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The Junkyard Life

Roadkill @davidfreiburger

I wrote a whole editorial column about how junkyarding isn’t what it used to be and ended up convincing myself that, actually, it kind of is. See, from when I was a teen all the way into the ’90s as editor of mag, the local gearhead world had a whole culture built around the local Pick Your Part yards. In earlier times it was no big deal to hit the yard and grab a

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