Before heading out to buy motorcycle junkyard parts you'll need to know four things to smooth out the process.

Turbos and superchargers have made extra power almost easy to come by. Thanks to them, even tiny four-cylinders can make the type of numbers that used to be reserved for big-displacement engines.

I have photographed a half-dozen or so of these cars during my junkyard travels of the last few years, though most of them were the big-bumper cars from the middle-to-late 1970s. Autoblog brings ...

For those with a sense of humor, the motorcycle-engined Honda 600 could be purchased for just $1,395 that year. The Corolla was the best deal, but the Honda would have been more fun per dollar.