You don't see many cars this old at the self-service, fast-turnover wrecking yard chains that I tend to frequent;…
Reviled as it may be nowadays, the '74 Mustang II sold very well; about 386,000 of the Pinto-derived Mustang rolled…
The 1978 VW Rabbit sedan weighed only 1,955 pounds, or about a half-ton less than the 2010 Golf. Somehow, weighing…
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the…
Volaré sedans were not-uncommon sights on the road as recently as a decade ago, but have any of us ever seen a…
The first self-service junkyard I ever experienced was an Oakland outfit called U-Pull-It. Its logo featured a Q*bert
MV Tricolor, a 55,000-ton Norwegian-flagged vehicle freighter, sank in the English Channel in 2002 carrying 2,871…
You think those Yurpeans could ever in a million years create a Royale Brougham? Hell no!
When I spotted this wagon in an East Bay wrecking yard last weekend, I thought for sure that I was looking at this…
Though I've moved to Colorado, I've still got some California junkyard photos to share. How about two Triumph TR7s…
You don't see many E12s on the road these days, but I saw two of them at a Northern California self-service junkyard…
Fascinating. Horrible. Destructive! Disgusting. Mesmerizing. Crunchy. Awesome. There really aren't enough words. And…
A few months back, I spotted this '82 Renault Le Car in the "fixer-upper" section of an East Bay wrecking yard. "How…
Since I still get emails from boombox freaks who want to buy the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox (sorry, can't part with…
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,…
Take a hammer, smash a car's glass, steal stuff inside, make sure to scare the paranoid viewer. It's a simple enough…
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…