we've decided to do another junkyard crawl, but this time, we're going to focus on the later-model stuff that should be occupying yards coast to coast. There are tons of useful parts and pieces ...

Claim: Automaker Henry Ford scavenged junk yards ... parts out of cheaper materials. There is a story about the late Henry Ford that illustrates the application of this strategy in the car ...

Looking beyond your exact model can save the day ... This is also your chance to upgrade your mid-level car with junkyard parts from the fancier one that wasn’t actually much fancier.

The traditional junkyard ... Useful parts are hard to find. Of course, useful is a relative term. If you're in need of parts for an Accord, Civic, or Corolla, no problem. But finding a car with ...

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I owned an extremely hooptie Mark IV Sprite with Toyota 20R engine swap about a decade ago, and I would have been very excited to find a parts car like this at a cheap U-Wrench junkyard.

This isn't the earliest junkyard EV I've found from the modern era of real production cars with advanced battery technology. That honor goes to a NiMH-battery-fueled 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV I spotted ...