The material appeal of the automobile junkyard goes beyond the search for second-hand parts.What happens to automobiles after they are retired but before they are processed as scrap? In this fascinating history, David N. Lucsko takes readers on a tour of salvage yards and wrecked or otherwise...
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After really tasty shrimp and grits at the in-laws it was back on the road for an epic drive. We stopped for lunch in very rural West Virginia, where poking out from a small roadside junkyard I saw a white Volvo 1800S. How did that get there? While we were at the local diner the...
Junkyards, gearheads, and rust: salvaging the automotive pastBook reviewsNonfictionE-booksAutomobilesRecyclingScrap263p bibl index afp ISBN 9781421419428 cloth, $44.95; ISBN 9781421419435 ebook, $44.95 Digging through scrapyards, salvage yards, junkyards, and back yards, historian Lucsko (Auburn Univ...
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