Carroll Shelby is worshiped for building the fastest Fords on the planet and admired for creating a handful of fascinating Mopar products, the greatest of which may well be a one-off Shelby-ized truck prototype known as the Street Fighter Rampage.

Collectors thought the car squirreled away in some designer’s garage, but the reality is it’s been in a California junkyard.

Even worse than seeing it baking out there in the California sun is knowing that it can’t even be sold whole, due to it not having any legal papers. Oh, it hurts.

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The rains came down and the floods came up – leaving local streets filled with vehicles stranded and soaking wet inside engine compartments and past floorboards.

A State Farm spokeswoman said the insurance company received enough auto claims Aug. 25-26, mostly from flood, to declare Virginia a catastrophe.

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He calls himself a “junk man” and a renegade of sorts in the industry that he said he fought his way into and now leads with the largest supply of the scrapped inner-workings of cars in one place.

Meier grew up in Whittier with short stints in Fontana and Ontario, the son of a truck driver who would sometimes pick up loads from the massive food distribution warehouse in Riverside that would eventually become home to The Recycler Core. The nearly 300,000-square-foot facility, which stretches 1,000 feet in length, fits 7 to 8million automotive parts. The aisles, packed with matching parts, resemble scenes in the original “Star Wars” film from 1977 when the heroes find themselves in peril inside an intergalactic trash compacter.

“I wanted to do something I believed in. I wanted to recycle,” he said.

He doesn’t drink. He doesn’t smoke. One of his only vices may be buying too much of the commodities he sells just in case a customer might come along and need a hefty supply of manifolds, a part for a Model A or Ferrari or any other core part for a model of car, foreign or domestic, he said. And he has a fondness for the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” of the Disney universe for its warning that despite the character’s ability to wield great magic, it can all end fairly swiftly if not controlled.

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This guy has some serious talent and what a great idea, instead of junking this:

He turned it into this:

This is taken from somewhere in Poland!

This story illustrates the dumb wrong way to acquire junk cars! Four people were arrested Friday for allegedly attempting to steal a junk car to sell for scrap, and one of the four was also charged in a previous similar case, police said.

The detective said the four were at someone else’s property on S. Jefferson Avenue on Friday and were loading the vehicle onto a trailer when a relative of the owner saw them and called police.

A report by Officer Ryan Moore says the suspects had tried to load the old vehicle onto a trailer, but left when they saw the owner’s relative.

Detective Gragg said the “come-along” pulling equipment the suspects were using had broken and they left to get more equipment.

Interesting article written up from Ottawa!

A federal program to get old clunkers off the road had a bumpy start.

That’s one finding in an appraisal of the Retire Your Ride program, which ended in March.

An evaluation completed in February suggests there were plenty of potholes in the program’s early days.

The Conservatives announced the so-called scrappage program in 2008. It offered Canadians incentives, such as public transit passes and small amounts of cash, to junk older vehicles.

Environment Canada hired Ottawa consulting firm Goss Gilroy to evaluate the program shortly before it ended. The Canadian Press obtained the report under the Access to Information Act.

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With the prices of scrap hitting new heights it seems criminals have been opting for the more easy prey of old junk cars!

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating a recent rash of scrap metal thefts occurring in rural parts of the county.

“This stealing of junk cars has become a real issue,” he told 2News Wednesday morning, saying the price of scrap metal is high and because of this “junkers” are making money.

Stolen from properties in rural areas around the county and in adjoining counties have been a number of broken down junk cars. Scrappers have been trespassing unto property, loading up cars, then heading off to the scrapyard where they will leave the cars for cash.

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Anel Do?a Entegre Geri Gönü?üm Endüstri, Turkey’s first electrical and electronic waste recycling company, has established Turkey’s first junk car recycling plant, investing a total of $20 million.

The Otokumbara recycling plant aims to regain junk cars to the country’s economy. Anel Do?a targets to recycle annually some 100,000 vehicles. The company is expected to establish 23 waste processing plants in different regions of Turkey by 2020.

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Gotta love this junk car!  Anyone want to arrive at the prom in this baby?