In v1.0 of the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox, the sound came via a crappy Audiovox AM/FM/cassette deck, sold originally as a cheap dealer-installed upgrade for Chevy Berettas and purchased as ...

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Not wanting to run 120VAC wiring up to the garage's gable area and having a desire to take advantage of all that free sunlight, I sprung for a pair of U.S. Sunlight solar ventilator fan kits. I found ...

The traditional junkyard is dead. R.I.P., dear junkyard. We shall miss thee. A change has been under way for the last decade or so, and we've noticed it at the self- service junkyards we frequent in ...

Junkyards are awesome. Besides being full of interesting and potentially useful machines, junkyards are an essential part of the automotive ecosystem. One of the largest junkyard chains, LKQ Pick Your ...

Given enough time and money, a skilled builder can turn pretty much any car into a drag racing monster. But transforming a hunk-of-junk Camaro into a dragster that can run in the 11-second range using ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

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 ...