Season 1 2016

David Freiburger introduces you to the new daily show on Motor Trend OnDemand: Roadkill Extra, where you'll see behind the scenes clips, tech tips, outtakes, question-and-answer sessions, deep looks into Roadkill project cars, and lots more.

In episode 5 of Roadkill Garage, Freiburger and Dulcich snagged a 1967 Jeep panel delivery from JP Magazine editor Rick Péwé. Watch this episode of Roadkill Extra to see and hear more detail about the history and tech behind the rare Kaiser Willys Jeep military vehicle known as the Flannel Wagon.

Some members of the Roadkill and Engine Masters audience are young enough that they have never driven a car with a carburetor, yet our shows mostly feature carbureted cars and engines. In this Roadkill Extra, David Freiburger gives you a spotters guide to all the types of four-barrel carburetors typically seen in muscle cars and hot rods.

Steve Dulcich is the co-host of Roadkill Garage and also Engine Masters. But who is this guy? Roadkill Extra answers that question as David Freiburger interviews Dulcich, who's been a gearhead friend for 20 years. What you'll learn about Dulcich may surprise you!

You have questions, our hosts have answers. Every Friday, Roadkill Extra features Freiburger and Finnegan addressing the comments that fans post to the Roadkill Facebook page.

In Episode 40 of Roadkill, you saw an orange 1970 Plymouth Duster being parted out to donate some guts to the Roadkill Crop Duster. Now you can hear the whole backstory of the formerly famous Orange Duster from Car Craft magazine and how it came to be built by David Freiburger, painted by Steve Dulcich, and then neglected on a grape farm for a dozen years.

Spoiler alert! This Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, features a behind-the-scenes walk-through of the set of Roadkill Episode 55, which has not yet been posted. It goes live on Motor Trend OnDemand in early September, but you can get a sneak peek now on Roadkill Extra, if you dare

Roadkill Garage cohost Steve Dulcich may have the market cornered for '70s Dodge pickups. The dude has more shortbeds than any one person should be allowed to own (for mental health reasons), and in this episode of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, David Freiburger shows 'em all.

Here's the second installment of the Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge question-and-answer session that comes to you every Friday. Follow Roadkill at Facebook.com/RoadkillShow and watch for the posts in which David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan ask for questions from fans. You might find your name mentioned on Roadkill Extra and, if you're lucky, the guys may even take your question seriously

Steve Dulcich is not just a video cohost, he's also the editor of Engine Masters magazine and a longtime engine builder. In this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, Dulcich walks you through his homegrown secret to making big power with Edelbrock cylinder heads for small-block Mopar V-8s.

Every car freak loves a good junkyard, and David Freiburger is king of seeing the gold through the rust. In this episode of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, follow Freiburger's stream of consciousness as he peruses the unusual collection of cars and trucks belonging to Andy Maass. This was shot at the location used for Roadkill Episode 55.

Lucky Costa is a mobile mechanic who found his way onto the set of the Overhaulin' show a few years ago and who is now the cohost of our Hot Rod Garage program and a regular guest on Roadkill. He's even in one episode (so far) of Roadkill Garage. In this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, David Freiburger grills Costa on his backstory so you can get to know him better than you do already.

Don't you wish you still had your first car? Many old guys do, but Steve Dulcich is one who hung onto his first big project through thick and thin. Best of all, it's a desirable 1971 Dodge Charger R/T muscle car with 440ci big-block power. In this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, Dulcich tells some of the allegedly true tales of hanging onto a special car for 35-plus years.

The guys may have had too many beers by the time they get around to shooting the Freiburger & Finnegan Friday Facebook Q&A, so you never really know what you're gonna get. But it will probably be good and semi informative. This is the Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge installment during which fans ask the questions and the Roadkill hosts serve up the answers.

Every time the Roadkill guys go to a junkyard, there are one or two cars that stand out as the stars of the yard-the ones they really wish they could take home. In this installment of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, have a look at David Freiburger's pick from Andy Maass' collection in Colorado, where Roadkill Episode 55 was shot.

Unfortunately, the answer to how to buy any '70 to '74 Plymouth 'Cuda for cheap is to have been alive in the '80s, when fewer people cared about them. In this episode of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, hear about how Roadkill Garage's Steve Dulcich landed a legit '71 out of a junkyard and drove it home.

You've seen this car on Hot Rod Garage and also Roadkill Garage. Now get the details on Lucky Costa's super-cool, daily driven, owner-built 1966 Chevy Chevelle with LS power, a six-speed transmission, wicked suspension, and a whole lot more under that deceptive primer job.

The best video dog ever was Bika, The Roadkill Dog, who starred in many episodes but has sadly passed away. No one will replace her, but you may have noticed a whole pack of dogs that show up in nearly every episode of Roadkill Garage. These mutts are part of Steve Dulcich's pet farm. In this episode of Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, you'll hear about Big Joe the Shop Dog, aka BJTSD.

Follow Roadkill on Facebook @RoadkillShow! That's where we go to get fodder for the Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge installments, during which hosts David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan answer questions from fans and generally wax poetic on all sorts of gearhead subjects.

You can't keep Roadkill's David Freiburger away from vintage 4x4s, and this Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge shows you why he finds merit in a super-rusty 1973 Chevy Blazer that he spotted in Colorado during the filming of Roadkill Episode 55.

This Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge is a twofer: You get to see a cool, junkyard-find, low- mileage 1969 Plymouth Satellite, and at the same time, David Freiburger gives you some background on the Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth line of B- and RB-series big-block V-8s. This spotter's guide could help you figure out what you're looking at during the next junkyard crawl or cruise night.

Get to know the background of Elana Scherr, the new editor for Roadkill.com and Roadkill magazine in this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge! She's a real car nut, a former Hot Rod magazine staffer, and a great writer, so make sure to check out her stuff every day at Roadkill.com

In this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge, we explore an engine's ignition timing, or spark timing, which is much like the mysteries of the pyramids for many car people. In this video, David Freiburger hopes to make it all clear with words and bad drawings. What is timing? How about advance and retard? Why does an engine need the timing advanced as rpm increases? It's all covered here.

A Roadkill question-and-answer session featuring Steve Dulcich from Roadkill Garage and Engine Masters (rather than with Mike Finnegan, but don't worry, Fin is still on the show). This time, on Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge, hang out with Dulcich and Freiburger in their secret 90-weight pond and petting zoo as they respond to questions from fans posted to Facebook.com/RoadkillShow.

Fans have asked for details on David Freiburger's Jeep, so we are delivering on this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge. Interestingly, this 2001 Jeep Wrangler has never been on Roadkill or Roadkill Garage, but it's appeared often enough on Facebook and Instagram that it's recognizable to hard-core Roadkillers worldwide.

You'll get a guided tour on this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge. David Freiburger walks you behind the scenes at The Enthusiast Network to share some magazine lore, give a peek at the photo studio where so many top magazine covers have been shot, and let you see the whole shop in which Roadkill and Hot Rod Garage are shot.

Gear ratios can be confusing, so in this episode of Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge, David Freiburger tries to clear up the differences between high gears (which have low numbers) and low gears (which have higher numbers). You'll get a few other tech tips and factoids along the way.

You should drive an interesting car every day! David Freiburger and Elana Scherr are here to convince you of that and to discuss the pros and cons of a vintage transportation car. It's the first of our opinion pieces here on Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge.

This time the dogs upstage David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich as they wax philosophical when responding to questions from the fans. As you watch, cruise over to Facebook.com/RoadkillShow, follow us, and watch for future posts asking for your questions to be answered on the Q&A sessions that are posted every Friday on Roadkill Extra Powered by Dodge.

In episode 54 of Roadkill, David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan rescued a 1970 Challenger that was a former dirt-track car and returned it to the street, later racing it at the 2016 Roadkill Nights event in Pontiac, Michigan. This Roadkill Extra powered by Dodge gives you a deeper look at the car than what you may have gotten in the full-length Roadkill episodes.

Hot Rod Drag Week 2016 played out in September, and social media and our own content outlets are still buzzing with the cars and the news. In this episode of Roadkill Extra, Drag Week founder David Freiburger describes what the event is all about.

The Swedes came to Hot Rod Drag Week in full force in 2016, and Freiburger shows you the quickest of them all: an Opel Ascona that has run high 7s with a nitrous big-block, and that has won the Stockholm Open six times. The car is also full of Roadkill-style junkyard parts.

Hot Rod Drag Week is the home of #BecauseRoadkill failure moments. In this Roadkill Extra, check out the disaster that befell a racer with a convertible Mustang as it was going about 140 mph.

Remember when Roadkill tried to set a land-speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats, but ended up blowing up their big-block Chevy engine? It took years to get around to it, but the guys finally disassembled that engine, and this Roadkill Extra shows you what went wrong.

Brian Lohnes and David Freiburger co-host the Hot Rod Drag Week live video feed every year, and as part of that they end up road tripping together for 1,000-plus miles. Things get pretty out of control. In this Roadkill Extra the best part is Brian busting Freiburger’s chops, but you’ll also hear about the types of Americana they see on the road as well as their who-has-visited-the-most-drag-strips contest.

The Roadkill Rotsun, a ’71 Datsun 240Z, is famed as the car that never fails to fail. Maybe it’s the curse of the S30 chassis platform, because there was a really radical, 8-second, turbo-LS-powered 240Z at Hot Rod Drag Week 2016 that showed great promise, but then…Roadkill. See it here.

What happens when you try and give hipster food to a couple gearheads? Find out here as Freiburger and Dulcich from Roadkill Garage try and open a coconut and figure out why anyone would want to eat one.

Westech Performance Group in Mira Loma, California, is the site of countless engine-dyno tests you’ve seen in magazines for almost 20 years, and it’s also the set for Motor Trend’s Engine Masters show. In this Roadkill Extra, David Freiburger gives you a tour of the place that’s deeper than you’ve ever before seen.

Remember the Dodge 360 small-block engine from Roadkill Garage episodes 3 and 4? It was later run on the dyno for Engine Masters episode 14, and then rebuilt, hopped up, and retested for a future Engine Masters. But the machine shop screwed it up pretty badly, so here’s an update from the set of Roadkill Garage on what’s coming next for the powerplant that is supposed to end up in the Vanishing Paint Challenger.

You’ve now seen Roadkill host David Freiburger’s ’71 Plymouth Road Runner in an episode of Roadkill and one episode of Roadkill Garage with another one coming. But in this Extra you’ll get to know the car even better as Freiburger geeks out on all his Mopar-loving minutia about the car and its options.