You don't see many E12s on the road these days, but I saw two of them at a Northern California self-service junkyard…
If you ever needed proof that the Mercury marque suffered from puzzling, left-handed FoMoCo branding strategies over…
A few months back, I spotted this '82 Renault Le Car in the "fixer-upper" section of an East Bay wrecking yard. "How…
After the semi-high-tech Vega turned out to be such a headache for The General, the Chevette was just the ticket:…
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Let's just contemplate this Car-Freshner Little Tree twisting in the East Oakland breeze and remember that the Grim…
Would any self-respecting serial killer ply his trade in a "Super Banana Yellow" Dodge Tradesman? In this case,…
Though we rarely see 124 Spiders on the street nowadays, they are still out there. Here's one that hung on long…
So you've got numbers-matching, date-code-obsessed Mopar fanatics paying forty octillion bucks for 318-powered '70…
How often do you see this sequence at a high-turnover self-service junkyard: Jaguar XJ Series III, Mercedes-Benz…
We know, the Biturbo really was a black eye on Maserati's reputation… but it's still strange seeing Italian royalty…
If you were into hot-rodded Beetles during the Late Malaise Era, as I most certainly was, you probably remember the…
When 95% of your typical East Bay junkyard's customers speak enough Spanish to know that "no va" means "it doesn't…
By 1983, Nissan was in the final stages of phasing out the Datsun name in the North American market, so every Datsun…
Say you're at the junkyard and you need some component that's buried beneath a bunch of tedious-to-remove parts you…
What came after the Malaise Era? The Turbo Era, of course! In 1986, when your car had a turbocharger under the hood,…
Peugeot gave up on North America in 1991, so 405s (and 505s) of this era don't exactly crowd the Jettas out of the…
While today's Junkyard Find dwarfs its 1965 ancestor we saw in the same wrecking yard a while back, it's still on…
Fans of Malaise Era Japanese iron often tell me they'd love to do an 810 wagon project, but claim they can't be…
I wish I'd had shots of this glorious '70 Mark III when I made the Junkyard Desktop Wallpaper Gallery, because it's…