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Studebaker Champion or Peugeot 404? Vast Colorado Junkyard’s Inventory...
When I heard from a certain Renault 4CV racer that the inventory of the ancient Seven Sons Auto Salvage wrecking yard in Brighton, Colorado, would be up for auction today, I headed up there in full...
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Merchants of Speed: The Men Who Built America’s Performance Industry, by Paul...
I’ve got this intimidating stack-o-car books to review— it’s been five months since the last one— and so I figured I’d skim them all and pick out a few winners. I cracked this one open, got hooked...
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Down On The Junkyard: Time Stops At Ancient Colorado Yard
Most of my junkyard-prowling experience has taken place at the modern-day self-service yards, where the inventory turns over fast, prices are standardized, and 90% of the cars on the yard tend to be...
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Down On The (Two) Mile High Street: 1947 Dodge Fire Truck
The street-parked old cars I photograph in my Denver neighborhood live at one mile elevation, give or take a few feet. Drive about 100 miles southwest from here, however, and you’ll end up in...
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When You Need a Sensible Tow Vehicle: Cab-Over Ford With...
It’s always good to have friends with way crazier more ambitious vehicular projects than one’s own not-making-much-forward-progress Hell Projects. Rich, captain of the Rocket Surgery Racing...
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Corvairs, Kaisers, and Cadillacs: Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard Is a Mile...
That AMC Matador Barcelona we saw last week was quite a Junkyard Find, but it represents approximately 0.01% of the staggeringly tempting potential Hell Projects in this particular Colorado yard....
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Junkyard Find: 1948 Pontiac Hearse
As I’ve mentioned before, Colorado is a hotbed of recreational hearse activity. This means that today’s Junkyard Find— spotted at the Brain Melting Colorado Junkyard— might be able to find someone...
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Junkyard Treasure!
After I visited the Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard last month, I couldn’t stop thinking about the car project I’ve been wanting to build more than any other (including even a Zaporozhets with a Tatra...
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Junkyard Find: Horizon Blue 1949 Kaiser Special
Since I’m now shopping for some sort of postwar American sedan for a foolish road-racer project and the ’51 Nash Airflyte in the Brain-Melting Colorado Yard isn’t for sale, I decided to pay more...
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Junkyard Find: 1941 Plymouth Special Deluxe Sedan
When I first visited the Brain-Melting Colorado Junkyard earlier this year, I was keeping my eyes open for early postwar Plymouth sedans. I’ve always liked the look of those cars, with their...
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Junkyard Find: Old Truck Door Signs of Colorado
I found a nice assortment of truck door signs of the 1930s through 1960s at this old-school wrecking yard north of Denver last year, and I just had to shoot a few more at this yard south of Denver last...
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Behind the Garages At Sears Point: Treasure Trove of Hell Projects!
I visit Sears Point aka Sonoma Raceway a couple times a year as part of my gig as Chief Justice of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court. That means I do a lot of roaming around the facility, in search...
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Down On the Farm: The General’s Troops Wait For Orders In Wisconsin
I was born in Minnesota, my wife is from Wisconsin, and I have a job that ships me to the Upper Midwest several times per year. For all these reasons, I find myself in Door County every summer, eating...
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