challenge you to find me the cars on eBay that you wouldn’t buy for any price. Welcome to hell. .Cars must be operable/easily restored to...

Sep 12, 2025

This Geo Metro On A Wrangler Frame Is A Jeeper's Worst Nightmare

This is a Geo Metro body on a Jeep Wrangler TJ frame—a Jeep-nut’s worst nightmare. I get it, the cars have the same wheelbase, but just because it can be done, definitely doesn’t mean it should. Here’s the description (which incorrectly labels the year as 1996—they didn’t make Wranglers in...

Sep 12, 2025

What Is The Best Classic Roadster You Can Buy Now?

Things are weird in the land of two-seater convertibles these days! We’ve , Japanese cars with turbocharged Italian engines, black is white, up is down, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! It makes me long for a simpler time. As the resident sports car purist at Jalopnik,...

Sep 12, 2025

Barn Finds Not Only Exist, But They're Freaking Everywhere!

Thanks to the miracle of the internet, traditional, old-school car enthusiasts can now put all of their rusty gold online for the world to ogle and bid up to ridiculous prices, leaving virtually no more rare barn finds for the people who prefer to shake hands instead of texting. As...

Sep 12, 2025

How To Work On Cars And Not Kill Yourself

Over the last six or seven years, I’ve been wrenching on cars almost non-stop. But since I don’t have any formal training, I’ve hurt myself quite a few times. I’ve cut myself on rusty sheetmetal, squirted battery acid in my eye, and set lots of stuff aflame. All of...

Sep 12, 2025

Watch A Beautiful Time-Lapse Of A Flathead Ford V8 Rebuild

The Ford flathead V8 is perhaps the most iconic V8 engine ever built. Its launch marked the beginning of affordable V8s in America, and ultimately helped spawn hot rod culture. Here’s a gorgeous time lapse showing the magnificent contraption getting a full rebuild. Chevy’s small block V8 might be the...

Sep 12, 2025