It’s me, David Freiburger, and I am finally on YouTube! You know me from TV shows such as Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, and Engine Masters, and from magazines like Hot Rod, Car Craft, and 4-Wheel & Off-Road. On my channel you’ll see videos that are more personal to me than what’s on TV, such as my own gearhead vacation road trips. I’ll have updates on many of my well known cars, like the General Mayhem, Original Muscle Truck, Crusher Impala, and many others. You’ll also see driveway wrenching and I’ll have hot rod history sprinkled into nearly every episode.

People frequently ask what’s going on with my various project cars, so here’s an update on everything I own to kick off my YouTube channel! General Mayhem, Original Muscle Truck, F-Bomb Camaro, Crusher Impala, Hemi Gremmie…they are all here. Plus a bunch of other junk.

My first big adventure on The David Freiburger Channel is a killer road trip in a great old 1971 Ford Torino station wagon bought sight unseen. Ride along with me for wrenching with Dirthead Dave Chappelle, exploring an abandoned WWII Kaiser Aluminum plant, and hitting the road with a few breakdowns and lots of ‘40s and ‘50s Americana in Oregon, Idaho, and California. Ghost signs, old neon, a haunted asylum, a ghost town, a deserted junkyard—it’s all here, and more.

Watch this video from the 2023 event to get the idea of just how fun it is at the Duct Tape Drags. It’s really an event like none other with a completely laid back atmosphere. Don’t miss the Battle of the Beaters dirt-cheap drag race in the second half of this episode. You’ll also see Lucky, Dulcich, Birdsong, Dave Chappelle, Pole Barn Garage, and Roadkill crew guys Alex, Wiley, and Mason.

The Crusher Camaro has been a project car for 30 years in Hot Rod Magazine and on MotorTrend TV shows such as Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, Hot Rod Garage, and Hot Rod Unlimited. This 1967 Chevy Camaro has a background defying the car crushing law, and has changed from a ‘90s street machine, to a Pro Touring look (twice), to an early ‘80s version with a blown big-block, to a street/strip ride with an LS7, and much more. This episode celebrates 30 years of the Crusher Camaro and delves into the behind-the-scenes stories of all eight-plus versions of the car.

You’ve seen the 1967 Crusher Camaro in a number of issues of Hot Rod magazine over the past 30 years, and also in a bunch of episodes of Roadkill, Roadkill Garage, and Hot Rod Garage on MotorTrend TV. In this video, I’m going to test it on the quarter-mile dragstrip. For the car’s latest setup, I returned it to the way it looked when it was first finished in Hot Rod in 1995, Convo Pro wheels and all. It even has the same cowl-induction hood it had 30 years ago. The engine is a 400ci small-block Chevy, the trans is a GearStar Turbo 350, it has a Gear Vendors overdrive, and the rearend is a 9-inch with 3.50:1 gears. Prior to this video, the Camaro had run 11.75 seconds at The Strip in Las Vegas. How quick can it be at Famoso Dragstrip near Bakersfield? That’s what we're here to find out, and I’ll give you some history and trivia along the way.

It’s us, David Freiburger and Rick Péwé, the team that has brought you DED Tour adventures since the 1990s. This time we're on a 600-mile road trip from Colorado to Arizona in a 1971 Jeepster Commando that had been on a ranch for many years. After a bit of wrenching, we hit the highway and discover a guy living in a 1949 Chevy dealership, then find a family-owned auto parts store abandoned in the late ’80s with parts still on the shelf!

In this video I’ll take you to 1980s Los Angeles street racing spots and former speed shops! You’ll also see the old cruise locations on Van Nuys Blvd., the site of the abandoned San Fernando Drag Strip, and my former workplaces at Hot Rod Magazine, Burbank Dodge, and Car Junkie TV. There’s also some info on the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California, and I’m hitting all of this in my 1971 Plymouth known as The Red Duster. And there are many great then-and-now photos I love so much!

It’s Drag Week 2024, and David Freiburger, Brian Lohnes, and KJ Jones are back! That’s the team on the Hot Rod Drag Week live video feed, and in this episode, we’ll show you what it’s like behind the scenes as we hit the road for the 20th running of Drag Week in 2024. Fun, laughs, and little sleep deprivation, and some couch-riding booger eaters. You’ll also see details on a bunch of the cars that make the annual trek on the backroads to determine who has the Hot Rod Fastest Street Car in America.

Here’s a wild story about how my 1970 Dodge Super Bee ended up in a 1984 TV movie directed by Henry Winkler and starring Scott Baio with a cameo by Danny DeVito! My car got crashed a little, another Dodge and a 1964 Olds got smashed a lot, and I crushed on Heather Locklear along the way. On top of all that, “Fonzie” dropped the F-bomb on me! Later, we made use of the automotive leftovers on our own muscle cars.

