November 1, 2012 from the 60’s!!

October 1, 2012 This is a first for me!  A published poem about a junkyard! For Hoppe, that means the poems in his newly released book Diamond Plate (Obsolete Press, $10.00) should appeal as much to the mechanics he grew up with in the Michigan Rust Belt as to his peers in the…

September 4, 2012 Many DYI’ers want the option of pulling their own parts from auto salvage yards for even more savings!! It takes a lot for an industry with more than 8,000 businesses and $22 billion in annual sales to change direction. That’s what’s happening now in automotive recycling, where self-serve salvage yards…

August 1, 2012 Hyundai Motor Co is recalling some Santa Fe SUVs and Sonata sedans for separate air bag issues, U.S. safety regulators said Monday. In the United States, Hyundai is recalling 199,118 Santa Fe SUVs from the model years 2007 to 2009 that were made from April 2006 through July 7, 2008,…

July 1, 2012 This is the kind of negotiating that a car buyer could get used to. Through Monday, eBay is selling at least 10 new cars per day in a very unique way: The asking price for each vehicle starts at MSRP—and then drops by $500 every hour until somebody buys. Starting…

June 1, 2012 Toyota has long been the world’s largest automaker, but it might not be the most valuable. A new report from market research group Millward Brown suggests that BMW has overtaken Toyota as the automotive sector’s most valuable brand. The new ranking comes from a report called BrandZ Top 100 Most…

May 1, 2012 Great little story out of Muncie on bringing fruitful land back from a former salvage yard! Work has begun on a plan to re-vegetate Car Doctors, a former auto salvage yard on Burlington Drive adjacent to the Cardinal Greenway. Revegatation is important in preventing erosion by water and wind and…

April 1, 2012 it looks like this!!

February 1, 2012 When people drive by John Ramsay’s home in Clover they may see a pile of junk in his side yard and Ramsey would agree with you. “It’s junk, just junk,” said Ramsay. But he also sees much more. “I can get maybe $40 to $45 for this transmission and I…