Roadkill Extras

How can some people look at junk and call it trash while others call it gold?

The junkyard-rescue 1969 Mustang Mach 1 from Roadkill Episode 66 is called the Disgustang for good reason: It had 37 years of raccoon and rodent poop inside it when the work began.

Want more airflow for dirt cheap? Steve Dulcich is your man.

On Roadkill Episode 66, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan go to Colorado Auto & Parts in Englewood, Colorado, to rescue a 1969 Mustang Mach 1.

On Episode 17 of Roadkill Garage, you saw David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich turn a 1970 Dodge Challenger into an off-road muscle car, and also witnessed the engine (and the guys) get destroyed in a sandstorm.

Here’s the second of two Q&A sessions with David Freiburger and Rick Péwé as they made their way home from Colorado after rescuing a Jeep for an upcoming episode of Roadkill Garage.

This seems insane, but Steve Dulcich made the statement that a ’70-’71 Plymouth Duster might be in the same league styling-wise as the ’69-’70 Ford Mustang Mach 1, the latter of which is generally heralded as a pinnacle of automotive design.

Many engines of the ’50s to the early ’70s were available from the factory with either a forged steel crankshaft or a weaker cast-iron crank.

Jeep produced the Wagoneer for the 1963 through 1991 model years, making it one of the most long-running body styles in automotive history.

Freiburger and Dulcich are in the middle of doing a retro makeover on the 1967 Chevy we call the Crusher Camaro, which you’ll see in an upcoming episode of Roadkill Garage.

David Freiburger is the host of Roadkill and Rick Péwé is the editor of JP Magazine.

In an upcoming episode of Roadkill you’ll see that we expired an engine in Finnegan’s new 1969 Pontiac Firebird, but we took steps to save the next engine by using an Accusump oil accumulator.

It’s rare that Roadkill chooses a two-barrel carburetor, but when they do, they choose wisely.

Rick Péwé is the editor of JP Magazine (all Jeeps all the time) and a longtime friend of Roadkill host David Freiburger.

Roadkill has developed a fetish for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. This time, David Freiburger walks you around a 1969 Chevy C50 dump truck to feed you tips about how the bodywork could be used on your 4x4 project.

Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger are prepping to rebuild the 318ci small-block V8 in the off-road 1970 Dodge Challenger after the engine got destroyed in Roadkill Garage episode 17.

Dulcich has an engine dyno? Yup! We didn’t say it works. However, he made a serious effort to get it going and it’d be done by now if we didn’t have him so tied up shooting the Roadkill Garage show.

Freiberger takes a break from shooting the upcoming Tire Rack One Lap episode of Roadkill, to give you his opinion on the event so far.

Roadkill Garage host Steve Dulcich is in the middle of painting the Roadkill Crop Duster (a ’70 Plymouth Duster), and took a break to shoot this Roadkill Extra showing you his backyard techniques for using body filler to smooth dents after metalwork.

In episode 166 of Roadkill Garage, David Freiburger and Rick Péwé showed how to lap valves by hand on a flathead four-cylinder.

Elana Scherr is the editor of Roadkill.com and Roadkill magazine and also the voice of much of Roadkill’s Facebook and Instagram action. You’ll also see her in an upcoming episode of Roadkill that we were shooting when we grabbed this scene of her and Freiburger washing engine parts at Finnegan’s place while chatting about work and other stuff.

Many feel that the roots of the Roadkill attitude date back to when Freiburger was the editor of Car Craft magazine in the ’90s, and that same vibe lingered and was even strengthened by the next editor, Matt King.