Abandoned places, Muffler Men, radical old hotels, vintage neon signs, and pure Americana abound in another Freiburger vacation road trip video! This time I’m in my 1990 Chevy Suburban 4x4 as I tour Casa Grande, Tucson, Naco, and Lowell, Arizona. A big segment of this episode features Jack’s Government Truck Surplus, the greatest military junkyard I’ve ever seen! You’ll learn lots about models of Army trucks, and find the best dive cafe in Tucson!

It's where hot rodding began, and it’s still happening today! Racing for land speed records at the Bonneville and El Mirage dry lakes is one of my passions. In this video, I’ll walk you through the hot rod history of El Mirage Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert and also give you the basics of the race procedures with the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA). I’ll show you some of the crazy hot rods, belly tanks, lakesters, and even pickup trucks that participate.

In this video, you’ll watch me take this car from beater that a guy had driven daily since 1990 and turn it into less of a beater and a great-with-sketchy-paint cruiser with a little money and not a lot of labor right in my own driveway. Let me know how I did! Should I have removed the bumper? Could I have worked harder to add a stripe? What do you think of the wheels? The good news is you can change anything you like if you win the car. Good luck!

This is the history of In ’n’ Out Pomona Drag Strip, the world’s oldest drag strip in continuous operation! I’ll also tell you about my ’68 Chevy Camaro that I’m giving away, and take you to Hot Rod magazine’s 2024 Power Tour West.

It’s Part 1 of the 2024 Duct Tape Drags presented by Freiburger and Derek Bieri from Vice Grip Garage! This is the super chill event for people who understand that cars don’t have to be perfect to be fun; it’s the embodiment of “don’t get it right, just get it running.” You’ll see the cruise-in, VGG burnout pit, drag racing, and bonfire party…we’ve got it all. We covered as many participants as we could this year, so maybe YOU are in the video. My next video is Part 2 with the Battle of the Beaters race for dirt-cheap cars.

On November 18, 2024, MotorTrend announced that that my TV shows would no longer be produced. That means Roadkill (13 seasons) and Roadkill Garage (9 seasons). The spinoffs were also ceased, including Hot Rod Garage, Faster With Newbern & Cotten, and Roadworthy Rescues. There are many episodes of those shows that have been produced but not aired or streamed, and MotorTrend tells me that all those unseen episodes will continue to stream on Max and Discovery+, and will also air in 2025 on MotorTrend cable TV. Some complete episodes can still be seen on the MotorTrend channel of YouTube.

It’s the hilarious Battle of the Beaters race for dirt cheap cars with special guests Steve Dulcich of Roadkill Garage and Tony Angelo of Stay Tuned! You’ll also get a bit of Derek from Vice Grip Garage. And, of course, me David Freiburger. This is the second video from the 2024 Duct Tape Drags at Tucson Dragway, so don’t miss part one on my channel. Watch the hosts and the crowd decide if these cars are worth $5,000 or less, or if they make us happy enough that we let them run either way. Yeah, we make up the rules as we go. After judging, the cars rip or stroll down the track in a heads-up shooting until there’s only one car standing in each class. This is for the fun and the glory! Mostly the fun.

Sold way too cheap! Seller’s remorse! Yeah, I buy high and sell low. I also fall in love with nearly every car and don’t want to get rid of it. But even after 200-plus lifetime vehicles including muscle cars, pickups, and 4x4s…it’s going to surprise you to see the top 10 that I’d most like to be driving again right now.

Here’s a Freiburger history hunting road trip through the Mojave Desert! Come along as I seek the roads followed by the pioneers of hot rodding to discover radical vintage buildings and cafes, aviation lore, abandoned places, and way more! I’m doing it all in my 1990 Chevy Suburban 4x4, and I’ll kick it off with all the details about that truck . It’s really good.

Rick Péwé and I started doing the “will it run?” thing in about 1996. We’d go to a guy who had a dead vehicle, get it running in his driveway, and then road trip it on a huge adventure where we had to four-wheel along the way. We called it Dirt Every Day, or a DED Tour. In this video, we’re doing it in Rick’s own driveway, wrenching on the virtually stock 1941 Ford GPW that we drove from Phoenix to Alaska 20 years ago. This time, we’re headed from Phoenix to Key West—but the “new” engine developed a brutal rod knock. So we did whatever it took to get us on the road, and that meant installing an engine that had not run in 36 years!

Another Rick Péwé and David Freiburger road trip adventure! In this video we’re driving 2,500-plus miles across the United States in a nearly stock World War II army jeep from 1941 with an engine that had not run since 1986! The goal: survive the backroads from Phoenix, Arizona, to Key West, Florida. See my prior video for the “will it run?” build, and watch this 2.5-hour special for big fun with breakdowns, Americana, amazing sights, and great friends!

This is a week in my gearhead life, a behind the scenes look at my days now that Roadkill is cancelled. It’s nonstop car stuff, from the NHRA drag races to shooting videos in my garage, wrenching on my dad’s flatfender jeep, and even visiting new cars at the LA Auto Show. (For the record, I don’t think I’m getting either the Ranger Raptor or the ZR2.) You’ll also get a hint at an upcoming episode.