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Hammer Time: If You Want A Deal, You Have To Pay For It
BCA Auctions in Derby, UK; Courtesy of Zimbio.com I get a lot of emails from auto enthusiasts. About 60% of what I get comes down to this question. “Can you get me a high demand vehicle at a...
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My Role In The Extinction Of The American Muscle Car
1969 Chevelle SS A few weeks a go I had the opportunity to watch part of the Barrett Jackson auction. I found myself captivated by the colorful commentary that went along with each sale. Every car...
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More Than 550 Classic Cars For Sale In One Ebay Auction
If you have a half million dollars in your pocket, you can be the opening bidder on a lot of 550 classic cars located at a family owned towing and storage lot in Apache Junction, AZ and listed for...
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A Little Context From A Forgotten Photograph
We have all been there, posing proudly with our car alongside some curvy country road on a sunny afternoon. It doesn’t matter if the car is new or old, is just going through the break-in procedure or...
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Paging Dr. Ferraristein: Wrecked exotic goes up for salvage auction in...
It’s amazing what having a ton of cash can buy you these days. For example, if you have a tween daughter with big dreams to be on stage singing about her favorite Asian foods, up to $4,000 can buy her...
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Justice for the Zombie Cars
Photo courtesy of NBCnews.com Just in time for Halloween, NBC News’ China-centric news blog “Behind the Wall” is running a piece on the removal of a Chinese “Zombie car.” The car, actually a small blue...
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Missouri Law Lets Thieves Scrap Your Classics
Kansas City’s KCTV reported this week on an attempt to repair a 2012 Missouri state law that has led to a dramatic increase in car thefts. The law, which allows people to sell vehicles 10 years or...
View ArticleFrom Auction to Flip, This Is How a Salvage Car Makes It to Craigslist
Salvage and rebuilt vehicle listings on Craigslist (and other classified sites) are ubiquitous. They often manifest themselves as late-model metal with low prices and even lower standards of ad copy....
View ArticleLemon or Lemonade: March Madness
February ends. March begins. What better way to celebrate the sunny-but-cool weather of early spring than by looking at military castoffs? Luckily, the Lemon Lot full of them, and some were quite...
View ArticleYour Junkyard Find Treasure Trove Awaits
There’s something poignant about Murilee Martin’s Junkyard Find photos. Dejected, tired, forgotten by multiple owners, and stripped of their parts (and dignity) by self-interested scavengers, these...
View Article2013-15 Honda Accords Heading in the Wrong Direction
2013-15 Honda Accords are under investigation by The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for a steering issue. Allegations of Accords suddenly losing control without warning have led...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1987 Subaru GL-10 Turbo 4WD Wagon
By the second half of the 1980s, Subaru had moved beyond being known only for tiny, hilarious econoboxes. While American Subaru shoppers could still get front-wheel-drive cheapmobiles at that time, the...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2003 Toyota Prius
It took many years before the first (non-wrecked) Toyota Priuses began showing up in the big self-service car graveyards I frequent, partly because Toyotas tend to hold together pretty well and partly...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1980 Toyota Celica Supra
In 1970, Toyota introduced the world to a pair of cars based on a new platform: The Carina sedan and the Celica sports coupe. The Carina was sold in the United States for just the 1972-73 model years...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier Wagon
Chevrolet built Cavaliers for close to a quarter-century, selling something like five million units. If you count the all the other J-body siblings sold around the world (including some really weird...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2005 Pontiac Vibe, Gambler 500 Edition
Several hooptie-centric road rallies take place every warm season in Front Range Colorado, including the 24 Hours of Lemons Rally, the Rocky Mountain Rambler 500 Rally, and the Colorado Gambler 500...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1987 Nissan Pulsar NX XE
When the “Datsun by Nissan” Sentra first appeared in the United States in 1982, it replaced the cramped Datsun 210 in the econo-commuter role. A sportier (and quirkier) car based on Sentra’s chassis...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1979 Volvo 245 DL With 338,475 Miles
Ever since I began my effort to document some of the interesting machinery that shows up in car graveyards, the quantity of discarded Volvo 240s has remained steady. Back in the late 2000s, I’d had an...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1994 Toyota Previa LE with 376,407 Miles
Ever since the 1998 model year, Toyota has sold a big, American-style minivan with the engine in the front and cupholders throughout the interior. Prior to that, though, American Toyota shoppers...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1985 Mazda 626 Luxury Sedan
The original Mazda 626, sold here for the 1978 through 1982 model years, was a rear-wheel-drive machine that looked quite European in a Peugeot 504-ish way. Its front-wheel-drive successor was...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1996 Subaru SVX
One great thing about living in Colorado, where new residents are issued a dog and a Subaru when they arrive, is that I can find examples of just about every Subaru model sold here since the late 1970s...
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