Jim Biggs, yard supervisor at B&F Towing Co. in New Castle, Del., is getting ready to destroy a 1997 green Nissan Pathfinder SUV that looks in pretty good shape except for some wear and tear. “They’re ...

While some cars live long lives as collectibles, others are doomed to the scrap heap. This might sound harsh, but some new cars are just dead on arrival. There are some cars that somehow made it onto ...

Most of the time, the cheapest way to get a complete engine/transmission setup with all the harnesses, computers, and other bits that make an engine swap work is to buy a wrecked or ugly donor vehicle ...

Equipment: 2,300-horsepower auto shredder made by American Pulverizer Co.; shredder downstream separating equipment; material handlers made by Exodus Machinery, Northshore Manufacturing and Terex ...

Six people have been arrested in a Jacksonville police sting targeting the illegal purchase of vehicles that were then crushed as scrap. The arrests were made under a year-old law requiring that any ...

While some cars spend decades in junkyards waiting to be saved or to become donor vehicles, others don't get that lucky and end up in the crusher. This 1987 Bentley Mulsanne had a similar fate and ...

A CAR which ignited while being crushed is believed to have caused the major fire in a scrapyard in Dublin yesterday afternoon. A spokesperson for Clearway Scrapyard in Ringsend said such an incident ...

Back in July, my colleague Lora Pabst reported how a Ford truck belonging to a Fridley couple ended up in the crusher before they could even report it stolen. The company that crushed the car was ...